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US Senators and the Battered Wife Syndrome

Posted by Mantic on Friday, May 25, 2007 9:19:24 AM
A recent "Potomac Watch" column by Kimberley Strassel in the Wall Street Journal describes the success of Sen. Chuck Schumer in his quest to make Republicans look bad.  It is an interesting concept.  The Senate Republicans have always looked weak, even when they were in the majority.  Good Ol' Boy Lott and the wimpish Frist were the face of the Republican Senate. 

As the Dems castigated Bush with every daily news conference, the Senators occasionally got up and said a few words in defense, but with the aid of the mainstream media, those words were drowned out and the message never got out.

When it was time for the Senators to take a stand, they supported the privileges of office more that their party.  Earmarks, pork, lobbyist payoffs... all are essential parts of the role of being a Senator.  Proposing, passing and making sure rational, coherent conservative legislation was being consistently passed, were not actions of particular interest.  Lott was the worst.  When challenged about pork, he was obstinately in favor of privilege.

Now as the Dems are in the majority, the Republicans only sit back and take it and take it some more.  They are drawn into the web of masochism, abuse at the hands of Senate Dems.  It's like they were battered wives.and keep supporting the outrageous behavior of their abuser.  Stockholm Syndrome might work too.  Identifying with their captors.  How else to explain  Senator John Kyl throwing in with the Shamnesty crowd.  Come to think of it, President Bush, himself, isn't unaffected.

Conservative Republicans have tried to elect representatives and presidents that can advance the cause.  Instead we get to Big Government Bushes who have, in the main, damaged our party.  We have also gotten a Congress, both houses, that look to privilege and re-election for their sustenance and are in denial that there are large swaths of the country that look upon them as the lowest of the low.

Republicans should have created a HUGE stink about Representative Murtha's antics on the House floor when he bullied Rep. Mike Rogers and told Rogers unless Murtha's back was scratched, Rogers wouldn't get any earmarks at all... period.  This is intimidation and extortion of votes and supports, brazenly displayed.  It was a disgraceful demonstration by the arrogant House Dems.  Yet the Dem support of Murtha was virtually total when the Republicans tried to censure his disgraceful act...  Murtha gloated. 

All the Republicans can do is cower and cuddle up to their "man" the Dems and support them.  They lack the will and fortitude to call abuse, abuse.  The Republican National Committee needs to put some backbone in their charges, Congress.  Yet all I get from the RNC is a request for financial support of a group of yo-yos who want to destroy America through limitless immigration.
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Bush - Relentlessly Weakening America

Posted by Mantic on Friday, May 18, 2007 9:27:33 AM
Two big developments this week significantly weakened America.  Development #1 was the highly touted bi-partisan immigration bill and #2 was the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank.  Let me first say that President Bush has been stalwart in the War in Iraq.  That is not an area where he has been weak.  No, these are political developments that show how irresolute Bush is on a number of fronts as shown be the two following events.

#1.  The bipartisan immigration bill is a travesty.  It has shown how sloppy the governance of the country can be when a number of people want to railroad a bill through.  Senator John Kyl of Arizona has, surprisingly, is a supporter of the bill, yet when all of the big guns came out yesterday to trumpet their triumph, he neglected to show up saying that HE HADN"T READ ALL OF THE MEASURES OF THE BILL AND COULDN'T COMMENT.

The expectation is for the Senate to vote on the bill without having the entire bill available to read at the time of the vote.  This is outrageous behavior.  Yet the President wants this bill so badly, he is out there smiling and feeling victorious. 

The bill itself?  It is surrender to the illegal aliens in this country.  Many of the supporters of the bill claim that there are teeth in the enforcement provisions and that, with good intentions of some and the cynical bad intentions of others, tough enforcement will be meted out before amnesty.  They are calling it more like parole than amnesty, but to the common guy on the street, it's amnesty.  People who have broken the law to come here, will remain and have their presence legitimized.

Our border and immigration enforcement is not run efficiently as it is.  A number of the Fort Dix would-be murderers were here illegally... expired visas.  They held jobs, ran businesses, were stopped by law enforcement and nothing was done.  Just times that by a few hundred thousand and you have porous borders and lax (in the cases of sanctuary cities, intentionally lax) enforcement.  High level bureaucrats in multiple agencies seem to have the view that illegal immigration is OK, so enforcement can be lax.  From the top down, the countries security is compromised by the Bush administration.

#2  Paul Wolfowitz has succumbed to a palace revolt by international parasites who comprise the bureaucracy at the World Bank.  Trumped up charges, publicity leaks, false testimony, incredible amounts of ill will have been used to oust him.  Here a U.S. citizen who has served his country well and by all accounts managed the World Bank in such a way to increase the integrity of a corrupt, self-serving insititution is attacked and all Bush can do is put up a weak defense.  Wolfowitz gets virtually no public help from the Secretary of State nor the Secretary of Treasury in his battle.  In some respects the attack on Wolfowitz is an attack on America's pre-eminent role in the world.  ... and what does the Bush administration do?    Blink.   That's what they do.

The U.S. should get mad and impose conditions on the institution that uses taxpayer funds.  The U.S. puts in 1/6 of all money funded by the bank... the largest contributor of all.  Yet, the World Bank expects a blank check.  As it has been pointed out in a number of articles (The Wall Street Journal has been particularly good on this issue), the bank bureaucracy sees its mission as shoveling money out the door, not enabling the world's disadvantaged.  Wolfowitz was dedicated to the later.  A clash of cultures.  Yet we did not fight hard enough for him.


President Bush and his administration need to keep their eye on the ball in the waning months of his term.  It does the country no good to fight for freedoms and integrity in Iraq, when you are weakening the very fabric of the country at home.
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War is more than an angry face

Posted by Mantic on Sunday, May 13, 2007 10:35:43 AM
If the Global War on Terror were just putting up with demonstrations of angry zealots, there would be some question as to there being a war at all.  If the Global War on Terror was waged in the same fashion as the perennial anti-West demonstrators at G-8 summits and other international events, there would be some question as to there being a war at all.  The big difference is that War is more than just an angry face... more than seething hatred and emotions boiling at the surface.   It is the perpetration of violence.

The Mainstream media and other leftists seem to think that most of the anger in radical Islam that shows itself as shouting faces full of hate towards the west can defused by hand holding and singing Kumbaya, James-Baker-style (or, if you will, State Department-style).   This works when dealing with demonstrators alone.  It doesn't work when a vast network of Islamofascists are tirelessly working to utterly destroy Western civilization and replace it with world-wide Islamic domination under sharia law.

Every morning the paper talks about Coalition soldiers and innocent Iraqi civilians killed in Iraq.  Yet, we do not get the statistics for the enemy killed.  We only get the sensationalist, yet short, articles on some big Taliban or Al Qaeda leader being killed or captured, such as happened this morning when the No. 2 Taliban leader was killed in Afghanistan this weekend.  We have no idea if we are making progress in the Iraq War.

Make no mistake, angry faces are hostile.  Barking dogs do bite.  War kills.  War is all about killing, domination, territory, both mental and physical.  However, like a sports contest, the intensity by which the game is played can make up for a relative lack of skill.  The angry face increases intensity.  When the feckless Democrat policy is defeatism, it can only whip up the enemy.  Victory in a war is when the other side is bloodied in a big way.  Losing a battle, 9/11, Madrid's train bombings.  When the Democrats decide that we need to run away from Iraq, such positive reinforcement for radical Islam will again motivate more angry faces.

Emotional intensity is contagious.  Every victory is a motivator.  Every defeat is a motivator.  Every act is a motivator.  The only way to combat an enemy that is so bound up in hatred and anger is to show strength, dominate and deomoralize them.   That has worked in the past to suppress radical Islam.  

Radical Islam can only be suppressed, not eradicated.  We cannot as a nation or civilization destroy a world religion, but we can and must suppress the angry faces.  We cannot allow violence to follow the exhibition of angry faces.  We must relentlessly pursue those whose goal is the active eradication, though violence and intimidation, of all other world religions and our Western civilization.  War is more than an angry face, it takes more than talk and good intentions to wage a war and win a victory.
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