Boo Hoo
House minority leader John Boehner, who recently said of Democrats “I wonder if they’re more interested in protecting the terrorists than protecting the American people.”, got all weepy today over the “solemn” debate on the President’s politically-motivated Iraq war escalation. Later, as part of his contribution to the debate, Boehner noted that “al Qaeda and terrorist sympathizers around the world are trying to divide us here at home”. Of course, Rep. Boehner would never try to be divisive now, would he?
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Wow, Rep. Boehner (my Representative I’ll have you know) is such a sensitive guy, huh? Which reminds me — Boehner’s side says that if there’s a vote in Congress against the escalation, that the enemy would be bolstered and our troops would be demoralized. Two questions need to be answered then:
1. Since when did we care what the enemy thought?
2. Since when did our troops become so sensitive?
Comment by mick — February 13, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
Manipulative little twit!
He’s 57 going on 5.
Comment by Doobie — February 13, 2007 @ 8:37 pm
Gosh, Mick, you have my sympathies. I felt bad enough just being from Ohio, but at least he’s not my rep. Let’s give the guy a break, though; maybe he’s crying because of the ineptness of his party in creating this on-going fiasco the last four years. Then again, is crying supporting the troops?
Comment by bob48burg — February 14, 2007 @ 4:35 am
Gosh, Mick, you have my sympathies. I felt bad enough just being from Ohio, but at least he’s not my rep. Let’s give the guy a break, though; maybe he’s crying because of the ineptness of his party in creating this on-going fiasco the last four years. Then again, is crying supporting the troops?
Comment by bob48burg — February 14, 2007 @ 4:36 am
I heard Boehner say on Tuesday:
We also know what al-Qaeda thinks when America continues to occupy a country it invaded without provocation, when it turns hundreds of Muslim civilians into collateral damage, and when it participates in a sectarian civil war.
They think we’re an imperial force who will do whatever we want regardless of who gets hurt. They think they need to keep up the fight. And they think, “Yay, more recruits.”
But I guess we’d rather give them more reasons to hate us than let them think we’re a bunch of pussies.
Comment by Cris — February 14, 2007 @ 11:14 am
In a conversation with another blogger at
Random Observations
The person I was talking to made the following comment, relevant to the “they care more about the troops” comment made by Bush.
Can anyone shed any further light on this topic?
Yes, in this case, Bush is saying they have bad priorities, or priorities he disagrees with: they’re just more interested in “special interests” than national security, in his view.
First, we must debate whether the charge is true or even at least plausible. Then we can decide whether Bush’s statement possibly reflected or merely avoided Democratic arguments and actions.
In this case, Democrats were saying they would block any bill which didn’t ensure all new Federal employees were union members (unions are a major supporter of their party). This was also a stance union leaders were demanding at that time.
Unions are, last I checked, a special interest group. And yes, it was clear the Democrats were blocking the bill for precisely that reason: they even said that was their sticking point.
Comment by Ryan — February 14, 2007 @ 5:45 pm
To clarify,
Bush said that Democrats cared more about the troops than national security. The cited blogger argued that this was, demonstratably, the case.
Comment by Ryan — February 14, 2007 @ 5:47 pm
The guys who are “protecting the terrorist” are the guys who sent the military strength of the nation to Iraq rather than to Afganistan where the terrorist actually were.
Comment by Kamachanda29 — February 16, 2007 @ 11:52 am