Comments on: A REPORT FROM THE FRONT

By: Nik Mendota

Nik Mendota — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:38:40 +0000

The issue now is that LGF is BORING, what with all its ranting against CJ’s enemies and railing against “creationists”. I used to check out the site on a pretty regular basis but don’t go there anymore.

I used to think Pam Geller was a bit of an hysteric but with what’s happened in the past 100 days or so, I now consider her a good source of information.

By: bsjones

bsjones — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:15:31 +0000

Travis Monitor,

If I understand you correctly, the important thing to remember about the Iraq war is that we fought it on behalf of the Iraqi people. So any money spent liberating Iraq should be seen as a selfless gift from the American taxpayer to a helpless peopl once under the thumb of a brutal dictator.

I like the sound of it. We invaded Iraq to save its people and spread democracy to an unfortunate region. I love its simplicity.

There is a 45 year old man I know personally who is fighting this war for Iraqi freedom. He has a blog I really love. He posts every three days or so from Iraq talking about what happens as he does his job.It can be seen here:
http://micahappelman.com/Blog.html

He used to have very cool pictures on it, but one day they all came down never to appear again.

By: Glib Tunafish

Glib Tunafish — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:20:16 +0000

This entire issue is a sideshow and a distraction. The real issues involve current national policy on the economy and defense. Whether we will be weaked enough both economically and militarily through the absurd policies of the Teleprompter president to be unable to prevent or respond to another attack equal to or greater than 9/11. CJ is a paranoid egomaniac but that isn’t really the issue. The issue is will he and GoV and JW and other sensible people continue to highlight the failures of this administration and the growing threat that we all face. We know that the rest of the media will never live up to that task. It may unfortunately take another event such as 9/11 to wake people up and out of silly personal feuds. CJ banned me from LFG. Fine. Let him ban the whole world and pretent that Nazis are hiding in the bushes. Fine. Just so long as he and his supporters continue to get behind reponsible people in our Government again. I will do the same even as I call him the paranoid egomaniac that he is. When the country is secure from our enemies we can work through the details. Without being secure against Jihadists we can never work through the disagreements that civilized peoples will always have.

By: Travis Monitor

Travis Monitor — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:09:19 +0000

I think that us on the right are fracturing at a high rate and we will be on the loosing side for a long time. All the wars over who is a real conservative and who is not has killed us and will for years to come.

Oh yea of little faith. Obama’s socialist, narcissistic, globalistic, corrupt, kleptocratic and insanely wrong decisions and statement are daily re-uniting the right. Obama has the prolifers on board fighting Sebelius. The neo-cons are in shock at Obama’s dishonest handling of the ‘torture memos’ and the underlying facts that we saved lives through this validates the Bush administrations decisions. Last, the massive over-spending, tax increases and business regulations are making all fiscal conservatives and libertarians realize that we cannot afford a Democratic majority.

We need to unite the right. If Republican leaders can articulate a consensus conservative message it will be a winning one.

By: Travis Monitor

Travis Monitor — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:02:53 +0000

In contrast, President Barack Obama’s widely criticized stimulus package was passed by congress on a party line vote to the tune of $787 billion dollars. The major difference here: President Obama’s stimulus plan hasn’t cost the lives of 4,000 troops and over 100,000 (lowest estimate possible) Iraqi citizens.”

Iraq spending, which amounts to less than 5% of total spending in the 10 year time period, has liberated Iraqi people from a dictator. Obama’s $16 trillion total spending in 4 years and $10 trillion in new debt will make the next generation of US people debt-slaves.

By: bsjones

bsjones — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:48:50 +0000

Manning,
I may have been tongue in check, but the idea was also based on a real Republican proposal. It was a Rumsfeld initiative called the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator.
It got the dove’s panties in a twist and most of the funding went towards aspects of the program that were not directly nuclear warhead related. Some info here:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa083102a.htm

and here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9148-2005Feb8.html

Some in the GOP said it was a good idea but bad PR.

By: Stix

Stix — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:36:51 +0000

I think that us on the right are fracturing at a high rate and we will be on the loosing side for a long time. All the wars over who is a real conservative and who is not has killed us and will for years to come. Unless we finally get over who is more conservative or the “True Conservative”, and finally get to fighting the Left in this country, we are doomed to having Obama and his merry European Socialist rule for many decades.

Once we figure out who we are suppose to be fighting and each other, we might have a chance unless we are too far divided by then.

By: c3

c3 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:19:21 +0000

“Hardly anyone (openly) considers themselves Republican anymore.”

Why does this sound so much like another quote “can’t believe Nixon had won since no one I know had voted for him”

By: mannning

mannning — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:10:10 +0000

Why is bsjones so modest in his pro proposal? He wants nuclear war lite, just as I suspect he wants liberal liteness for the GOP. There would, in the end, be nuclear war heavy with his approach.

All in all a silly attempt at being clever.

We still need some truly positive pro ideas, not disasters from the peanut gallery.

By: jb

jb — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:12:20 +0000

“The lowest cost estimates by the Congressional Budget Office and respected economists place the total cost of the Iraq War and rebuilding efforts between $ 1.8 Trillion (lowest estimate) and $4.0 trillion (highest estimate) through 2016 (taking into account a residual peacekeeping force).
In contrast, President Barack Obama’s widely criticized stimulus package was passed by congress on a party line vote to the tune of $787 billion dollars. The major difference here: President Obama’s stimulus plan hasn’t cost the lives of 4,000 troops and over 100,000 (lowest estimate possible) Iraqi citizens.”