You are right. What a bunch of panicky wusses. I have never seen such a thing. If this is what the GOP is now calling leadership I don't think I want any part of it anymore.

Just as the president starts to defend himself this is what he gets from his supposed bretheren?

No one should be surprised when the senate swings Democratic in 06. And we have Frist and Warner to blame.

Amen, Amen, Amen. I have read you for quite awhile now, never commenting, but really enjoying your writing. You have written what I am thinking, but can't put into words. The Senate is full of absolute elitists. As each day goes by these so called senators have gone from adult to teenager to preteen and now babies. These fools aren't even good enough to use training wheels. I would love to see the President do as you suggest. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

I agree with you one hundred percent. They stab him in the back while in China. Dump the leadership now and anyone voting yes today not one vote not one dime for them.

Hey George,

I know that you are reading this.
Frank is right. You know he is right and you know what to do.

Here is what I emailed to the Senators that voted for it.
Senator,
I am not a one issue voter with one exception the War On Terror. Passage of the Warner amendment today was a great victory FOR OUR ENEMY'S AND THE CUT AND RUN LOBBY. I will no longer support any incumbent that voted for it I will also no longer contribute money to the Republican party. How could you betray your base the President the troops and the Iraqi people Senator?

Sincerely

NOT ONE DIME!

As a retired Army Sergeant I must commend you on your restrained language.

I agree with you completely. This is one of the lowest acts by the Senate since they pulled the rug out from under the Vietnamese in 1973.

If these Motherf___ers ever want to see another dime of mine they had better grow a pair. Wimping out only encourages our enemies.

I think your post has just the right amount of bite to it. Clearly this is an "extraordinary circumstance" which calls for strongly worded and expressed disgust. I've written a letter to Frist that is only slightly tamer than yours, hoping he'll read it all the way through. However, I did call him the Chief Dumbass.

Three generations of Navy Chiefs. I'm impressed. Thanks for your service.

I didn't serve in the Navy. My Father and Grandfather did.

Both My Father and Grandfather were "black gang" on the same class of Destroyers, the Fletchers. My Grandfather was a "plank owner" on the original USS Fletcher. My Grandfather served from 1920 to 1960, my father from 1956 to 1970. When the last of the Fletchers went to the breakers, that was the end of the surface Navy as far as they were concerned.

This is not exactly a high point in American history. The Republican cowardice is even more breathtaking than the duplicity shown by the Democrats. What does it take for this to stop?

There's a Fletcher class in Boston that is open to public tours. I was kind of surprised how much of the gear aboard was identical to that still in use on my ship (an FFG 7 class). The thing I disliked about though was the sonar room all the way forward and below. It'd be a little too fun in rough seas.

Amen to that. And that's not even mentioning the fact that in just one month, one month!.. they are having their elections under their new constitution. Would it have killed anyone in the Senate to wait on this until after then, let alone to wait until the President had returned?

Hi -

Amen. This has been bothering me no end over the last several weeks, and while I am not one to despair - far from it - things like this have been disheartening.

And it seems like that is exactly what they are supposed to be. And what the hell are the distinguished members of the Senate and House doing about it?

Diddly squat. And that is the most disheartening thing of all...

Great blog, and thanks for the post. I'll have to link to you once again... :-)

John

What the hell is Warner playing at, both with this ridiculous cut and run amendment and then the other one asking for some new "report" from the Pentagon every 90 days? They already get 900 reports a year. More than three a day. And this will help how? Doesn't he think Rumsfeld and his staff have enough to do without making more busywork for them?

As the Secretary said yesterday, I hope somebody bothers to read them, but my hopes aren't high.

Lieberman did a better job yesterday standing up for the war and the administration than Warner. Now that's a shame.

I was shocked when I read this happened. How often does the military and executive branch have to "brief" this group of windbags? Allow the President to do his job!!! There is no such thing as a true republican in the senate today. They are all poll driven, money spending, camera hogging jackasses.

Varifrank,
Please stop taking my brain and shaking it until the words fall out on the pages of your blog. It hurts. Although, it's nice to read my own thoughts.

could not agree more. bravo zulu
cpo ret.

> Lieberman did a better job yesterday standing up for the war and the administration than Warner.

Lieberman is the only prominent Dem I know of (perhaps Zell Miller) whom I'd consider voting for.

following is the test of a letter sent today to the firking wusses in the Senate. Republicans only. I won't was words on Dhimmicrats.

Senator,

Re: The American Surrender Resolution of 2005

I am named for an uncle who gave his life in the Pacific in 1942 for the freedom of this nation and its principles. My father lost a lung to bunker oil in the waters of the Pacific in 1943 for this nation and its principles. I carry shrapnel from two combat wounds and wear a Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat “V”, Navy Commendation Medal with Combat “V”, and two Purple Hearts acquired while defending this nation’s principles on the rivers of Vietnam in 1968 and ‘69. I believe this grants me moral authority to say what follows.

I finally became a committed Republican in 1972 when a Democratic Congress voted to defund support of our allies in South Vietnam. That act of moral cowardice and treachery to our founding principles led to the death of millions in the killing fields of Southeast Asia.

Your vote yesterday in favor of what I’m calling the “American Surrender Resolution of 2005” is a travesty unparalleled in post-Vietnam American history. Your cowardice in face of an electorate deliberately misled by Democrats and a traitorous National Media is beneath contempt. It will lead directly to the death of now uncountable Americans and Iraqis and their graves will lie directly at your feet. Senator, you are a moral coward and the worst type of political panderer.

This vote provides direct aid and comfort to our avowed enemies. Thus Senator, you have no right so serve in elective office. I will work tirelessly to assure you are removed from office at the earliest possible date. I will spare no treasure or waking moment in this quest and anticipate the moment I can spit on your political grave.

I do commend with all honors the 13 Republican senators who stood up against the me-too cowardly Republican leadership: Bunning, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, DeMint, Graham, Inhofe, Isakson, Kyl, McCain, Sessions, Thune, and Vitter. You should look to them for the courage you obviously lack.

Disrespectfully,

G. Thomas Mortensen
USA S/V Anticipation
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

*sigh* Time to make sure the 2006 Republican primaries are competitive in every state that has a Republican senator up for re-election, I guess.

What do they do, remove their brains when they swear them in? Reid and Warner both ought to be slapped, hard, preferably by the nearest Iraqi.

I called Sen. Colemans(R Minn) office today and told him I was scraping his bumber sticker off of my car.
Ouch.

Bumper sticker - It was late

I agree with almost everything you said. When will the "Republicans" start standing up for the folks who voted them in?

My one disagreement? I've met a few Marine Gunnies and Tops who could hold their own with a squid CPO in the vocabulary department :p