Democrats are Cowards

just before lunchtime on Saturday, the 19th of November 2005 by Chad

Nothing can be more blatant than that.

Representative Murtha from Pennsylvania, may be former military, and may have been decorated in VietNam, but he is a coward now.

Here are some excerpts from Captain’s Quarter’s timeline of the vote.

8:52 - The House finally voted to continue to the actual point, despite the vote from every single Democrat to run away from it. If nothing else does it, this shows the Democrats as political cowards as well as military incompetents. Why should we trust the leadership of the military to a group of people who run away from merely taking a vote?

9:00 - Rep Lantos wants “serious debate”, and he wants an interminable filibuster. That’s ridiculous. Murtha has been screaming for withdrawal for eighteen months, and we held a national election on the issue.

9:05 - Hyde and Weldon speak at length about the honor of Jack Murtha. That might make for great comity in the House, but let’s get a grip, OK? Jack Murtha has a great record of service, without a doubt. That doesn’t make his demands honorable.

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10:12 - Sam Johnson wrapped up the debate well, and the best part came when he asked for an additional three minutes to complete his remarks. The Speaker asked for any objections, and several Democrats hooted out “Objection!” However, when the Speaker asked for whomever objected to stand up for his objection — not one of them would stand up to Sam Johnson.

If that doesn’t paint the Democrats and their lack of moral courage accurately, I’d like to see a better example.

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10:35 - 403-3, the idea of immediate withdrawal gets hooted down. In another Profile in Courage, six Democrats voted “present”.

Now, my charge of cowardice is two fold. One, that they want to cut and run from Iraq. That they want us to abandon what was started.
But mostly, because I would say 80% of those Democrats in congress want to pull out immediately, but they would not go on record with their names saying that they do in a vote.

That is the true cowardice.