Posted by
JayPeriod on Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:35:06 PM
In one simple vote today, the Senate showed us the character and courage of the nominees for the Democratic Party for President. In a vote, an amendment to the defense bill, none of the Democrat nominees voted to criticize MoveOn.org for it's tasteless ad in its publication, the New York Times, last week. Not one. A few weren't there, but one, Obama, was for a vote just twenty minutes earlier. Hillary clearly sided with MoveOn by voting against the amendment.
In a moment of partisan backbone, President Bush made a statement that with this vote and their silence, the Democratic leadership has chose to be more afraid of a radical group than they are of the American public and our military. Maybe this explains why they side with al Qaeda and want to make nice with them. It's just more natural for them to cower in fear of radical groups than to stand up to them.
I say that Bush showed a moment of partisan backbone because it is unusual for him to stand up to the Democrats when not running a campaign. He has spent a large portion of his Presidency working for bi-partisan support, even when he had the majority. I hope in the coming weeks and months, he will make more stands like this on important issues such as his tax cuts, social security reform and our military. He needs to do more of this calling a spade a spade.
With this act, we now know where the Democrats stand on matters of national security. They have shown that they are more interested in the input of George Soros, Hollywood and the New York Times editorial board than the American people. Their leadership, Clinton, Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, et al, has for years had the interest of their pocketbooks more at heart than our nation. Now we have them on record for it.