Comments on: Pelosi nixes Rangel’s bill to bring back the draft (Update: Video added)

By: Left Wing = Hate

Left Wing = Hate — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:14:49 +0000

Abuse of Power: Liberal Democrat wants to Institute Military Draft, not for National Security, but for personal Political reasons…

It never fails, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. They are not even sworn into office yet, but Democrats already want to turn the United States into a Tyrannical Military State for no other reason but that they can.
It seems th…

By: laelaps

laelaps — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:20:01 +0000

Rangel wants to propose the draft so he can vote against it, just as did once before. He wants anti-draft protests and riots in the streets. But I have to agree with his fascism on a certain level, where he says that 2 years of compulsory service (via “tough love”) would be a therapeutic shock to the nation. Not everyone drafted would go military, but everyone would learn some discipline and manners.

By: John

John — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:54:54 +0000

At a top-secret meeting in the future majority leader’s office…

Pelosi: Here’s the play, Chuck. You’re going to reintroduce that draft bill again. The same one you trotted out in ’04.

Rangel(gravely): But it didn’t work.

Pelosi: And it won’t now. But let’s face it, I’m really frighteningly liberal. So liberal that even the NY Times will be forced to notice it in as little as 6-12 months.

Rangel: I get it. You want me to run left with the ball so you can call me out of bounds…

Pelosi: Making me look as moderate as Hillary.

Rangel: **unintelligible** but what’s in it for me?

Pelosi: Lots and lots of TV time.

Rangel: I’m **unintelligible** there!

By: Leaning Straight Up

Leaning Straight Up — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:54:54 +0000

Liberal disdain for the military rears its head in Rangel…

Photoshop via Stubborn Facts
If Kerry and his botched joke was not bad enough, now Rep Rangel has upped the ante a notch.
First, he has once again called for a resumption of the draft.
Video: Rangel says he’ll introduce a bill to bring back the …

By: Lothar

Lothar — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:18:23 +0000

I can’t hear a word she is saying over all of those camera shutters going off.

By: Wolfman

Wolfman — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:31:51 +0000

Here is yet more proof that the Democrat majority will last exactly two years. The question is, who will replace them? I don’t see the Republicans becoming any more worthy of the position in that time.

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Rangel says Iraq volunteers are in it for the money, or something

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:50:38 +0000

[...] He also gently reminds Pelosi that the new Democratic Congress is supposed to be about hearings, fact-finding, deliberation. So why the rush to get this issue off the table? [...]

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:40:34 +0000

What is important is what happens AFTER they control the committees and the speakership. Pelosi says that she’s against the draft and against impeachment hearings — FOR NOW, before she actually wields the gavel.

Everything can change on the first week in January when the 110th Congress is sworn in. THAT is when the ‘100 hours’ clock starts running. That is when the “screwing” of America begins.

georgej on November 20, 2006 at 7:07 PM

Excellent point as I’ve not seen Pelousy actually say that she will never support Rangel’s Bill. She may not allow it to come to the floor in the first 100 hours, and she may not allow it in the first 100 days, but she did not say that she would never support the Draft. Maybe she will support the Draft by saying it is necesary due to our Heroes no longer re-enlisting [actually caused by liberals in Congress], enlistment quotas no longer being met, and that it is all Bush’s fault. That would then give her the momentum to push for Impeachment.

I know that it sounds like fiction, but stranger things have happened in Washington.

By: georgej

georgej — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:07:11 +0000

Natesnake, the OFFICIAL Timing Questioner, wrote: “I QUESTION THE TIMING!”

As well you should.

Ladies and gentlemen, all these announcements mean jack snit. They ARE NOT YET IN CHARGE and won’t be until January. So, they bloviate gas, make base-appeasing nonsense and small talk, and pontificate for the cameras, because all these clowns ARE IMPORTANT PEOPLE all of a sudden — people to be taken SERIOUSLY.

What is important is what happens AFTER they control the committees and the speakership. Pelosi says that she’s against the draft and against impeachment hearings — FOR NOW, before she actually wields the gavel.

Everything can change on the first week in January when the 110th Congress is sworn in. THAT is when the ’100 hours’ clock starts running. That is when the “screwing” of America begins.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:06:16 +0000

…is it just me, or is Charlie Rangel a slippery, smirking, self-serving, race-baiting pol with a safe-seat-until-death, a contempt for democracy, whose loyalty can only be counted on until the Democratic Party is no longer of use to advance his agenda?

…OK…just me. Vast Right-Wing Conspirator and all that….sorry….

Puritan1648 on November 20, 2006 at 3:40 PM

You nailed it Puritan !

By: Queasy

Queasy — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:01:02 +0000

“It’s not about a draft it’s about shared sacrifice in our country,” Pelosi told reporters in her Capitol Hill office…

WTH does that mean?

By: Zorro

Zorro — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:56:11 +0000

I’m with lorien1973 on this one, if the President held a prime time address to the nation and asked for more volunteers, he would get them.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:54:26 +0000

Ah gee Charlie… don’t worry about it. Use the old noodle man, there’s lots of other great bills you could introduce that every far left moonbat would love. How about socialized medicine with guaranteed FREE sex change operations? … No ? …. OK how about Medicare for all illegal aliens and their pets ? Oh…. er …. How about a three dollar increase in the gasoline tax !! …. Alright … Alright … calm down … I got it … Revocation of all private property rights to fight ahhh .. lets see ahhhh, OH … Global Warming !! Still No ? OK this is REALLY it … Confiscation of all IRA’s for …. ahhh … let’s see ….. YEAH … For The Children !! See Charlie, don’t feel bad, you can still make a difference !

/sarcasm-off

By: DannoJyd

DannoJyd — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:49:05 +0000

I heard that Rangel was again pushing his Draft legislation on Fox sometime around 4:00 pm, est. today. I guess he has decided to join the Whether Men as those always cite a thing that whether it isn’t right today, and no matter whether it is right tomorrow, but when it IS right we get to listen to, “I Told You So!” Just like weather men, they know it will rain eventually.

America might actually need to reinstate the Draft if the liberals manage to pull off their cut-and-run schemes, and that will be the day when Rangel will be the King of the liberal chitstorm.

By: seejanemom

seejanemom — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:15:23 +0000

Nancy wouldn’t want the draft because all of those strapping young legal Americans working in her vineyards would have to run off to war.

Who would pick her grapes?

By: Marvin

Marvin — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:11:20 +0000

Is Pelosi the Skipper on a 3 hour cruise?

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:08:02 +0000

Is it just me or is this new Democrat Controlled Congress shaping up to be very entertaining. I mean hell, who needs Reality TV when we’ve got Jackass meets West Wing on CNN every day!

jasnell on November 20, 2006 at 1:43 PM

Quisp, DreadPirate, Jasnell…close your eyes, listen…feel the love.

After the orgy of self-hate and recrimination that was the mid-term Kool-Aid fest, who could have known that the salve for our pain would be … the Democrats.

This is almost too good. Pelosi speaking in public makes GW sound positively eloquent. Rangel in charge of anything makes FEMA’s Brown look like Henry Ford.

They want to take a guy who was impeached as a Federal Judge and put him in charge of a House committee. Thank you, Lord; thank you…

By: LakeRuins

LakeRuins — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:39:40 +0000

Oh yeah so is the press now referring to Ms Pelosi as a moderate? You know like Ahmadinnerjacket is the moderate president of Iran.

By: LakeRuins

LakeRuins — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:37:30 +0000

…is it just me, or is Charlie Rangel a slippery, smirking, self-serving, race-baiting pol with a safe-seat-until-death, a contempt for democracy, whose loyalty can only be counted on until the Democratic Party is no longer of use to advance his agenda?

…OK…just me. Vast Right-Wing Conspirator and all that….sorry….

Puritan1648 on November 20, 2006 at 3:40 PM

/How dare you question his patriotism? He served in the military and got a medal and everything.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:36:07 +0000

I think we should increase the standing army up to 800,000 or a million, but thru volunteer efforts. People who are there, should want to be there, not forced to be there.

By: naliaka

naliaka — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:25:52 +0000

For the record: June 15, 2004
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1317
Chuck Hagel, Hillary Clinton, Charles Rangel in favor of a draft that would include:
Women and Men
no college deferements
John Kerry was also on record as for mandatory draft.
Rangel is just the front man for the Democratic Draft. Hillary Rodham Clinton supports a wildly radical draft proposal that includes this nation’s daughters as well as sons. It’s not Rangel, the lone political nutcase, he’s one of a group of Dems who want to push this. It’ll be back. Rangel will keep floating it on behalf of the radicals until they get the right signals.

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:23:55 +0000

BTW,
raaaaaacist

(I would have questioned the timing, but others have already taken care of that for this one.)

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:22:34 +0000

Well, obviously the Rep’s are the ones sitting closest to the pages

spit-take

By: Wade

Wade — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:02:00 +0000

BTY, someone the Imus show this morning wondered if Rangel was one of the original Ink Spots. Hope Kramer adds that to his show at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood.

By: Wade

Wade — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:59:46 +0000

Pelosi was hear to say “It is President Bush’s fault Charlie is a nut. Rangel was heard to say “It is President Bush’s fault Nancy is a moonbat”