The Right State

This interesting piece written by Steven R. Weisman in the New York Times.  I do not know why the mainstream media continue to attempt to portray a fracture in the Republican Party.  Sure, many republicans are miffed at the fact that many of our republican friends walking the halls of congress are not putting a curb on their spending.  Plus the fact they are letting the minority party dictate what goes through Congress.  They need to wake-up and realize they hold the majority of the seats in both houses of the Legislature. 

But that is another subject.  We do have problems with some of those in our party as mentioned earlier.  For my part, I believe most of the republicans in our party support what the president is doing in Iraq.  We have deposed a brutal dictator who abused, tortured, and murdered his own people.  We removed a brutal tyrant who had it out for the people of the United States.  And from the documents just released by the White House (thanks to John Hinderacker at Powerline for finding them) we know for a fact that Saddam Hussein had both WMDs and supported terrorists.  Given the chance, he would have used both against us.  So why is getting rid of him and supporting democracy in the troubled Middle East a bad thing? 

Weisman says there is a lot of grumbling within the Republican Party, saying a number of republicans think we are spending too much time on promoting democracy instead of focusing on things that really matter. To Weisman’s credit, he does go on to list the issues he thinks are more important than promoting democracy in Iraq.  The problem with Weisman’s piece is he only mentions two of our favorite senators, Chuck Hagel and Richard G. Lugar, who do not represent the views of the rest of the Republican Party. 

It is getting to the point where I hate to even hear the names of these two senators.  They seem more interested in seeking the adulation of the msm rather than representing their constituents.  How they win their re-elections, I will never know.  Weisman as a reporter of ‘America’s Newspaper’ should know this.  What a sham!  You can’t report a split in a major party in Washington and only quote two people.  Real reporters reports the news.  He does not go out and find information from the two biggest media whores in the Republican Party to support what you already believe and want to prove.  What a joke!