President Bush pleads while Congress sucks their thumbs
A comment on the President’s State of the Union speech last night…
I viewed an average speech, certainly not spectacular nor poor…….a good speech with some hope and one has to admire the President’s courage standing fast in the face of attacks from within and without.
The event was spectacular, however, in one aspect…watching the RINO’s and Democrats “thumb sucking” throughout most of the speech…what a sorry example of maturity, competent leadership, and hope for anything positive coming out of government in the next few years…
Some viewed Senator Webb’s response to the President’s speech favorable…it appeared to me as a cocky, mishmash of ridiculing irrelevant past government actions implying President Bush was responsible for it all. Webb seemed to forget that the Iraq war was sanctioned by the United States Congress which was not all based on the WMD issue…I believe the President has gotten faulty advice and made bad decisions on the conduct of the war in Iraq, but that doesn’t mean we surrender.
The gutless ones in the House and Senate will pout, whine, and go through the motions of a “non-binding resolution” against President Bush’s troop increase with the benefit only to their ego’s, self-serving, pompous character and encouraging the Islamic butchers…
What I don’t get is if these politicians are so convinced that the President’s troop increase is the wrong thing to do, why don’t they initiate a “binding resolution” to cut off the funds for the war and do it now? Bring the troops home before more are killed, wounded, and maimed when all the Congress wants to do anyway is “cut and run. They best be prepared to fight and die on American soil.
Doesn’t it just make one proud to be an American which such a stellar group of American patriots manning our Congress?
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret