Democrats' Groundhog Day!

Here is a take on the dems, lefties, defeatists, terrorist appeasers and just plain old traitors. - Sailor



"The Buzz Cut"
Lt Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson
Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Human Events

Democrats' Groundhog Day!

'In a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan. . .'

In the 1993 movie, Groundhog Day, comedian Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a frustrated, cynical weatherman who is forced to repeat the same day over and over again until he becomes a better person. He awakens day after miserable day, bitter about his assignment to cover Punxsutawney Phil, discovering that it's Groundhog Day again. The same plight has befallen the Democratic Party.

Every day, instead of Groundhog Day, is Tuesday, April 22, 1971. For liberals, Murray's Groundhog Day is the day John Kerry delivered his infamous testimony to the overtly dovish Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; the day time stopped for liberals. The prism through which they view their country, their politics, and their military is repeated again, and again, and again…

I wonder if John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, or Dennis Kucinich can see their own shadows. Or, more significantly, the billowing shadow of freedom and liberty being cast across the entire region of the Middle East.

Punxsutawney Phil saw his this morning signaling six more weeks of what has been a bitter winter. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, by the way not an Iraqi for those who call the terrorists "freedom fighters," is seeing the shadow of the most powerful military the world has ever known closing in and around his spider hole. Just yesterday, his minions were reduced to holding a G.I. Joe doll captive (Quick, call in the Power Rangers and get Barbie and Ken into the Green Zone!)

The neighbors across the border in Syria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are seeing the shadow of democracy and human rights chipping away slowly and surely at the veneer of their repressive and despotic regimes.

Rodents, terrorists, and tyrants are seeing shadows, it's the liberals who can't or won't.

In my recent book, Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers, and Jeopardize Our Security, I dedicate two chapters to what I term the "politics of treason," American politicians taking political discourse and dissent over the line and onto the battlefield. Politicians so bent on power and ego that aiding and abetting the enemy, thereby undermining our troops, are acceptable in the course of events.

Hanoi John Kerry and Hanoi Jane Fonda combined their efforts to completely and effectively undermine the U.S. military in Vietnam. Fonda's visit to Hanoi and Kerry's congressional testimony were used to torture our prisoners-of-war being held at the miserable, dank Hoa Lo prison in North Vietnam.

Kerry and Kennedy collaborated in Kerry's April 1971 D.C. liberal "coming out" party where Kerry, among other libelous assertions, noted that our troops were war criminals, that crimes were being committed on a daily basis and with full knowledge of all levels of command, and that "we cannot fight communism all over the world."

Senators Hillary Clinton and Jack Reed held hands on a similar effort in Iraq and Afghanistan over Thanksgiving 2003 under the guise of a "fact-finding trip." Addressing the soldiers over what should have been a smack-them-on-the-shoulder morale boost, Clinton said "the outcome of (the war) is not assured" and that "there are many questions at home about the administration's policies." Reed claimed that the administration's reasons for fighting the war on terror were "tenuous at best."

Kerry, in his first visit to a war zone since 1969, visited the battlefields in Iraq last month to criticize the commander-in-chief in front of the commander-in-chief's troops. (One astute military blogger cited the trail of slime left in the desert). As a result of the visit, the San Francisco Chronicle headlined "Kerry Cheered in Baghdad, Decries Bush Team's 'Blunders.'" Kerry, choosing not to bolster military and slap some uniformed backs but to realize some personal political capital, charged the Bush administration with "horrendous judgments" and "unbelievable blunders."

And now, we have a successful election, the second in the region in a year, in what has been a violently oppressive land. Eight million Iraqi citizens braved car bombs, mortar and sniper fire to vote. (In the U.S., Ohio is a "battleground" state.) At least 60 percent of the population chose to do so. Theoretically, even Saddam Hussein had the opportunity to vote as he has not yet been convicted of violation Iraqi law. In America, some drizzle or a 30 minute wait in line would dissuade.

Groundhog Day!

The New York Times splashed an article on election eve declaring "Flashback to the 60's: A Sinking Sensation of Parallels Between Iraq and Vietnam" in which the author pre-empts any potential good news with apoplectic comparison to an election in South Vietnam in 1976.

Kennedy, when he can work other words in edgewise around "quagmire, Vietnam, wrong, quagmire, and quagmire," delivered a terrorist aiding and abetting speech just three days prior to the Iraqi elections.

Kerry hit the Sunday morning talk show circuit warning that "no one in the United States should try to over-hype this election." "The real test is not the election," he said. Tell that to 8 million Iraqis dancing in the streets, John.

Dennis Kucinich went on Fox News' Hannity & Colmes last night hyperventilating "No WMDs! No WMDs" whenever questioned by Sean.

The Democrats missed a golden opportunity to close ranks with the majority of Americans who support our effort in Iraq, and Iraqis themselves, who are flipping purple fingers at al-Zarqawi and the rest of the terrorists.

They would do well to remember the last president they elected who understood national security and embraced it:"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty." --John F. Kennedy

For Democrats, it really is time to become a better person. Phil Connors did in the movie version. It's also time for Republicans to stand up and denounce this behavior for what it was in 1971 and what it is today. Kennedy, Kerry, and Kucinich are playing the politics of treason with our troops lives. Our troops know it, al Zarqawi and bin Laden survive on it, and it's disgusting.

Until they do, every day will be Groundhog Day.


Buzz Patterson is the best selling author of Dereliction of Duty and Reckless Disregard. He also hosts his radio show, The Buzz Cut, heard live every Monday at 1:00 PM Eastern at http://www.rightalk.com/.