Hugh Hewitt has a pledge you can sign up for that reads:
If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
Dean Barnett also has an FAQ on the subject.
You know how I feel that internet petitions are even more useless than internet polls, but this is a bit different in that you have bloggers (including Glenn Reynolds – though he’s not a Republican) and blog readers who tend to be more politically involved and make more campaign contributions than the average citizens making an ultimatum against the Republican leadership. And it’s gotten over 16,000 signatures so far.
I’m not one of them. I’m still of the opinion that the troop morale won’t be hurt because none of them are paying attention to the idiots in Congress. Also, I don’t think the enemy will be encouraged because by now even they have probably started ignoring their impotent cheering squad in America. So I’m all for letting the babies have their bottles (and I think President Bush should say so; actually, it would benefit the dialog in Washington if he referred to Congressmen as “babies” more often). It’s better than them doing something binding to hurt the war effort.
John Hawkins is also against the pledge, though I don’t know if I buy all of his argument that, if we do this, then next we’ll be doing ultimatums over stem cell research and amnesty. The war has always been a special issue (just look at the blogosphere to see all the bloggers who disagree over so many other topics who have united to support the war), so I don’t think extreme measure on its behalf will seep over elsewhere.
Anyway, that’s what I think. I thought I’d tell you about the pledge if you wanted to sign, though, because the first purpose of IMAO is to inform. Frankly, I’d be more interested in a pledge people could sign saying they would punch liberals in their dumb monkey faces as soon as they saw them. Then liberals would take note of all the people who signed saying they will punch them, and thus the liberals will take measures to keep their dumb monkey faces out of public. That’s something that would benefit this country.
Now that “Herself” has thrown her broom into the ring, you may want to moderate your views here on the old www, Frank. Once she becomes POTUS she is going to put all her considerable weight behind making those in the VRWC pay! Since she’s advertising on your blog (a ruse to infiltrate the enemy in my opinion) she now owns your ass and my guess is you will be writing stuff to the left of KOS after the election…or you will be sent to Camp Hillary Nutbuster!
Thank God. I shudder to think what would happen if we didn’t send more troops over there to die. The terrorists would win!
We really need no pledge to punch liberals in their dumb monkey faces. That is something that ought to be second nature by now. Maybe if we took a pledge to punch at LEAST one every day, rain or shine, sick or not.
I’d commit to that.
I shudder to think what might happen if everyone would just STFU and let the military do our MF’ing job! The U.S. might win!
Michael:
PUNCH
QUOTE:”I’m still of the opinion that the troop morale won’t be hurt because none of them are paying attention to the idiots in Congress…”
What about my morale? It pains me to see these candya$$ed morons making “gestures” and “sending messages” that have no weight, no risk, and do nothing but pander to the Cindy Sh**cans of the antiwar left.
I hope that Warner et al reap the consequences of their duplicity, denigration of the troops, and cowardice.
But I’m not angry.
Anon is on to something,
It’s the morale of the folks at home that is in the most danger, and the BM (Big Media) is using the tactics employed by Father Cronkite during and after the Tet offensive. The NVA lost on the battlefield but won the propoganda war, thanks to the BM in America.
If it weren’t for a precious few like Michael Yon, we would hear nothing about the magnificence of our troops.
Naysayers and leftists can go to hell.
Has anyone else noticed that all the Viet-Nam era Hippies, who then spent most of the last 35 years pretending to be Viet-Nam War Heros, are now back to being Hippies again?
I pledge to have wood at least 3 times a day….
IllTempered…when Hillary is elected you will NEVER have wood again!
If John Kerry had just used a little Pledge every day on that hickory mug of his, he could have skipped the botox…