The Pledge: Grabbing the GOP and the NRSC By The Bucks -- Our Only Choice Left

President Bush, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Lt. General David H. Petraeus (new 4-star commander in Iraq) all agree that the additional 20,000 soldiers to Iraq would be beneficial and that capitulation would be disastrous on a monumental scale.

Earlier, Democrats wanted an increase in troops. Now, because it's a different strategy pushed by Bush, the Defeatocrats do not want an increase in troops. And various Republicans are crossing or poised to cross the aisle over to the Dems' side.

It's time to take a stand. And time for Republicans to grow a spine.

We can help the GOP with this spine-building effort in terms of cash -- the removal thereof.

This is a war. And Iraq is not The War itself; it is merely one campaign in the larger war picture. Recently four of our soldiers were abducted and shot in the head.

The GOP Starts To Cave:

Senator John Warner (R-VA), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Gordon Smith (R-Oregon), Norm Coleman (R-Minnesota), Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) are some of the Republicans going soft, slimy and invertebrate on President Bush. Warner, specifically, introduced a resolution of opposition to Bush's plan which (naturally) is being embraced by many Democrats.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell likewise needs to be reminded of his duty to assist in the reconstruction of GOP invertebrates.

General Petraeus nailed it when Hugh Hewitt interviewed Tony Snow yesterday:

HH: But Tony Snow, did you understand General Petraeus yesterday to say as I think he said, the Biden resolution, or the Warner resolution would provide encouragement to the enemy?

TS: I mean, I believe his answer to that characterization was, and I quote, “That’s correct, sir.”

Take The Pledge:

As a result of all this, Hugh Hewitt is offering The Pledge.

The Pledge says this:

If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.

Once on this site, it asks you to commit to The Pledge by offering your name, zipcode, blog URL and e-mail address in support.

GO THERE NOW AND SIGN THE PLEDGE!

And DO NOT vote for any invertebrate Republican who votes for the resolution, DO NOT contribute ANY money to the NRSC and, the one further step I have determined to take: I will NOT contribute ANY money to the NRC either.

• ENOUGH OF LOOKING THE OTHER WAY!


• REMOVE YOUR MONEY FROM THE REPUBLICAN TABLE!


• THE ONLY THING THAT ACQUIRES ATTENTION IS CASH OR THE REMOVAL THEREOF!


• DO YOUR PART!


• SIGN THE PLEDGE!

The Pledge

By Tarzana Joe

There’s 100 seats

Where the Senate meets

To deliberate our fate

And the derrieres

That sit on those chairs

Should be good and wise and great

They should lead the land

With a steady hand

And be humble at the chore

For they hold the power

At this crucial hour

When we find ourselves at war

Will they lead the way

With a naïveté

That a sane man would condemn

Could it be thus?

They’ll stop bombing us

If we just stop fighting them!?

No, it’s time to rise

And to tell those guys

Not to hem and haw and hedge

For the undersigned

Have hereby combined

And we vow to take the pledge

If you retreat

And invite defeat

We consider that a crime

If you cast your lot

With this sorry blot

Then we won’t give you a dime

Pitfalls are rife

In the public life

And the pits are deep and vast

And the public gents

With no common sense

Could find they’re falling fast.

There’s 100 seats

Where the Senate meets

And they serve at our command

As the derrieres

That sit on those chairs

Had better understand

As of the time of my writing this post, over 23,000 persons had signed The Pledge.

Please, go there now and sign.

BZ