The Left’s Reaction To Reid’s “We’ve Lost” Statement

For reason’s I don’t quite know how to interpret, the KOS seems to be looking for excuses for  Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) “the war is lost” statement instead of toasting with French champagne and blunts.

Some have questioned his rhetoric and his choice of words, calling it a gaffe. But what if Reid had carefully chosen his words? What if his intention was to spur debate, or even further, to forward the debate beyond the question of this supplemental funding bill and the squabbling over it?

If it was his intention to ‘spur debate’ then it is safe to say that the senator is a blooming idiot.  What else can you say about someone who would cause a negative effect on troop morale and help the enemy, all for the purpose of spurring debate? 

From what Reid said, it seems the rabid left is getting ‘what they paid for,’ to use their words after the 2006 election.  Is it an indication that even they are beginning to see that, as more and more people hear what they are really about, they are turning people off with their message and tactics?

First Black GOP Chairman

Meet Glenn McCall, the first black GOP chairman for York County, South Carolina.

“People feel that just because I’m African-American, I should be a Democrat,” McCall, 52, said Monday, two days after being elected without opposition during the county party convention.

“I feel I need to stand on my own convictions and values.”McCall, currently the only black GOP chairman statewide, said the party’s platform on issues such as abortion and gay marriage resonate with him. He said his faith drives his politics.

McCall hopes more black conservatives will get involved with the GOP. Here Here

France Goes To Run-Off Election

With neither candidate getting over 50% of the vote, France’s presidential election will be decided in a run-off election on May 6.  Nicolas Sarkozy, characterized as the pro-west, pro-capitalism candidate got 30.44 percent of the vote and Segolene Royal, the socialist candidate got 24.79 percent of the vote.  The French people now have a stark choice before them.

But don’t expect that the runoff will produce the same outcome.  Royal had a significant opponent, François Bayrou, a centrist candidate who got 18.31 percent of the vote.  The determining factor will be where that 18.31 percent chooses to hang their hat.  

They each have their views on how to save the French economy.  Sarkozy’s idea is through capitalism and by reducing taxes from 60% to 50%, and have more flexible weekly work hours.  Royal, on the other hand, wants to spur the economy by increasing the minimum wage by 20 percent and adding half a million government subsidized jobs and a shorter work week, more holidays, more benefits, less employer autonomy.

What Sir Winston Churchill said:

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Here’s hoping the French people will see that the Sarkozy ideology will be their best bet for whatever they think ailes them.

Islamofascists, The Elephant In The Room

Suspects v. Christians, What?  More evidence that the so-called religion of peace extends its influence into the media, this CNN article (buried in the World section) can’t seem to identify the religion of the murderers.  They call them suspects.  However, the three people who had their throats slit were properly identified as Christians.   This PC crap is masking terrorism and the scope and scale of it.  Don’t you think it is time to quit ignoring the elephant in the room? 

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Eleven suspects in the slayings of three Christians at a publishing house in eastern Turkey were charged with murder Sunday, court officials said.

The three victims — one German and two Turkish men — were tied up and had their throats slit on Wednesday at a publishing house in the town of Malatya that was at the center of protests by some nationalists because it distributed Bibles.

related: Burnt offerings on the altar of multiculturalism

Pensacola Mourns Loss Of One Of The Blues

On this day, and in days to come, our prayers go with the family of Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis, a Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis, the Blue Angels' No. 6 pilot, was killed Saturday when his F/A-18 crashed at an air show in Beaufort, S.C. native of Pittsfield, Mass.. Kevin was piloting the F-18 Blue Angel  number 6 when it went down Saturday during an airshow in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Pensacola loves the ‘Blues.’ They’re all family in Pensacola. Our prayers are also with the rest of those who make up The Blue Angels; all the pilots and families and everyone else that is a part of the squadron.

Blue Angels spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Garrett Kasper said the team will return to Pensacola this afternoon.

“We will regroup,” he said.

Miraculously there were no other fatalities.

Dems Out Front With Defeat

Watch how senate majority leader Harry Reid supports the troops.  Trouble is, it’s not our troops he is supporting by comments like this one,  “this war is lost.”  Can you think of a better al Qaeda recruiting tool than the current bunch of democrat leaders?

Signs that the ‘surge’ is working has caused Reid to get out in front of defeat.  They own defeat.  In their own perverted and political way, they see defeat in Iraq as a victory.  Under no circumstances now can they allow or facilitate a victory in Iraq.

Outside of the blogosphere, have you seen this monumental statement adequately covered in the ‘news?’  Of course not.

related: Thomas Sowell, Dangerous Demagoguery

I Give Up, What’s Better Than Independence?

The United States is co-sponsor of a bill in the United Nations that could lead to Kosovo’s independent State status. Currently they are wards of the ‘state.’

Kosovo, a province of Serbia, is administered by the United Nations under U.N. Resolution 1244, passed in June 1999 when a NATO campaign drove Yugoslav Serbs out of Kosovo, halting years of violence and human rights abuses.

One would think that a country’s chance to move from a provisional government to an independent state would be great news. Right. Amazingly, this bill is the first sign of something happening with actual bi-partisan support. Is it bi-partisan or bi-polar? Tom Lantos seems to say yes it’s a great idea, ‘shaped with wisdom and patience.’ Then he says that he would have preferred something different. Something different? Does oppression sound better? Or is he referring to the tried and true ‘can’t we all just get along’ foreign policy of appeasement and submission and genocide?

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Tom Lantos (D-Ca) said the Kosovo proposal appears to have been “shaped with wisdom and patience” by Ahtisaari.

“Clearly, this is not a perfect solution,” Lantos said. “I would have preferred something different. But there is no better settlement in sight. There is no more time to wait.”

What did Tom Lantos, House Foreign Affairs Chairman, have in mind for ‘something different’ than a chance for independence for Kosovo?

Dems New Tone: Us First, Then The Troops

Remembering we are war, not the one between the Democrats and Bush but the one between us and the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan,  the Democrat majority leaders insist on playing the role of Commander-In-Chief and have drafted a war appropriations bill to prove it.  The bill will end the war, not win it.  And this delay in funding the troops is already having its effects on the troops, the same troops that you will hear them say they support, and its not good.  Meanwhile, according to al Qaeda, Iraq is a great place to learn how to be a terrorist.  It has become their university of terrorism.

Seems like the Democrat leaders of today are the only ones who don’t see a terrorist problem in Iraq.  Either that or they just want to lay down the welcome mat for the terrorists upon our premature exit.  Don’t know about you, but the notion of a Democrat Commander-In-Chief makes me feel less safe.  Much less safe.   Its no wonder they also liked the ‘pretend’ Secretary of State Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to the Middle East.

Belly up to the counter. Politics are on the menu and Ross is on the grill.