Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Foot in Mouth Award
House Speaker Lectures Former POW McCain on Sacrifice and War
Is Dennis drinking again? I mean telling John McCain about sacrifice and in defense of continued fiscal responsibility. Shameless.
Hastert Money quote:
"If you want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda (two Washington area military hospitals). There's the sacrifice in this country. We're trying to make sure that they have the ability to fight this war, that they have the wherewithal to be able to do it."
John McCain spent five years in the Maison Centrale (Hanoi Hilton) during the Vietnam War, he understands sacrifice and fiscal responsibility.
(Sorry, link function not working you'll have to cut and paste.)
NOTE TO LEADERSHIP: It's ok to listen to McCain, he's a Republican.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAKIIO1GUD.html
Is Dennis drinking again? I mean telling John McCain about sacrifice and in defense of continued fiscal responsibility. Shameless.
Hastert Money quote:
"If you want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda (two Washington area military hospitals). There's the sacrifice in this country. We're trying to make sure that they have the ability to fight this war, that they have the wherewithal to be able to do it."
John McCain spent five years in the Maison Centrale (Hanoi Hilton) during the Vietnam War, he understands sacrifice and fiscal responsibility.
(Sorry, link function not working you'll have to cut and paste.)
NOTE TO LEADERSHIP: It's ok to listen to McCain, he's a Republican.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAKIIO1GUD.html
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Since when is advocating for LESS GOVERNMENT SPENDING acting like a Democrat...oh yes, any time during the last three years.
Governing is about compromise (although reducing government spending rather than increasing it at a record pace shouldn't be a compromise position for republicans.) and winning elections requires assembling a wide array of similar views. You'r mistaken if you believe that Republicanism is monolithic. Many of us want strong defense, fiscal responsibility, morally guided leadership but reject granting government authority of personal issues, or see the Bible as the Primary resource for legislatiion. Personal issues like birth control, intimacy and abortion shoudl be governed by faith not goverment.
Me thinks that you Bronson, are of the Club for Growth/Moral Majority wing. That's great. But there are a bunch of us that are closer to the middle and embrace more libertarian principles. According to Frank Luntz (Republican Pollster Superstar) the as the country grows more diverse and urbanized it also grows more Democratic. Leadership should listen to the wide variety of opinions in the supposedly (all though ever smaller) big tent.
When the Supreme Court stopped the voting Bush won Florida by just over 500 votes. Sharp tacks to the right on FMA probably has already lost him the 25% of the self identified gay vote he got in 2000 (roughly 1 million) and his and congresses fiscal mismanagement and tolerance expanding ineffective government have people like me scratching thier heads.
That's what puzzle's me about your comments. You sophmorically lump all Dems together as Dum-o-Crats when in fact some of them (like Liberman or Miller) are more in line with your ideological bent and folks like Hagle, Specter and Snowe (who probably might as well be communists for all your concerned). Bush and the leadership needs to return to the middle-right and dust off the ideas they presenting in contract with America is they don't want a repeat of 1992.
Again, thanks for your thoughts.
Governing is about compromise (although reducing government spending rather than increasing it at a record pace shouldn't be a compromise position for republicans.) and winning elections requires assembling a wide array of similar views. You'r mistaken if you believe that Republicanism is monolithic. Many of us want strong defense, fiscal responsibility, morally guided leadership but reject granting government authority of personal issues, or see the Bible as the Primary resource for legislatiion. Personal issues like birth control, intimacy and abortion shoudl be governed by faith not goverment.
Me thinks that you Bronson, are of the Club for Growth/Moral Majority wing. That's great. But there are a bunch of us that are closer to the middle and embrace more libertarian principles. According to Frank Luntz (Republican Pollster Superstar) the as the country grows more diverse and urbanized it also grows more Democratic. Leadership should listen to the wide variety of opinions in the supposedly (all though ever smaller) big tent.
When the Supreme Court stopped the voting Bush won Florida by just over 500 votes. Sharp tacks to the right on FMA probably has already lost him the 25% of the self identified gay vote he got in 2000 (roughly 1 million) and his and congresses fiscal mismanagement and tolerance expanding ineffective government have people like me scratching thier heads.
That's what puzzle's me about your comments. You sophmorically lump all Dems together as Dum-o-Crats when in fact some of them (like Liberman or Miller) are more in line with your ideological bent and folks like Hagle, Specter and Snowe (who probably might as well be communists for all your concerned). Bush and the leadership needs to return to the middle-right and dust off the ideas they presenting in contract with America is they don't want a repeat of 1992.
Again, thanks for your thoughts.
And another thing. The McCain-Hassert example is just one of many times when ANY criticism of the president is couched in terms of being disloyal to the country in a time of war. It's one thing to be Michael Moorish about stuff, but in this case McCain was simply saying "Hey wait a minute folks, why do we keep on spending, spending, spending...we're republicans." Attacking his loyalty rings hollow and is just plain wrong. Read his book, this man knows service and loyalty and despite his fathers position of privilege served and did time in Vietnam.
Tssk, Tssk GOPer's me think you doth protest to much.
Only in the Orwellian world of DC can Mcain or even (ughh) Kerry who both served in Vietnam, both were injured and in McCain's case spent five years in a horrible prison (al Abu Grahbi), be painted as dis-loyal and Bush can skip serve and claim to be a great war leader. This is the stuff that can be used to chip away at Bush's credibility. Besides, it seems that he's determined to push McCain into joining the Kerry ticket.
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Tssk, Tssk GOPer's me think you doth protest to much.
Only in the Orwellian world of DC can Mcain or even (ughh) Kerry who both served in Vietnam, both were injured and in McCain's case spent five years in a horrible prison (al Abu Grahbi), be painted as dis-loyal and Bush can skip serve and claim to be a great war leader. This is the stuff that can be used to chip away at Bush's credibility. Besides, it seems that he's determined to push McCain into joining the Kerry ticket.
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