I am no fan of Tom Delay, and this speech of his contains some rhetorical excesses, but he is spot on here:
will never call the Democrat Party unpatriotic, but I will call their current leadership unfit to face the serious challenges of the 21st century.
Just look at their rhetoric about the President’s State of the Union speech.
Saddam Hussein
Matthew
Great Jumpin’ Jeebus, the Hammer nails it. I don’t like DeLay as a leader, but he can out-bomb-throw the Dems anyday.
PG
Howard Dean says the president intentionally misled the American people.
This is a complicated accusation. Bush definitely had a theory before he had evidence — that is, his resting assumption was that we needed to oust Saddam Hussein, and then he tried to find evidence that would make the American people agree.
Had you polled the U.S. in August 2001, and asked if Saddam Hussein was trying to build chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, you probably would have gotten a majority saying “Yes.”
Had you then asked, “Should we launch a ground invasion, followed by reconstruction, of Iraq in order to oust Hussein that will cost $220 per American for the combat phase, and potentially more than that for the reconstruction?” I bet the majority would have said, “No.”
At that time, Bush himself was not demanding regime change; he was talking about “smart sanctions.” He knew that there was not sufficient political will for an invasion.
No responsible leader could have permitted him to remain in Baghdad.
Yet Bush was prepared to do exactly that, until 9/11 created enough fear in Americans that he could convince us of the necessity of the war. Does that make him irresponsible?
Or does DeLay mean that only an irresponsible leader would have permitted Hussein to stay in Baghdad once Americans could be convinced otherwise?
Dick Gephardt the other day said we were less safe and less secure than we were four years ago
Robin Roberts
I heard a “loopy” anti-war protestor blame America for the ills of the world just yesterday. They aren’t hard to find.
PG
You heard someone say that the entire United States is to blame for the ills of the world, or you heard someone say that the *government policies*, or excess resource consumption, or indifference to suffering of America was to blame for something?
M. Scott Eiland
“You heard someone say that the entire United States is to blame for the ills of the world, or you heard someone say that the *government policies*, or excess resource consumption, or indifference to suffering of America was to blame for something?”
Either way, it’s whiny, hostile nonsense that deserves nothing but contempt.
Terry
Couldn’t agree more than with the sentiments expressed above by Mr. Eiland. The time has long passed when we should even listen to idiots who can find nothing of value in the US other than presumably their own miserable existence.
Jonas
I have to agree with M. Scott Eiland as well. No US government policy could ever be to blame for any problem, and to even suggest so should get you deported.
Kathy K
There are government policies that need a serious going-over. Those aren’t what’s being talked about. What’s being talked about is past policies that we can’t do anything about — and what’s being said is that because we did something (in hindsight) stupid in the past we have no right to correct it in the present.
No one wants to deport you. We’re just laughing at you. And that’s what’s driving you nuts, isn’t it?
Emperor Misha I
Finally, a Republican who isn’t too busy “being nice” and “bipartisan” to tell it like it is.
That fact alone makes him OK in my book, because I’ve had it up to here with sniveling RINO babies.