Reply #47: Agreed, benny05. And, I think Casey was way too soft. [View All]

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I was rather disappointed to see Sanitorium being allowed to repeatedly make assertions that were flat-out unsupportable. Moreover, Casey (and other Dems) need to take a deep breath and say something like this:

"Fine. If this is the most important ideological struggle of our time, then Republican strategies aren't working! For one, how can you justify demonizing over half the population of the United States that is opposed to the occupation in Iraq -- and by the way, that's exactly what is, a failing occupation that was never planned or thought through in the rush to war. Insulting your countrymen is no way to fight the most important ideological struggle of our time. Also, why the need to continue trotting out straw men on terror surveillance? We're all against terror, Mr. Sanitorium. I challenge Sen. Sanitorium right now to look America in the eye and explain how the framers of the constitution were appeasing terrorists by forcing the government to obtain probable cause prior to searches. Do Republicans believe that a secret American court can't be trusted to keep secrets? Obviously so. It's been said that those who will trade freedom for a little security deserve neither. Why is Sen. Santiorium opposed to our God-given, hard won freedoms? And how can we stand as a beacon to those who aren't free by defiling the system that guarantees those freedoms?

"I'm not saying that security isn't important, though. It is. So why is it that they have refused to allow Democrats to put forth bills that would help ensure our domestic security by screening all of the cargo that comes through our ports and stepping up operations at vulnerable nuclear and mass-transit facilities? And why have so many homeland security funds that should be protecting our citizens in the most populous regions been diverted to pork projects like the bridge to nowhere and costly electronic signs for county fairs? Meanwhile, on border security, rather than actually sitting down and doing anything, conservative Republicans have been busily gallivanting around the country ginning up fear -- OF MEXICANS, for crying out loud! We're spending hundreds of billions of precious tax dollars on domestic pork and this ill-advised conflict in Iraq while real Americans remain vulnerable every day. It's an inconvenient truth that Democrats have tried to point out, but the Republican majority won't allow any real debate. Sen. Sanitorium says that we can't leave until the job is finished. Well, the real job that needs to finished overseas -- and at home for that matter -- is the con job that the Repubicans have been pulling that they are committed to making us safer. Their only commitment so far has been to avoid admitting what all of us can see -- that their policies are destroying our unity at home and have created a fiasco overseas. And Sen. Santorum has the nerve to take credit that there hasn't been a major terrorist attack on our shores since Sept. 11. To me, that sounds dangerously close to "bring it on!" Famous last words! This is not the time to crow and pound our chests. It's time to follow the Democrats' plan and commit the necessary money and manpower to homeland defense, while rebuilding relations with our allies. Slogans like "We're fighting them over there so we don't have to face them here," -- there's no logic in that. Who are they? The factions shooting at each other in Iraq weren't enemies of America -- until we invaded! Slogans are not strategies.

"Finally, I want Sen. Sanitorium to look me in the eye, face to face, and tell ME that I'm unpatriotic and want to see al-Quaeda and other religious extremists win this ideological battle. Do it, Senator. Tell me that I hate America. That's what you've been insinuating, and frankly I'm sick of it. He won't do it, Tim...because now the spotlight is on and he's running faster than a cockroach from a can of Raid. This politically planned strategy of questioning the patriotism of anyone who dares to challenge a president who has violated the Constitution, embarrased America, chased away our allies and undermined the very "war on terror" that he claims to be prosecuting so effectively, -- well, that's the hallmark of a coward. The real cut-and-run artists are Rick Sanitorium and other Bush loyalists. Face it, Rick. I know it's hard, but America has never been served by cowards who won't admit the truth. America deserves better than this and your tried-and-true strategy of calling us devils or appeasers or liberals isn't working anymore. We're smarter than that now. You're going to need a new act, and I'm going to help you find it by sending you packing from the Senate."


My question is, why aren't DEOMOCRATS talking like THAT? We contine to allow the right to spew their vomit. It's time to scrape it up and throw it back at them.