President Bush Calls Democrats Cut and Run Obstructionists
Terry Trippany on Sep 28 2006 at 4:31 pm | Filed under: Feature Article, Politicians at Work
Oh oh. This should rile the worker ants on the left. President Bush launched his big ol’ foot into the middle of the anthill today at a GOP fundraiser when he said “The greatest danger to America is not the U.S. military presence in Iraq, but rather a premature withdrawal of U.S. forces from the war-torn nation”.
Why does it take a major election to call the dems to the mat? This is the kind of message the Republican leadership should have been pounding for the last two years.
President Bush wasn’t done.
Five years after 9-11, Democrats offer nothing but criticism, and obstruction and endless second guessing,” Bush said. He said the Democratic Party — the party of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman — has become the “party of cut-and-run.”
If Democrats really believe the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has made America less safe, then they should make that case to the American people, Bush said.”
Saddam Hussein’s regime was a serious threat,” Bush said, adding that had he not been removed from power, the former Iraqi leader would still be killing innocent people, pursuing weapons of mass destruction and firing at U.S. pilots.”
Meanwhile, Democrats were busy looking to make Iraq a bigger issue for November. Rep Jane Harman, minority leader Nancy Pelosi and the always bloviating Ted Kennedy went on the attack by accusing the administration of dragging their feet on an upcoming assessment of Iraq. Apparently the NIE didn’t quite do the trick so the Democrats are looking for another report to cherry pick all the bad news out of.
“With Iraq on the brink of a full-scale civil war, preparation of this intelligence assessment of Iraq cannot be delayed any longer,” Kennedy said. “With more than 140,000 Americans under fire every hour of every day in Iraq, it’s wrong to slow-roll this assessment.” - Ted Kennedy
Tony Snow had an answer for the frothy democrat suggestions that they were shelving the report until after the election.
“No, they don’t have one on the shelf,” White House press secretary Tony Snow said Thursday, adding that John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, just started it a month ago. “You don’t pull an all-nighter,” Snow said. “It’s not like a college term paper that you slap together.”
It is hard to take the Democrats seriously nowadays. They don’t have a plan, can’t quite cope with good news on any front and their view of Iraq is one of defeat. The President was correct, put up or shut up.
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Deranged troll alert. I had to delete the last comment by “slimpy”. Sorry about that. I am always willing to debate but the comments have to meet a certain standard, not be laced with swearing and most importantly, they must have a point.
A couple of things. First, we have a Republican controlled Legislature and Executive. This should not have been an issue for as long as it has been. I can understand now, since it’s election time. But last year, and the year before (after elections)? That’s just ridiculous. If Republicans in office (Executive or otherwise) used as much energy toward their work as they did against Democrats, then Iraq would probably be a non-issue.
Second, to say that those who think differently than you want to “Cut and Run”, or they are traitors to the U.S. (not mentioned in this article, but has been mentioned in articles posted at this blog), grossly over-simplifies the issue. The Democrats want a way to measure progress in Iraq. We currently do not have such a measurement. The best way I can justify this position is through a business comparison. Say you are manager of several employees. Your employees do a great job, and your business receives several clients from word of mouth advertising. You know there is always room for improvement even though you are successful. You start measuring their call times with clients, and how many sales they get. You offer suggestions on how to improve themselves. How would you move forward with improvement without a measurement of where they are at? And I would pose the same question with concern to Iraq.
Look, I can’t speak for ALL people, but I think I can safely say that the majority of us want success in Iraq and in the Middle East. I think we can start moving forward if we spent less time fighting opposing parties on every idea they propose for peace.
Certainly we can find a compromise somewhere…
Hi Stacye,
Welcome back. I agree with you that we should measure progress in Iraq and make adjustments to win. Unfortunately that is not what is happening on the Democrat side of the aisle; at least publicly.
Measuring progress is is a far bit different that setting artificial timetables that simply serves as a talking point for the Democrats. More importantly it gives the terrorists hope that they can succeed by defeating the will of the American public.
Please take a look at my synopsis of the pentagon report that was released at the beginning of September. This report talked about successes as well as failures. In particular it detailed where we have made great strides and where we need to improve. Rather than look at that report publicly from an objective point of view Democrats used it as an opportunity to highlight the bad news in the report.
Worse, this was something that hit all the newspapers. Very few made more than glancing reference to the items that I point out. When they did it was simply to claim objectivity. We all know what it really is though and it is far from objective.
The same exact thing happened with the World Opinion Poll report.
This goes beyond partisanship. It is an active attempt to undermine the current administration. This is the angle I am hoping to emphasize in my articles.