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Couldn't agree more - a vote for surrender. So sad.

So, all they have to do now is cut the funding for military spending and we cannot sustain even our modest troop levels in Iraq. When we have to withdraw, things are only gonna get worse and we'll have screwed up something. No one in the Middle-East will trust us, not even Israel. This, of course, will give a$$holes Kim Jong-Il and Hugo Chavez plenty of ammunition to try and bully us.

Anyone wanna take bets on how long it will take the Demoncrats to turn Homeland Security and other 'civil liberty disrupting' organs around to search for 'homegrown terrorist' (aka anyone that legitemately owns a firearm)? Pelosi has such a hardon for Gun Control, along with her shrewish friends like Hillary, that they are gonna offer up stuff that makes the Brady Bill look tame in comparison.

As an American, I can only pray that this country doesn not retreat.

End of story.

Eric in Hollywood

You compare an address to a joint session of Congress to an impromptu speech given to supporters on Election Night by the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives? Very silly. It smacks of hysteria on your part. Though I guess that's understandable.

Bush's speech on September 20, 2001 was, sadly, the high point of his Presidency. From there it went downhill. Rapidly. All the way into the abyss we find ourselves in today.

And that's why the People voted the way they did. They said, enough with Republican incompetence. Enough with Republican corruption. Enough with Republican stupidity. Enough with Republicans trying to impose their narrow views on the world on the rest of us. We the People said it loud and clear and all over the country. Enough was finally enough.

The voters mucked out the stalls. I was giddy watching the results, seeing how many embarrassments to our nation were being swept from the national stage. I can't say how proud I was casting my votes for Bob Casey and Jason Altmire, knowing that I was doing my part to rid my state of Rick Santorum and Melissa Hart. I'm proud to be a Pennsylvanian. Proud to be an American.

We did our jobs yesterday. When you get politicians who are incompetent and arrogant and corrupt and venal and stupid, they're supposed to get fired. Yesterday many, many, many of them did.

You called the Democrats the "party of decadence, dishonor, and decline". Yesterday the voters showed that you have it exactly backwards. It wasn't Democrats chasing after Congressional pages and strangling their mistresses. It wasn't the Democrats who lied and lied and lied in the leadup to the war in Iraq. It wasn't the Democrats who forgot about bin Laden and instead invaded Iraq, a catastrophe that has left thousands of our soldiers dead, tens of thousands wounded, our military in a precarious state and hundreds of billions wasted. And Iraq itself is a nightmare, untold thousands are dead, the nation torn asunder, and the terrorists you worry about so much are using our involvement there as prime recruiting material. As complete a failure as is humanly possible.

These are the reasons voters rejected Republicans en masse last night. They did an historically terrible job. They failed the nation, utterly. Nancy Pelosi will be first woman Speaker of the House. Harry Reid will (when the Virginia recount is concluded) be the Senate Majority Leader. No more Frist. No more DeLay. No more Santorum. No more Weldon. Actual Congressional oversight. Democrats with subpoena power. Gridlock. Compromise.

It's Morning in America. We finally, FINALLY woke up. What a good message we sent to the rest of the world, that the American people are smart enough not to not longer trust their governance to a group of fools and cowards and knaves. I think I'm gonna go buy an American flag and wave it around. We have much to be proud of today.

Mean Gene,, you need stemcells for a brain.

We sent a message to the world that says:
"You can always kick our asses because America has the cancer known as moonbattery, COME AND GET IT WORLD, we got YOUR back!"
-democratic national party.

America fighting genocidal maniacs is an embarrassment to Mean Gene.

If you've serfed the blogs today, you will find that the moonbats, after twelve years in hiberation, are imerging from their caves and are as sniveling as ever.

However, there is a bright side. We will now hear sunshine and roses from the MSM as the Democrat sychophants regale us with: NOTHINGS WRONG TODAY TO REPORT. RIGHT?!!

The Republican Party became just like the Democrats creating a huge drug benefit program instead of dealing with Social Security and Medicare reform, spending like drunken sailors and ignoring border security. The voters decided to punch them in the nose. Lets see if they respond positively, if they do they will retake the House in 2008 along with the Presidency.

The only good thing is Bush will finally unsheath his Veto Pen if the the Pelosi led Moonbats get too uppity.

As dissappointing as the Republican led Congress has been, the Moonbat Led Democrats are 10 times worse.

Bush is a Big Government Republican who definitely will NOT veto many Dem efforts at further expansion. He never met a spending bill he didn't like, and already he's intoning about "reaching out" to Dems.

The minimum wage is coming.
Entitlement expansion is coming.
Harriet Miers 2 is coming.

Bush is a joke. Wake up.

Ooh, zing! I need stem-cells for my brain! I'm against fighting "genocidal maniacs". This is the best yinz can do? Not the slightest attempt to refute my comment? Of course not. There's no way for you to refute it. Silly insults are all you've got left. They leave no mark.

Odd that MB is so gung-ho to go after "genocidal maniacs" when Osama bin Laden (you know, the guy whose organization attacked us on 9/11) is still walking the earth. I'd prefer that the military might of the United States be directed against those who attacked us, instead of cooking up theories about the WMD-less and contained Saddam Hussein. I'd much rather have seen a trial featuring bin Laden in US Federal Court for the murder of 3,000 Americans than Saddam, as monstrous as he was and is.

"Now the party of decadence, dishonor, and decline — a party that stands primarily for tucking our tail between our legs and running in fear from our terrorist enemies — has been handed control of Congress."

Sorry, the DEMOCRATS won last night, not the Republicans.

Decadence: 15 GOP House members under criminal investigation, four resigned this year under scandal or because of a criminal conviction, two were implicated in soliciting sex from minors, their party leadership is under FBI investigation for covering up a possible pedophile in their midst...

Dishonor: It was the GOP House Majority Leader who said last week it was the troops, not the President and his politicians, who were to blame for failures in Iraq (parroting a line by Condi Rice from earlier this year)

Decline: The GOP leadership has more than doubled the amount of pork barrel spending since coming to power in 1994, and has increased ties with lobbyists.

Tuck tail and run? It was former Sen Tom Daschle (D-SD) and the Democratic leadership which authored the War Authorization Act of 2002 to go to war with al Qaeda and other terrorists who attacked us. It was the GOP President who ordered the US military to cut and run at Tora Bora.

It is the Democrats who have a 41 point plan to expand the fight in Afghanistan and other terrorist nations while increasing security at home -- something the Bush administration has opposed since the 9/11 Commission issued it's findings two years ago.

Hey Mean,
Your right, I didnt refute your comment, just added what I think it includes. Whether we have obl or not, the MAIN thing is that an effort should continue to be made everywhere to fight these guys because you know obl and his friends will continue to blow up women and children. Here is a little secret you wouldnt get from CNN, jihadies have declared war on civilians of this country and want any breathing American to be dead. Im not too concerned with who is sticking who in the ass or what you like to smoke, just dont want our country ending up like Europe, entirely fearful of the will of global political correctness as defined by the Hizbulla and Hugo Chavez types. By your vote, you (and your party) do.

MeanGene, sweet response- complete with ad hominem arguments. Clearly a full-feldge democrat. Firstly, there is no proof that there were any "lies" in the lead up to the war- unless you have some kind of information to which no one else has access. I don't know if you have noticed the decades-old mass graves that are being uncovered daily throughout Iraq? Or perhaps we have forgotten about the gassing of the Kurds only a few years back? The WMD were likely moved to Iraq's friendly neighbor, Syria. And if they weren't, it was not a "lie"- it was the administration acting upon intelligence derived from its intelligence community. In any case, what of the other reasons we are at war? I.E. deposing the most ruthless dictator in all of the middle east, attempting to establish a legitimate pro-western regime in a hostile part of the world and the spread of democratic ideology to countries that are otherwise governed by totalitarian fascists? Or do you think ruling through murdering your population, and allowing anti-western ideology to run rampant through the world's most important energy region is ok?

I understand that many democrats have a difficult time understanding the nature of warfare these days, but the fact is, the number of american casualties sustained over a 4-year campaign is incredibly low. Compare it to Vietnam, or Iwo Jima aLONE in WWII. We're in a war, and when you're at war people die. This ain't paintball.

I would like to see the democrats solution to that- because as far as I can tell, they don't have one. Perhaps this represents only the ineptitude of their campaigning, but as far as I can tell, that is only part of the story. By the way, pulling out would result in Darfur and Rwanda patched into one. Can you imagine those people trying to govern themselves at this fragile point in time? No way. In face, this is when they need us most!

The fact is, regardless of how the war has gone, we are there, and we have an obligation to finish it. If you read the speech that Bush made after 9/11, he pretty clearly stated the magnitude of the task at hand.

I also think you're pretty off in saying that the republicans have "forgotten" about OBL. The fact is, there is a finite amount of resources you can use to track one guy- thereafter you hit diminishing returns of the resources you put to work. It's a fallacious argument to say that the war in Iraq has diminshed our ability to hunt him. If anything, it has given us a foothold to work from. By the way, I don't want to "try" OBL, for that leaves too much risk of some liberal lawyer from the ACLU to get him off scott free.

Anyhow, this has been rambling, but I felt bad that no one bothered to respond to your post. I suspect no one took it very seriuosly. I have to get back to work (I work a 15 hour day- I'm sure you would love to see all that value I create taxed away and squandered on the bureaucratic and the inept... but thanks to elections in 2 years, after the dems have accomplished nothing and made fools of themselves, not to worried a trampling of my property rights, so I'll continue to work hard...) .

"Ad hominem" means "against the person". Meaning you ignore what the person says/stands for and instead makes a personal attack. I did no such thing in my previous comments. But let me make one right now, against you, Mr. "ihatetaxes". In response to your comment let me call you a "scuttlingly little coward and complete scumball". The reason for my insult (I only wish I could say it to your face) is your most outrageous and totally loathsome statement (the rest of your post is formulaic nonsense). To wit:

"I understand that many democrats have a difficult time understanding the nature of warfare these days, but the fact is, the number of american casualties sustained over a 4-year campaign is incredibly low. Compare it to Vietnam, or Iwo Jima aLONE in WWII. We're in a war, and when you're at war people die. This ain't paintball."

Yeah, I'm sure the soldiers who have died in Iraq take great comfort in the fact that, statistically speaking, their deaths don't add up to much when compared to bloodier wars. And their friends and families probably take great solace that cowards like you don't think much of their loss because, after all, there aren't that many of them who are suffering and grieving. There aren't THAT many kids who won't get to know their fathers. What's the big deal?

And despite the fact that these soldiers died in a war started on false pretenses and waged with almost breathtaking incompetence, a war against a nation that didn't attack us, by the way...well, brave, brave people like you don't have a problem with that. Spilt blood, spilt milk, it's all the same, right? So what that the war was pointless? So what that the war only aided our enemies and those who want to hurt us? Hey, casualties are "incredibly low"! Only a few thousand dead (so far). Only a few tens of thousands wounded (so far).

Why are the numbers of casualties your basis for military success? Who are you, Josef Stalin? Now THERE was a leader! Twenty million killed in WWII! More Soviet soldiers died in ONE BATTLE (Stalingrad) than the US suffered in the entire war! You must think our GIs got off too easy!

Iwo Jima? Come on, I can't believe that battle had enough blood to satisfy you. Vietnam, now we're getting somewhere! Over 50,000 dead. I'm sure my mother would agree that in war, people die. Like her brother, my uncle, who died in Vietnam. "Oh well!" Mom would say with a smile and shrug. My cousin, too, who never got to meet her father. "People die!" she'd say. "Like my dad!"

You, sir, are a disgusting human being, and I use the words "human being" only because you apparently have the ability to manipulate a keyboard. "This ain't paintball". Tell you what--the next time there's a military funeral near where you live, go up to the spouse or the parents of the deceased and say that to their faces. Not that you are in any way worthy of being in the presence of people who have made such a sacrifice.

You understand "the nature of combat these days". You say, "This ain't paintball." You revolting coward. You sniveling idiot. Is that "ad hominem" enough for you?

Gene, you're right that every soldier's life is precious, and even one unnecessary death is one far too many. But you want to pretend that our troops are dying for nothing. They know better, or they wouldn't be over there risking their necks for us as volunteers. No one can credibly deny that Saddam was a genocidal maniac and a long-term threat to our security, or that replacing his dictatorship with a democracy was a critical aspect of our strategy for neutralizing the threat of Islamic terrorism before a big mushroom cloud replaces New York City. Thank you for providing a textbook example of the sanctimonious infantilism we know as moonbattery.

Actually "Mean Gene"- "ad hominem" means "supporting your argument by attacking one's character as opposed to one's logic."

Which is all you have done, in both of your posts.

Clearly you missed the crux of every point I made. You essentially attacked my moral right to use the stats I cited. The, in typical emotional and flagrant liberal style, proceeded to attack me. This, of course, in lieu of attempting to refute the points I made, and conveniently dismissing them as "formulaic nonsense." Well done- in terms of how the dems do things anyhow. Pretty weak response. You're just flat-out dumb and spineless. Which is not an "ad hominem" argument, but simply a fact (in order for a statement to be "ad hominem," there first must be an argument, which this ceased to be the second you wrote anything- I have embarassed myself by responding to such drivel).

With people like you running the country, perhaps our soldier really are dying for nothing.

Get a job man.