Republicans Glad to Lose on Bill to Start New Draft.
Actual headline, I kid you not. The article does not mention until the 16th paragraph that it was Democrat Charles Rangel who introduced the bill. THE REPUBLICANS DID NOT LOSE, THEY WON. With this absolutely obvious example of a poltically motivated Big Lie, the LA Slimes is following the purest tradition of the founder of activist media, Dr. Joseph Goebbels.WASHINGTON — Seeking to dispel suggestions that the war in Iraq could lead to reinstatement of the draft, House Republicans on Tuesday hastily brought the idea to a vote — with the express intent of shooting it down.
The vote, launched with only hours of notice and no public hearings, was designed to put an end to talk that President Bush's foreign policy could overtax the all-volunteer Army that has been national policy since the end of the Vietnam War.
"It's putting a rumor to rest," John Feehery, a spokesman for House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), said even before the 402-2 vote to reject the bill that would have mandated two years of military or civilian service for all men and women 18 to 26 years old.
But congressional Democrats and activists elsewhere denounced the vote as an empty exercise that trivialized what many Americans believe is a real possibility. An "empty exercise" and red herring that they initiated! This is beyond the pale, there are no dupes, all lefties are willful liars and deliberate terror-tools! Does anyone doubt now that the left's media gods are the real enemy? |