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Sep 20, 2007
A Bunch of Candy Asses
That was the term that my high school football coach used when the team didn't perform to his level of expectation. Even if you've never heard this colorful phrase before, you can pretty much tell that it's not uttered as a compliment.
We heard it and we felt shamed. We knew that we weren't the sissies that the term implied, but we also knew that we hadn't performed well and should figure out a way to play better.
With that in mind, I would like to use that very descriptive epithet and call the U.S. Senate a bunch of candy asses!
How else to explain the sham vote on Senate Amendment 2934? They can't pass the Webb Amendment that would require all troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan be sent home for periods equal to their deployment times.
Neither could they pass a motion to suspend debate on restoring habeas corpus, a legal right dating back to the mother f*****g Magna Carta.
They can, however, get up on their soapboxes and moralize over and condemn the freedom of speech. It seems they all got their knickers in a twist after MoveOn.org ran this NY Times ad (PDF document) questioning General David Patraeus's honesty in his testimony before Congress last week. Apparently they think that MoveOn doesn't have the right to make such criticisms of the good general or any other member of the U.S. military who may be playing loose with the truth. The purpose of their little charade was supposedly:To express the sense of the Senate that General David II. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces.The result, however, was a 72 to 25 drubbing of the 1st Amendment.
So another day passes that they fail to force the hand on this administration's lies, distortions, and deceptions. But free speech has been safely chilled by our moral guardians on the Hill.
Now is not the time for political theatre. Now is the time to be doing anything and everything necessary to end our military occupation of Iraq. Simply put, this is not how a supposedly freedom loving democracy behaves. I'm sure they all feel proud and happy that they can say they took a stand against the haters who would dare criticize our military commanders in time of war. Is there a another time to criticize them?
It was not, as they assume, patriotic to pass this resolution. It was authoritarian. It was censorious. It was done in a bold attempt to stifle free speech and avoid the awful truth that Congress gave this president the authority to do what he is doing in Iraq.
Oh, yeah! Thanks again Bob f'ing Casey for going along with today's little passion play. With Democrats like you, who needs Republicans.
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