While Congress Was Voting …
… for defeat and surrender, other people were taking care of business in Iraq. Mudville rounds up the door-kicking, head-breaking, name-taking fun here.
Classical Values puts Murtha in a lineup with pre-WWII appeasers, and has a roundup on his undermine-the-troops plan here. The good news is that even most of the Dem Cong thinks he’s crazy out there. As much as they’d like to, they’re not going out there with him.
Topics: Iraq, Uncategorized, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:57 pm on Saturday, February 17, 2007
4 Responses to “While Congress Was Voting …”
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February 17th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I notice you listed morons and pols as separate categories.
If everybody knows Murtha is crazy (personally, I think he’s just a senile old fool), why can’t we get rid of him? Isn’t there some mechanism for declaring him incompetent and removing him from office? I mean, aside from convincing the voters to stop doing stupid things, like re-electing him.
February 17th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
I’m just getting around to categorizing, and its not a task to be taken lightly. Obviously not all pols are morons, but I’m thinking of taking the ones who are out of the general “morons” category to avoid insulting the honorable morons, like that guy who wrestled the shark or the guys who were caught stealing urine. It’s a work in progress.
February 17th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
The problem is that people like Murtha aren’t morons. If they were, they’d be easier to spot and stop. A true mental defective cannot help themselves and so are morally exempt (in most cases). Murtha is not morally exempt; he is a grown man who has lived and acted in the world, making his judgments and choices like all adults do. As such, his classification is a moral one. The fact is that his cheap talk causes the death of Americans who are in harms way, and encourages the enemy to keep fighting regardless of their losses. He can claim no innocence about this fact. He was a member of the military and understands this at the deepest level. That he must consciously evade and gainsay his own knowledge, so that he may garner attention and votes, is as craven an act as any I’ve seen. I call him evil. To call him a moron is to slander morons.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
“ Isn’t there some mechanism for declaring him incompetent and removing him from office?”
Rebecca, AFAIK, the only grounds for removal from Congress is either by an election recall or resignation. Certainly not on Constitutional grounds. Even that one Senator who recently had a stroke is sill on the roles as a full member of Congress.