Senator Clinton, a Disaster in Wait

Representative Peter Stark (D, CA), the Chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, splashed a lot of mud on our military last week. He wasn’t pleased with President Bush’s veto of the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).

In protest to the veto, he stated that President Bush sent US troops to Iraq to watch them die for his “own amusement.” This was Representative Stark’s rebuke for funding the Iraqi front against al Qaeda, rather than funding health care for an additional ten million, “poor children.”

And there at Rep. Stark’s left elbow stood a smiling Senator Hillary Clinton. Her support of this fellow member of the Weaken America Club dispels any doubts about her real political agenda.

In a follow-up interview, the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), refused to condemn the remark. Her passive acceptance didn’t quell the uproar. Thus, Representative Stark issued the following written apology.

"I have nothing but respect for our brave men and women in uniform and wish them the very best," said Stark. "But I respect neither the Commander-in-Chief who keeps them in harms way nor the chickenhawks [sic] in Congress who vote to deny children health care."

The logical extension of his apology confirms that Representative Stark respects our military, even though he thinks they are too stupid to understand why they are in Iraq. It’s unlikely his apology uplifted the spirits of our military, but it does exemplify why Congress’ approval rating is nearly in single digits.

Representative Stark, speaking for his comrades, lashed out at our military and President Bush because he couldn’t defend the content of the revised SCHIP legislation.

He didn’t want to mention that five million of the ten million children were already eligible for the program.

He didn’t want to mention that the legislation defined a child as anyone under the age of 25.

He didn’t want to mention that the SCHIP legislation’s definition of a poor child included the children of families with incomes up to $82,000.

He didn’t want to mention SCHIP covered the children of illegal aliens to age 25.

He didn’t want to mention that President Bush agreed to accept similar legislation that calibrated the age and income qualifications to levels consistent with the program’s original intent.

He didn’t want to mention that the entire exercise was a ruse to extend national healthcare to the middleclass and debilitate private healthcare.

Representative Stark is an unabashed ultra left-winger. Ditto for Rep. Pelosi. But presidential candidate Senator Clinton masquerades as a centrist. If she is a moderate, then Presidents Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt were charter members of the Great Rightwing Conspiracy. Senator Clinton is a socialist. Her candidacy for president can only be described as a national disaster in wait.

A Cold Chill

Last week the Democrats unfurled their secular progressive flag and planted it in our nation’s capitol. There can be no more conjecture about their Weaken America strategy. Six events crystallized their goals.

First, Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House Speaker, and the defacto spokesperson for the far left, supported regulations which would prohibit the mention of God in government documents. Although she backtracked when the effort was exposed, the incident defined the far left’s intent to rid the nation of any mention of God.

Secondly, presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, proposed that every newborn in the United States be given $5000. That’s what we need—a $5000 incentive for illegal aliens to cross our southern border. She also proposed that the government contribute $1000 to the 401Ks of families with incomes under $100,000, and $3500 subsidies for higher education.

Then, later in the week, she claimed she had “millions” of these ideas. We get it Senator Clinton—more entitlements, more taxes, more illegal aliens . . . the elimination of investment capital through confiscatory taxation . . . the government control of opportunity . . . the perfect socialist dream. Lenin and Marx would be thrilled with your vision.

Thirdly, the congressional Democratic delegation demanded that the electronic surveillance of suspected international terrorists be suspended unless subpoenas are granted. This would require our intelligence gathering agencies to know in advance the content of conversations prior to eavesdropping—which would require the NSA to be clairvoyant.

In a nutshell, the leftwing is demanding that international terrorists be provided the same Constitutional rights as US citizens. Why? To protect the rights of anyone within our borders who conspire with terrorists. They believe that protecting the rights of terrorists will enhance our international image and discourage terrorism—all evidence to the contrary.

Fourthly, the congressional Democrats officially announced their intention to attach the Dream Act—which is Lie and Stay Blanket Amnesty—to the current defense appropriation bill. This measure will open the door to permanent residence for about 40 million immigrants—illegal aliens and their extended families.

And it will stick the American taxpayers with about $6.8 trillion in additional taxes for illegal alien entitlements. The cost of the Iraqi War is chump change compared to this effort to grow an entitlement hungry constituency.

Fifthly, a national poll indicated that about twenty percent of Democrats believe the United States would be better off if our nation was defeated in Iraq. In response to this poll, Speaker Pelosi, and another charter member of the Weaken America Club, Senator Dick Durbin (D, IL), publicly stated that these funds used to fight al Qaeda would be better spent on more entitlements.

Sixthly, the Democrats proposed a resolution to condemn Turkey for its role in the genocide of Armenians—which happened 92 years ago. Such a resolution would only serve to drive a wedge between the United States and Turkey, a key ally in the Terrorism War.

This resolution encapsulates the leftwing war strategy: Undermine our military and the anti-terrorist coalition to speed a US defeat. A US defeat will benefit Democratic candidates in the 2008 elections. And welcome to the Weaken America Club.

No wonder we feel a cold chill. Representative Pelosi and the Weaken America Club are holding the door to our future wide open, ready to welcome Senator Clinton. The prospect of these collaborators controlling our destiny makes global warming appealing.