Cowardice Under Fire: Republicans Abandon Bush/Troops

They waited until the President was out of the country. They waited until he was in a plane 35000 feet in the air. They waited until he was unable to respond appropriately before betraying him. Then they abandoned him to the Democrat wolves. Who are they? They are the gutless 46 Republican Senators. Some are self seekers like Hagel, Allen, and Frist who have delusions of grandeur in their plans to run for President. Some are expected, barely deserving of the name Republican, Snowe, Collins, Chafee, Sununu, Santorum, Specter among others. Some are just completely inexplicable. They are names that I would never have thought capable of betraying the President-Hatch, Cornyn, Talent, Roberts, Hutchison, and Lott.

Tuesday, the Senate passed a resolution requesting that the President present a “State of Iraq” report every quarter to the Congress. It was a bipartisan resolution with just 19 Senators voting against it. For some, hardcore anti-war Democrats Kerry, Byrd, Conrad, Harkin, Leahy, and Kennedy, it was too weak a resolution for them to support. For the gutless Republicans, it was just what was needed. You just have to admire those weasely Republican Senators...Relentless, indefatigable, steady, dependable, trustworthy, pillars of strength, loyal, brave, principled, true-blue (or red in this case), stalwart, Leaders...all words that I wouldn’t apply to the milquetoast RINOs of today’s Republican Senators. Democrats-light is what they are, cowards one and all.

So who were the Republican stalwart few? Senators Burr, Coburn, DeMint, Graham, Inhofe, Isakson, Kyl, McCain, Sessions, Thune, Vitter, Bunning, Chambliss, all held the line, but of course they weren’t enough. They were mostly newly elected and therefore less corrupted, and more beholden to the President. Of course there were the two that I would have bet would be there in support of the President, John Kyl and Jeff Sessions, among the strongest and most reliable Senate Conservatives. There were some real disappointments here though, John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison are my Senators-the President’s Senators, and yet they lacked the nerve or will to stand up to the Liberal propaganda machine. I was especially disappointed with John Cornyn. I truly expected a lot more than this from him. He is perhaps the greatest disappointment of all.

This is not the way to run the country. Are we to have government by CNN poll? Is the Harris organization to be given ultimate authority to decide the policies of the government? How about it Senator Allen, have you given up any aspirations to higher political office? You may as well have, because you have just lost the Republican base with this craven vote. All of those who voted against the best interests of the nation, the troops overseas, and against the President might as well abandon their White House dreams. Ain’t gonna happen!

What is really disgusting is that, not only have the Republicans stabbed President Bush in the back, but by expressing distrust in the Iraqi efforts, they endangered the American troops by adding defeatist propaganda to the terrorist’s arsenal; Al Jazeera featured this vote prominently. Reading what that “Paragon of Republican Principle” Chuck Hagel said, it appears that the lessons of Vietnam are completely lost on him and the other gutless cowards among the Republican RINOs. Vietnam, Senator Hagel, was not,

“a national tragedy partly because members of Congress failed their country, remained silent and lacked the courage to challenge the administrations in power until it was too late."

What defeated America was not neglect by Congress, to the contrary, it was interference by idiots in Congress like you. It was not the will of the Vietnamese soldier, nor was it the will of the Viet Cong; it was the loss of will in Congress, led by the Democrat cheerleaders of the MSM then as now, spreading disinformation as news and undermining the war effort. It was the abandonment of our principles. It was the decision to cut and run in the face of adversity. What would these fools have done had they been around when D-day occurred and the losses mounted by the minute. Would they have ordered Roosevelt to report back to Congress every four weeks? Or maybe they would have just said that we were suffering too many casualties and abandon the war effort altogether. After all, Hitler didn’t attack us, Japan did. Perhaps they would have said “Leave Britain to her fate, it’s not our war.” Perhaps they would have treated France the way France treated Iraq and run interference against our efforts to fight Hitler.

Senator Frist denied that this was the Democrat “cut and run” strategy, but he was lying to himself, if not the rest of America. This is simply a case of the wimps of the Republican Party and the Democrats laying the groundwork for a pullout next year. Once more the inability of the Republicans to believe in their own party’s principles is going to hurt them next fall, and very possibly destroy them. Conservatives are growing restless at being taken for granted. If Republicans believe that they can count on their Conservative base’ s vote next fall without actually committing to conservative Ideals and principles, than they are in for a rude awakening. Conservatives are fully capable of withholding their votes if they feel they are being wasted on unprincipled candidates. There are a lot of hard-core Conservatives who would rather have a complete Democrat sweep than support these Republican pretenders. They would be willing to suffer through a Liberal Democrat administration in the near certain knowledge of a complete collapse of our society under Democrat rule. They hope to regain control of the congress and presidency following such a disaster.

I for one do not want to put the American people into this situation. I’m considering recommending a new “Conservative” party. Since this nation was formed as a republic not a democracy, we could call it...the Republican Party. Okay, okay, bad idea, already been done.

How about the 3G Party-God, Guns, and Guts...Uzi anyone?