SubscribeWhy Are These People Smiling? - Dems Celebrate
From the wire services:
AP caption: Democrats celebrate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2007, after a sharply divided House of Representatives voted to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year.
The sad thing is we know why.
They are celebrating the country’s imminent defeat by terrorists.
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March 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 pm
At least when Pelosi is forced to wear a burqua, the rest of us won’t have to look at her smug face anymore.
March 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
They’re laughing just like they did when they voted to defeat the Patriot act, then applauded themselves at the SOTU address.
Jackasses they are … crooks.
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
The audacity is amazing from Pelosi, Murtha, etc.
They know full well this Bill is simply another ” perception ” of leadership and know full well it wouldn’t even get Senate approval nor will it get Bush’s signature.
As I mentioned earlier - more Dems in the House crossed over and voted “no” than Reps crossing over to vote “yes”. Not a good sign Madam Speaker. And the pork… which few if any outlets, sans CNN are running with - and now Fox.
They are governing through the airwaves and not in their own Chamber…
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:39 pm
The man by Pelosi’s side in the third photo is Patrick Murphy. The following has been pointed out to me:
“Patrick Joseph Murphy (born October 19, 1973) is the Congressman from Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district, an American lawyer, a U.S. Army soldier, and a professor. Murphy is also a veteran of the Iraq War and was awarded the Bronze Star.
Murphy was the Democratic candidate in the 2006 election for Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district, narrowly defeating Republican incumbent Mike Fitzpatrick…
While in Baghdad as a paratrooper and JAG Corps attorney with the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division, Murphy worked to reconstruct the justice system and helped prosecute Sheik Moyad, a lieutenant of Muqtada al-Sadr. Murphy earned the Bronze Star Medal for his seven months of service in Iraq…”
That is to say Murphy was in Iraq as a lawyer. He was awarded a Bronze star for service as a lawyer. Now he using that to cash in and he knows very well what this bill means.
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:42 pm
How the hell does a fricking lawyer earn a BS?
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:50 pm
“How the hell does a fricking lawyer earn a BS?”
Probably just without a combat “V.”
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
According to Wikipedia:
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
For a lawyer like Patrick Murphy to go into a combat zone the DNC likely put Murphy up for the CMoH.
March 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
These appallingly ignorant slobs are grinning now…..another prank pulled off much to their delight. Yeah, the bully jocks of the Congress are smug as hell…..for now. The only good thing about this is they are going to almost guarantee a total democrat defeat in 08, after people are fed up with this sophomoric crap. Grin away nancy! Pick your ass, murtha! You will not have this luxury in a very short time.
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Sweetness, who the hell is this guy John Soltz that was just on Hannity and Colmes? He is saying how much better equipped our troops were when they went to Kosovo under Clinton. Is this guy just another of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War type?
How about the skinny on this guy?
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I didn’t see the show, R05. But just from Googling:
Pittsburgh - Political Veteran - John Soltz is leading a new chorus of Bush critics. Just don’t call him anti-war. - Main Feature - Main Feature Extra - Pittsburgh City Paper
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.....id%3A24068
March 23rd, 2007 at 9:49 pm
Online NewsHour: Iraq War Veterans Take Sides in the Presidential Campaign — September 16, 2004
JON SOLTZ: Well, I mean, the first thing we need to note here is that the president is a failed commander- in-chief. President Bush sent soldiers like me to die for weapons that we can’t find.
If that doesn’t prove that he’s failed his last four years as president, frankly, I’m not sure what does. Sen. Kerry is the only one of the two candidates who has the credibility to bring allies to our side.
Our force levels in Iraq are so high that soldiers like myself, who spent, you know, an entire year… or some of them have spent entire years in Iraq, have come home for a year, and are now going back. 43 percent of Operation Iraqi Freedom Three is going to be guard and reserve forces.
This president has broken this military. And John Kerry’s the only one of the two who’s given us any alternatives or any possibility of hope. He’s the one who supports increasing the size of the army by 40,000 soldiers, not President Bush…
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb....._9-16.html
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
He’s the one who supports increasing the size of the army by 40,000 soldiers, not President Bush…
Hmmmmm…, Isn’t that what he is against now?
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Jon Soltz, the Co-Founder and Chairman of VoteVets.org, is a powerful leader in the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans community and is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From May to September 2003, Soltz served as a Captain during Operation Iraqi Freedom, deploying logistics convoys with the 1st Armored Division. During 2005 Captain Soltz was mobilized for 365 days at Fort Dix New Jersey, training soldiers for combat in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also served his country with distinction in the Kosovo Campaign as a Tank Platoon Leader between June and December 2000. Soltz is a graduate of Washington & Jefferson College with dual degree in Political Science and History.
He has completed graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He also served as the Veterans for John Kerry Pennsylvania State Coordinator. He was a lead spokesman for IAVA (then Operation Truth) and has been interviewed by the Associated Press, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Associated Press and the LA Times. He has made numerous media appearances including Jim Lehrer’s Newshour on PBS, CNN’s Inside Politics, National Public Radio and the Alan Colmes show.
He was a REMF. nuf said!!!
March 23rd, 2007 at 10:23 pm
These traitors need to all be taken out and HANGED!!! I’ve always known the DhimmiRATs in Congress were providing aid and comfort to the enemy, and now they’re bragging about it!
I’ve had it with those treasonous bags of pus undermining the US and adhering to our enemies! They did it during the Cold War, they did it during Desert Storm and now when OUR VERY LIFE AS A NATION IS IN DANGER!!! How anyone who isn’t either a fool or a complete SELL OUT could vote for these Karl Marx rejects is BEYOND ME!!! It should be plain to all but either the blind or the willfully stupid that the DhimmiRATs are THE ENEMY and SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH!!!
I swore an oath to defend my country against all enemies foreign AND domestic…and the DhimmiRATs have proven that they are the domestic enemy! I’ll do what I can to fight them…and that means at the very LEAST I’ll try to see these bums driven from office and PROSECUTED FOR TREASON, SABOTAGE, SEDITION AND PROVIDING AID AND COMFORT TO THE ENEMY IN TIME OF WAR!!!!
March 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Did a little research; seems this guy Soltz is connected to Wesley Clark’s StopIranWar.com. So here he makes a statement how he was in Iraq for a year and it was actually six friggin months in a nice cushy logistics spot. A little more research and I find that he campaigned for John Fifth Column Kerry. Nice. What the hell is he? The Iraq war’s answer to Kerry’s buddy, Hubbel?
OK, 1sttofight, what is a REMF? Remember, you’re with friends.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:09 am
R05: REMF- Rear Echelon Mother F***er
We used that in the AF, too…and occasionally had it aimed at us ;-)
March 24th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Oh, that’s great, Murtha is hugging my husband’s old first sergeant, Tim Walz. He is soooooooooooooooooo smooth. I can not stand him. At the beginning of his campaign he started a fund to pay for the soldiers to come home for Christmas. He made such a stink about the guys having to pay for their vacation transportation that people believed that it was wrong to not give the guys free plane tickets to go home. This was a disgusting political move. It was called Project Homecomming. AND..His deployment he cries about was a 6 month European vacation. He was running for the Senate and the MNNG told him that he could either run for office or be in the guards, but not both. I beleive he even had his hero John Kerry over to his house. PUKE!! He is a traitor to the soldiers he says he wants to protect.
March 24th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Could someone smarter than me explain this in plain language? Particularly on (b).
CHAPTER 9
GENERAL PROVISIONS–THIS TITLE
SEC. 1901. (a) Congress finds that it is Defense Department policy that units should not be deployed for combat unless they are rated `fully mission capable’.
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this or any other Act may be used to deploy any unit of the Armed Forces to Iraq unless the chief of the military department concerned has certified in writing to the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on Armed Services at least 15 days in advance of the deployment that the unit is fully mission capable.
Tom
March 24th, 2007 at 12:57 am
Yes . . . I saw Hannity & Colmes tonight. By the way he kept talking over Hannity (no easy task) when it wasn’t even his turn to speak he, the impression that this John Soltz left on me was he is just another big mouthed liberal . . . never wrong . . . always right.
There was a lot of “Republicans this and Democrats that” BS on the discussion of why the bill passed the House. Some say it was because Democrats “bribed” other Democrats with “Pork” add-ons for their constituents – Democrats responded with the allegations that the “Pork” add-ons for their constituents was left over from the pre-2006 mid-term Republican controlled legislative branch of the government.
What was NOT MENTIONED anywhere else except on Hannity & Colmes was the little publicized item (I believe it was Item #72 on the bill) that this bill would require a 15 day grace period for any field commanders to take any action in the field whether it was an aerial sortie by our Air Force or Navy in support of ground troops or even to call in additional reinforcements to cover troops in a tight spot so the House of Representatives could debate the issue first! I could have heard Congressman Hunter wrong - but if what he said was true in the way that I interpreted it . . . this bill would in essence have taken ALL authority away from the field commanders in Iraq (not to mention the Pentagon and let’s not forget the commander in chief) and given it to Nancy “San Fran Nanny” Pelosi and John “ABSCAM” Murtha.
Yeah – this is the way the Democrats would love to run a war!
If I am wrong or someone else saw the show differently . . . please correct me.
Democrat’s idea of a strong US Military . . . Tanks in Waco OK – Tanks in Mogadishu NOT OK!
March 24th, 2007 at 1:05 am
It means that funds will be withheld for further deployments unless a given unit has the most current available equipment (body armor, vehicles, weapons, etc.) and have been through unit training for said deployment within however long Murtha thinks should be said before those deployment orders can be cut.
I have friends in the Big Cat Litter box, and MANY have deployed without the most current issue equipment, BUT ARE ISSUED IT UPON ARRIVAL. Some units take non-modified humvees overseas, and exchange them for up-armored humvees that are already in theater, and the vehicles they took receive theater modifications from kits that are in theater. This is common practice in American military history…during WWII, troops often received better weapons and equipment from stocks overseas when they arrived in theater. Why? Because combat units had priority on all new equipment. Some units here get all new stuff before going overseas, others get their new stuff in Iraq.
What this boils down to is that Murtha, Pelousy and the DhimmiRAT/Traitor Party is trying to block the assignment of reinforcements to the Big Cat Litter Box IN DIRECT CONTRAVENTION OF THE CONSTITUTION!!! They can withhold funds, BUT MAY NOT HALT DEPLOYMENT BY THE CIVILIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF!!! This is their way of trying to get around the Constitution…or as is more typical of that Party, to use it as toilet paper.
If Bush has any cojones, he’ll veto this POS and make the Traitors pay at the polls…but I doubt he will. The Republicans have no stomach to fight anymore…if they ever did.
March 24th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Sharps - Even Rush stated that now Bush is fired up : http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ho.....guest.html
But is it a case of just a little and a little too late? I think he should have quit trying to play “nicey nice” with these “Alice In Wonderland” moonbats right after he won re-election in 2004.
March 24th, 2007 at 4:44 am
I deployed to Iraq with OIF1, with no body armor because the Army was broke under Clinton’s leadership (we had to reuse paper in our printers because we were so broke). You DO go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want. I am no fan of Rumsfeld, but a fact is a fact. I earned a Bronze Star Medal (BSM) for my duty there. For you civilians, if you do not get a V device with your Bronze Star, then it means it is for performance, not heroism. Basically it means you were of high enough rank and you did a good job in a war zone. It is a medal for service (unless you have the V) in a war zone. Any Lawyer who did a 6 month tour got a BSM. He did not even have to leave the wire for it, although odds are he did, but only in a convoy, not on patrol.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:44 am
It seems like most of the ‘veterans’ that the dnc gets are guard or reservists - which brings up two interesting points
-according to them (only I guess in respect to President Bush) that is not serving in the military, dodging the draft or a way for a rich daddy to get his kid to avoid real military service
and
-seems to be (of all the proven real Veterans) most of the ‘anti-war’ Veterans. Which to me translates to they didn’t like being called up to actually pay for all the bennies they were given.
Sooooo,
1) in time of WAR, all bets are off - Uncle Sam owns your butt for as long and to where ever and when ever he says - prior to Vietnam most ‘deployments’ we opened ended - what are now going to do, whine this down to 3 month deployments - that is no way to win a war (or even fight it).
2) that sec 1901 is bogus garbage - for guard and reserve units - there are units within the Armed Forces called AC/RC units - Active Component/Reserve Component. They go to mobilization areas (and for the Army Ft Irwin) and are the units that sign the papers that indicate a reserve/guard unit is mission capable. My husband did it - it is not a day long, week long CYA event - he was gone for months at a time. The G/R units pass the same tests that a regular unit does and with the same requirements.
A lot of the problems are 1) Clinton era military was slashed (causing the too thin), the budget was cut (equipment and maintaintence problems), 2) the Guard/Reserve are funded and covered by the State it is in (and are a different financial component from the active duty budget, as is VA) - some are better than others and the inconsistancy led to some of the problems, 3) America just went about it’s business after 9/11, it did not gear up for War as it did in WWII, and it takes time to switch businesses (which is why the same damn companies keep getting the defense dept contracts - wake up it has become a racket) but driven by American indifference not specifically cronyism (sp?). . .
Pelosi, Murtha et al have been in government since it was created - President Bush has been in DC since 2000 - I lay 99.5% of the blame for 9/11, the problems and shortfalls of this war and country on THEM not on the President. At least with this stupid ‘bill’, they have finally gone public with all their hypocracies and duplicitiy for all of America to see.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:59 am
I think Nancy Pelosi is laughing because her face is stuck like that. Murtha is delighted at two of his favorite things, defeat and pork. Sorry wrong order : Pork and defeat.
March 24th, 2007 at 8:47 am
“But is it a case of just a little and a little too late? I think he should have quit trying to play “nicey nice” with these “Alice In Wonderland” moonbats right after he won re-election in 2004.
He should have learned from his father who tried to play nice when he got suckered by the Dims into going back on his pledge of “no new taxes”. I remember from Rush’s TV show back in the day where he played video clips of all the Dims on record supporting the tax increases, then playing their hypocritical remarks denouncing the tax increase after it was issued.
The Republicans never learn and it is that one trait that irriatates me about them the most. I remember a couple of years ago on Hannity’s radio show where he had Trent Lott on as a guest taking calls. A lot of people called up to complain that the Repubs seemed more interested in making nice than firing back against whatever BS the Dims were vomiting on a daily basis. His response was that they would take the high road and the American people would clearly see what is going on.
That strategy is useless. Most of them are gutless and seem to be more concerned about how the NYT and WAPO will portray them if they fight back. Well guess what, the NYT and WAPO and the rest of the MSM will always portray them in a negative light. So what’s the point of keeping to the high road all the time. I have yet to hear one Republican (though I may have missed it) bring up Reno-Clinton’s firing of the 93 attorney generals. Sure you hear it on talk radio or read it in the blogs, but it is the White House and the Repubicans that need to open their damn mouths and barrage the press with the total hypocrisy of those bastards on the left.
Screw what the NYT and WAPO will say bad about you. Look at John Mclame. He’s spent years sucking up to the MSM as the “Maverick” and where has that gotten him? I’m sure there are quite a few GOPers in Washington or at least their aides who read this site on a regular basis and my post is pretty much for you. Grow a back bone, some balls and start fighting back. By fighting back I mean stand in front of a bunch of reporters and hammer away, not by relying on talk radio and bloggers to do the fighting for you or having the GOP web site put up some tidbits.
March 24th, 2007 at 8:52 am
I get the creeps when I look at Pelosi - she looks so fake. I can’t tell if it is because she does not know (or have emotion) so she just puts on a ‘look’ that she thinks fits the situation or if she’s had so much ‘work’ done that it makes her face look fake.
And Murtha looks awful ‘red’ in the 4th pic down - might he either had a nip of the bubbly to celebrate or is it he is (as newshound said) just so excited he got his pork and defeat all in the same bill. . .happy to be putting Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and the American people at grave risk - what a guy.
March 24th, 2007 at 9:27 am
From the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Online:
March 24th, 2007 at 10:11 am
I am sorry, I meant to say he was running for the House and he is a Rep, not a senator. Tim Walz, Democrat Representative from MN.
Wardmama, I agree that the NG is more liberal than the regular army. They are well trained and bring skills to the battlefield that regular army guys do not have. You will have full time civilian physicians, computer programmers, construction company owners, and more. You have a lot of people with divided commitments and that can be hard, but they are also people who have grown up in the area and with the people they serve with and the respect for rank and commitment to their duty is not, generally, as great as the regular army. Imagine having to salute your high school buddy and submit to his or her authority. So, with that breakdown, the respect for their Commander in Cheif is not there either. That was always a complaint I had and still do have. My husband is on his 18th month away from home and he will not be home for at least another 5, so the NG also has a lot longer deployments than the regular army. From the family side, it is a lot harder because we do not have the support of an active duty base. My closest person whose spouse is also deployed is 12 miles away. Because we have to rely on the civilian community which is not always very supportive, more wives complain and complain hard to their spouses. That can be very draining on the soldier. I have to guard against those women all of the time and I have even found the Armory lacking in support for their felow soldier’s mission, it is sad and harmful. This kind of attitude starts at the very top. I had to leave the FRG because it was a constant battle with the stay back leadership and it was so draining always standing tall for people who can’t get off the floor and stop throwing tantrums.
March 24th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
The problem with the defeatocrats is that the only goal they have is to take down Bush. They have no plan other than to create the perception that anything Bush has done or will do as bad. They have no plan to protect us other than to rely on the goodwill of people who hate us and would do anything to kill us. Gadafi has thrown in the towel, Saddam and his sons and cronies are dead. Osama Bin Laden is hiding in the most remote, inaccessible part of the world and the Muslims seem to be killing each other instead of us. Meanwhile, our economy continues to hum along and most people in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and most of the Middle East go on about our business as usual. I would say that Bush has been highly successful. As for the ill-feelings generated in other parts of the world, it is simply raw jealous envy. It wouldn’t matter what we did, as long as we are so much more successful and prosperous than they are they will feel the same way. It’s always better to be feared and respected than to be liked and disrespected. The defeatocrats are doing everything they can to cause us to be liked, disrespected and vulnerable.
March 24th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
And by the way, Nixon was a big government liberal much closer in political philosophy to Clinton than to Reagan.
March 24th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Amber - there are support groups on the InterNet. I actually had a touch of cold shoulder in the early days of OIF at Ft Hood because my neighbors all had husbands gone and it was my son I was worrying about, but every so often my husband was able to come home. I found a group online as I was having a stupid problem (financial) and was seeking help. I am still part of it, because I’ve come to view many of them as closer friends and confidants than some in my family.
I know what you are talking about within civilian communities - it was hard to ‘assimilate’ after we retired - I wanted so badly to just be back within that world where I knew how to function.
Anyway you can email me anytime if you want to - I listen to my daughter all the time (her boyfriend is over there right now). And as the stupid cliche goes - been there and done that.
March 24th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
wardmama4, thanks. I wish my husband were active duty, but instead he is full time with the guards. My community has not been too bad, there were a few heartless people, but there are a few families who have adopted us in a way and they have been great. The key to surviving is to get away from the FRG, I wish I had known that a year ago.
As for having to move off base, that has got to be really hard, kind of makes you wish our military was more of a Spartan community where the “too old to fight” could retire into the community and have other roles.
March 24th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Well, we all know why Pelosi is smiling: her much operated-on face is stuck in that clueless grin. The simple answer for why the other democrats are smiling is that they are in power, and NOTHING else matters to a democrat. That, and the fact that they’re all filthy rich of course.
March 25th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Reminds me of the photo of Chamberlain stepping off the airplane. Peace in our time. Indeed.