The 59 who stood athwart the Tide because of Principle

Fire of Liberty

While a lot of people probably won't see it much this weekend, the US House of Representatives passed Resolution 648 279-109 which declared that the stated goal of the US Congress to stay in Iraq until we've achieved a total victory. Aside from demonstrating our allegiance to our soldiers the resolution also reassured the 10 million Iraqi citizens, who went out and braved the terrorists to vote in a new permanent government (for at least the next four years), that we are willing help them go down that wonderful road known as democracy. Resolution 648 also demonstrated an emerging schism within the Democratic party within the House over our commitment in Iraq. I'd say that when 59 Dems go off Pelosi's "say no to anything President Bush says or does" plantation and side with the Republicans to offer this resolution to push our troops onward to victory and to reassure the folks in Iraq that we're there with them in their quest for a democratic future, then the nation gets a better picture about how the Democrats are running themselves into the ground and a great abyss of nothingness. I just hope that the American people take notice about how the "pull up the stakes" crowd is damaging our image to the rest of the world. I guess this vote is just another demonstration of where the party has gone ever since Nancy "Miss America" Pelosi took the helm. (If you look here, you'll discover that Harold Ford Jr. who lost out to Pelosi in the leadership race with the Cal. Rep, voted for the Res. 648) So let's see who wins the issue in 2006, I'd say that the 59 Dems who voted yes on 648 know America far better than their leadership and will outlast the storm.

To show you how much I like stand up guys like the 59 Dems, I'm pledging my vote to Representative Jim Marshall come November 2006. I know that a lot of folks might fall out of their seats to read that John R. Starley Jr. has pledged his vote for a Democrat like Jim Marshall but he's got a Carl Vinson quality to him and won't back down from defending our troops and our mission when things get stirred up and polls go south. Let's hope more Dems start to fall in line with the brave 59