Not Taking a Break, Because of the Day. It is Too Important
Unlike many people out there, I don’t think you have to take a break from politics today. Far from it. As you may have noticed, I haven’t gone for the ‘let’s all sign kumbajah’ (sp) today thing. Why? Because we just got done with 364 days of finger pointing and rhetoric that will lead to another day like the one we are remembering if one party wins in November.
I don’t want the Democrats any where near being in charge of keeping me safe. I don’t want them to control the Senate so they can dictate exactly what out intelligence community can and cannot do to track down, kill and/or bring the animals to justice and in so doing, broadcast every secret to our enemies. I do not want the Democrats to take the House because they will launch (already promised by the would be Committee Chair) impeachment proceedings and investigations into every aspect of the war on terror thus handcuffing our National Defense because the people fighting it, would be sitting in front of bloated egomaniacal Democrats who are trying to make up for voting for the war, by imprisoning the people who fought it.
I don’t want to see the future of our Congress focussed on fighting a political war at home for petty partisan reasons, when there are people trying to kill each and every American at home and abroad. I want the people who are serious about defending this nation from all threats standing between me and the bad guys. Most of the Republicans who are running this November happen to fall in to that category. I am sure there are some Democrats, but not here in Minnesota. Just look at what happened to the one Democrat who did try to defend America, he was cannibalized by his party.
All 5 Democrats (for Federal office) who will be on the ballot in Minnesota this November will fit the mold of ending the war at all costs, not winning it at any. They will rely on the UN and other failed experiments for the delivery of Democracy to keep America safe. They will trust the very governments that are funding the enemies of America to defend America.
So when people get all high and mighty about not politicizing the day, I say too F’ing late. You have been doing it for years now. So yeah, I have been political today, because of all days, this is the one people should remember where politics will get them.
Will America put its head in the sand, plug our ears, close our eyes, and scream that the world is fine? Or will we stand guard for freedom and take the fight to the restless enemy?
Exactly.
Right on, Andy. My sentiments exactly (though I’ve taken some heat for it).
Cheney agrees with you, Andy (see his comments below, which are from Meet the Press via Powerline).
“We have spent billions on homeland security. You can always find more you can spend funds on, but the fact of the matter is, I think we have done a pretty good job. And I don’t know how you can explain five years of no attacks, five years of successful disruption of attacks, five years of defeating the efforts of al Qaeda to come back and kill more Americans. You have got to give some credence to the notion that maybe somebody did something right. I think we did. I think we did a lot right.
And I think part of what we did right was to take the fight to the enemy, to treat this as a war, not a law enforcement problem, which is the way these kinds of things had been treated before we arrived. To actively and aggressively go after the state sponsors of terror, as we did, for example, in Afghanistan and Iraq. To aggressively go after those places where the terrorists might be able to lay their hands on that deadly technology they’d like to use in that next attack.
I think we got it right. I can’t say it’s perfect. Obviously, you can always look back and find things you’d like to do differently or do better. But on the broad overall strategic sweep of what we did, what we set out as our objectives, the strategy we pursued to get there, I think we have done a pretty good job.”