Maybe instead of spending billions each month and American lives to insure the security of Afghanistan school children, we did it first here with our own.
Yah, this quote from RememberSchiff puts me in mind of da current debate over da nomination of Republican Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary.
Former Senator Hagel in many ways is one of da Beavah's Republicans, eh? An old school, honorable conservative pragmatist. A fellow who served his country with distinction and is able to be straight about principles and reality. I was impressed that President Obama would cross party lines in favor of choosin' such a fellow for SecDef.
To my mind it shows how far da current Republican Party has wandered away from true conservative values to see them actively opposing one of their own former colleagues and caucus members. Yeh would think that havin' a fellow conservative Republican as Defense Secretary in a Democratic administration would sail through confirmation with a sigh of relief.
I've been watchin' da media blitz against Senator Hagel by these neo-con ninnies in confused horror. As close as I can tell, the objections run somethin' like this:
1) He's talked about "bloat" in the Pentagon budget and believes it should be streamlined.
Well, back in the day, we used to call this fiscal responsibility.
2) He voted initially for da war in Iraq, but then became increasingly opposed to the way it was managed.
Yah, well, chalk him up as bein' in sync with most of America
3) Along with John McCain, he opposes torture of prisoners.
Yah, well, give him points for honor and bein' willing to uphold da law.
4) He's an advocate of continued gradual drawdown of da global nuclear arsenal.
Seems pretty prudent, since it will decrease da likelihood of random belligerent groups gettin' their hands on a nuke.
5) He's a realist and old-school conservative on da Middle East
This seems to be da biggest thing that sticks in their craw. Da neo-con crowd seems determined to want to follow the barely-re-elected PM of Israel into starting a war with Iran, despite da fact that even da military believes such an endeavor is foolish.
Am I gettin' that wrong? Am I missing somethin'? Can someone please explain to me what these folks are thinkin'? Is it just that they are so in da pockets of da gun/defense industry lobby that they forgot their conservative values?
For me, it cements how far da modern Republican party has abandoned da rest of us. Guns-and-butter overseas intervention and nation-building used to be da foolishness of the spendthrift Democrats like LBJ, which was opposed by us pragmatic conservatives who did not wish to squander our nation's wealth or young men in pie-in-da-sky adventurism.
Beavah
Yah, this quote from RememberSchiff puts me in mind of da current debate over da nomination of Republican Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary.
Former Senator Hagel in many ways is one of da Beavah's Republicans, eh? An old school, honorable conservative pragmatist. A fellow who served his country with distinction and is able to be straight about principles and reality. I was impressed that President Obama would cross party lines in favor of choosin' such a fellow for SecDef.
To my mind it shows how far da current Republican Party has wandered away from true conservative values to see them actively opposing one of their own former colleagues and caucus members. Yeh would think that havin' a fellow conservative Republican as Defense Secretary in a Democratic administration would sail through confirmation with a sigh of relief.
I've been watchin' da media blitz against Senator Hagel by these neo-con ninnies in confused horror. As close as I can tell, the objections run somethin' like this:
1) He's talked about "bloat" in the Pentagon budget and believes it should be streamlined.
Well, back in the day, we used to call this fiscal responsibility.
2) He voted initially for da war in Iraq, but then became increasingly opposed to the way it was managed.
Yah, well, chalk him up as bein' in sync with most of America
3) Along with John McCain, he opposes torture of prisoners.
Yah, well, give him points for honor and bein' willing to uphold da law.
4) He's an advocate of continued gradual drawdown of da global nuclear arsenal.
Seems pretty prudent, since it will decrease da likelihood of random belligerent groups gettin' their hands on a nuke.
5) He's a realist and old-school conservative on da Middle East
This seems to be da biggest thing that sticks in their craw. Da neo-con crowd seems determined to want to follow the barely-re-elected PM of Israel into starting a war with Iran, despite da fact that even da military believes such an endeavor is foolish.
Am I gettin' that wrong? Am I missing somethin'? Can someone please explain to me what these folks are thinkin'? Is it just that they are so in da pockets of da gun/defense industry lobby that they forgot their conservative values?
For me, it cements how far da modern Republican party has abandoned da rest of us. Guns-and-butter overseas intervention and nation-building used to be da foolishness of the spendthrift Democrats like LBJ, which was opposed by us pragmatic conservatives who did not wish to squander our nation's wealth or young men in pie-in-da-sky adventurism.
Beavah
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