Out with the Old

The list of has been Congressman getting out of the way to allow new blood just grew again with Chuck Hagel announcing he will retire. Hagel joins John Warner from Virginia and the embattled Larry Craig from Idaho on a growing list of Republican retirees. Is it just a coincidence that these gentleman also backed the immigration debacle?

Nonetheless, whatever the reasons I applaud these men for recognizing that their time has come. These Republicans are worthy of respect. These gentleman have heard the calls of their constituents and realized it is time to step aside. Unlike their compatriots on the left side of the aisle.

The only time you will see a Dem removed from Congress is when they are dragged away kicking and screaming by the FBI or wheeled out on a stretcher. Elderly Robert Byrd can barely speak in a coherent manner yet he continues to occupy his seat from West Virginia. Ted Kennedy has sat in the Senate so long that now his brother's children and grandchildren sit in congressional seats with him.

If we could get Congress to place term limits upon themselves I think that we wouldn't have the ineffective legislative body that we have now. I do not believe the intent of the Constitutional Congress was to create a system where representatives remain in their elected positions for life. And certainly not for them to re-engineer voting districts to make it easier for them to do so.

Senator Bin Laden (D)

Is it just me or did UBL sound like our Senate majority leader. He hit every Dem talking point including global warming. He also slammed the libs in Congress for not ending the war in Iraq acknowledging that they were elected with a mandate to do such. I'm sure that Cindy Sheehan and the moonbats must be proud having a high profile celeb like Bin Laden parroting their platform.

Seriously Folks, It should occur to the antiwar crowd that if a sworn enemy of the United States is agreeing with your cause that you may want to rethink your position. But they won't will they. It doesn't occur to them that parroting the same rhetoric as Bin Laden causes them sound like the traitors.

To them its all about "peace", peace at any cost, regardless of whether its makes you sound like a traitor. Regardless of whether your peace cause does nothing to secure it, instead secures anything but peace. There is no logic or reason to their cause, their doesn't have to be, its all about their cause period.

It should dawn on these people that when a killer like Bin Laden holds the same views as yourself and a number of people walking with you in your protest march that it should give you cause for alarm. A normal sane person would, these people are not plagued with a conscious though. Reversing their postion, means siding with the President, and we can't have that, after all he's the real enemy.

Sold

And I am not a very easy sell. But Fred T has definitely given me something to cheer about. His statements on Leno and his web cast were spot on. I think we have a candidate that sees what America needs and has the guts to speak it. He is the only candidate that I have heard that makes me feel hopeful. I don't know how the critics can say that he lacks Reagan's appeal, he speaks very clearly and very concisely. Now lets see how he does on the big stage.

He will have time to gear up for the next debate and I look forward to seeing him deliver his platform over the next few months. A Rasmussen Poll taken today has already placed him in a statistical tie with Rudy G. Encouraging, but there is a long row to hoe.

I personally think that effect that Fred is having on the competition is seen in the comments from pundits and analysts. They range from negative to out right hateful. It stems from the way he is conducting this campaign.... he isn't following the conventional intellect, he's marching to his own music. And that really upsets the wonks and rainmakers. Keep up the good work Fred!

Minot Mistake

Well it seems my former employer (the USAF) made a small error last Thursday. They accidentally flew a plane load of nuclear weapons across the mid section of country. Seems someone made a mistake, they were not supposed to be live weapons.

Of course the MSM is making it sound like they were carrying raw bars of plutonium strapped to its wings, and radioactive liquids was dripping from its fuselage. The reports say that they were cruise missiles, this I doubt. The ALCM is relatively new to the inventory and it has to be the AGM-69 SRAM which can only be carried internally on a rotary launcher. Its also very unlikely that anyone, other than the idiot who made this mistake, was harmed.

These types of weapons are very difficult to damage, even in an aircraft crash. They are designed to strike targets at mach speed and remain intact long enough to detonate. A plane crash would do little more than dent the casing.

Nonetheless, right now there is a commander in Minot AFB in deep doo doo. You don't make a mistake of this magnitude and keep your command. This guy, gal, is probably on a C-17 headed to Greenland to command a radar site right now.