The Democrats are going to try and tie troop funding to withdrawal again. They’re going to fail again as opinion against the war isn’t as bad the last time they tried and failed. Do you think it ever disturbs the Democrats that there is a war going on involving life and death and their main function is to annoy everyone who are actually trying to accomplish something.
It seems like in every movie there is a character whose main job it is to make the good guys job harder. There’s the good guys, the bad guys, and then this character who isn’t for the bad guys but just serves as another obstacle for the good guys to overcome… usually a bureaucrat. I’m trying to think of a famous example, but the best I can come up with is the EPA guy in the Ghostbusters movie even though I can’t remember his name. I guess there’s a lesson there: Those characters are always quite forgettable in the end.
You’re thinking of Walter Peck, played by William Atherton who also played the annoying reporter in Die Hard that blew McClane’s cover and endangered his wife.
Figures Peck would work for the EPA, huh?
…not quite a movie, but it certainly is “in the spirit” of our do-nothing, parasitic legislature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKWM5Z1zds
I believe his name was “dickless.”
There was Captain Renault in Casablanca. He didn’t really support the Nazis but just made life difficult for everyone. The big difference between him and the Democrats is that he was memorable, likable, and eventually decided to join the good guys.
A better match would be the District Attorney in Dirty Harry. He not only turned the bad guy loose to kill again (because Harry didn’t stop to get a warrant while a girl's life hung in the balance) – he berates and hobbles the only guy that stop the bad guy. Yep, that's Democrats to a T.
Don’t forget Paul Reiser’s character in Aliens- technically on the same side, but with a secret agenda that endangers the hero(es).
…now that I think about it, there are other democrats (mostly senators) that take after Bill Paxton’s character- gung-ho at first, but crying “Game over, man!” when things “hit the fan,” as they say.
The best real life example of what you describe would be the quartermaster at the battle of Islandwanda. Zulus, thousands of em’, attacked the Brit column. Each Brit infantryman had like 20 rounds for his Martini-Henry. When he needed re-supply, he had to march to the quartermaster, stand in line and count out his emptys to get new rounds.
This was the first land battle the Brits had lost since the American Revolution. About 20 of the 2,000 man column survived.
The mayor in Jaws. Sure, he wasn’t gunning for the shark but he was basically chumming the water for the big guy.
They’re not merely in the way – they’re squarely on the side of the enemy. How does rooting for more American troops to die and for the US to lose the war not qualify them as “the bad guys”?
they’re more like the guy in The Matrix who wants to get back into the matrix, so he betrays Morpheus. i forget his name.
treason is all in a day’s work for some people.
Fishlaw, you are correct – in Ghostbusters he had no dick…
#9 Son of Bob: I call those kinda folks traitors, and in the olden days treason during wartime was a capital offense.