Thank God America is now safe from MoveOn.org.
I don’t know about you, but I’m going to feel a lot safer in bed tonight knowing that the Senate has rebuked the evil MoveOn.org. A Senate made up of lesser men and women might spend their time on silliness like trying to get our troops out of Iraq, rebuilding our crumbling national infrastructure and protecting our ports and nuclear energy plants from terrorist attacks. But not this bunch. No, sir. These folks understand that what’s really important is passing a meaningless resolution condemning a political issue ad.
And, yes, nearly half the Democrats voted in favor of the resolution. God, what a pathetic bunch — chicken and tone-deaf all at the same time.
The point here isn’t the MoveOn ad itself — an advertisement that I personally think was ill-advised. No, the real point, of course, is what the hell the Senate is doing wasting its time acting as media critic when brave young Americans are dying unnecessarily in an ill-conceived and negligently prosecuted war.
Chris Dodd hit precisely the right tone:
“It is a sad day in the Senate when we spend hours debating an ad while our young people are dying in Iraq. Now that the Senate has twice voted on this ad, it is time to move on and vote to end the war.”
Sad, indeed.
But something else that’s sad is watching so many Democratic senators reflexively peeing in their pants in fear, unable to grasp that Dodd’s position is such an obvious political winner.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:16 am
Spineless Democrats and Repugnant Republicans. All playing politics while thousands die, are maimed, live in fear, starve, bury their loved ones. It is so very obvious that they completely miss the point. Whatever decent, compassionate, humanistic impulses they once had, have withered on the vine. A few of them still care and want change. The rest have become “Politicians” inside and out. How pathetic and warped they are. How devoid of the ability to recognize what really matters. They are disgusting and irrelevant. Shame on them for taking up space on this planet.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:32 am
Larkrise is right, spineless democrats and repugnant Republicans. Lets vote for a President who, from the very first moment that our current President uttered the word war, Congressman Ron Paul stood against it. He voted against it. He may have the Repubican moniker, but he isn’t one of the “Good Old Boys”. He is not on the take, he is here for the American people. If you really want a change in this country, in how our executive branch is run, in restoring this country to a Republic, vote Ron Paul.
Our executive branch and corporations are calling the shots. They is why they are attacking MoveOn.org. Just like Dan Rather said on Larry King Live, they have way too much influence. All the primary Democrats running for the Presidency are on the take. They take corporate money especially Hilliary, but Obama does too. The Republicans also, but not Ron Paul.
Do this country a favor, vote for him. Get someone who isn’t peeing in their pants because he has courage. All you have to do is listen to him on the floor of Congress. He is a lion who through wisdom only has to roar without raising his voice.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:52 am
All weekend I’ve been wondering what this “ill-advised” ad said, and now that I’ve finally seen it, I’m still wondering what’s so “ill-advised” about it. I guess it must be the title, “GENERAL PETRAEUS OR GENERAL BETRAY US?”, since the text of the ad looks like a mostly dry recitation of facts to me. Though I thought it was more effective, not ill-advised, to stop relying on just dry recitations of facts but also put in catchy memorable emotional buzzwords that would frame the issue more effectively for speaking to people’s hearts and winning elections? In any event, since this Move On ad seems to have gotten more attention of more people than all their previous ads also aimed at stopping the war, and so might actually accomplish more than they did, that doesn’t sound so ill-advised to me.