Archive for September, 2007

Gabby’s Agenda

Published September 28, 2007 David Petraeus , Gabby Giffords , MoveOn.org , Politics 0 Comments

Isn’t it slightly appalling that Gabby, who represents a district that has a high military constituency, would so willing accept campaign cash from MoveOn.org? This is a group that does nothing to support our military men and women, but instead slanders them and calls our generals betrayers of the American people.

Yet Gabby seems content to keep the nearly $7,000 in campaign donations she has received from them, and on the 26th of September she proved her comfortability with being close to this shameful group. In the Foreign Affairs Committee, she voted against the Pence Amendment to bring to the House floor a motion to condemn MoveOn.org and their scathing advertisement in the New York Times against General David Petraeus. But once the motion got to the floor, she flip-flopped on her stance with the issue and voted for the Pence Amendment.

What Gabby’s actions prove is that she is only interested in doing what is right when someone is watching. Rather than standing up for the military men and women who live and work in her district, she tried to privately defeat legislation that would have shown them that she supports them. But once the cameras in the House were rolling live for C-SPAN Gabby tried to hide her true feelings by voting in favor of the amendment.

If you go to Gabby’s website, however, there is no mention of the amendment anywhere. There won’t be either, because if she publicizes her vote once she was on the floor, then MoveOn.org would be very irate with her and would be likely to pull its thousands that have been marked for Gabby’s 2008 re-election campaign.

It begs the question, what is really on Gabby’s agenda? Who does she really for, her constituents or a far left-wing special interest group?

Gabby Gets Cozy

Published September 10, 2007 Congress , David Petraeus , Gabby Giffords , H.R. 1591 , Iraq , John Murtha , MoveOn.org , Nancy Pelosi , Politics , Raul Grijalva , Steny Hoyer 1 Comment

On the day that General David Petraeus gives his report to the House of Representatives on the situation in Iraq, MoveOn.org has printed in the New York Times an ad calling him “General Betray Us“, accusing him of being a puppet of the Bush Administration. This ad was of course viewed online and in print by the millions of people worldwide who read the Times before the General even made it to the steps of the Capitol to give his report.

To make things clear, MoveOn.org is saying that an American General, who has served the United States for over 35 years is a traitor to his country. Just wondering, but what does MoveOn.org consider people like Jose Padilla to be?

When Gabby Giffords was running for Congress in the fall of 2006 she said, “We must pursue a responsible exit strategy from Iraq, but only after Iraq is secure.” Yet at the same time she did not hesitate to take over $6,000 in campaign contributions from MoveOn. So what Gabby says to get elected is different from what she actually believes.

So can Americans count on Gabby to denounce the despicable actions of MoveOn.org against an American General who is doing what he thinks is best for America, Iraq, and our troops? Absolutely not. She has become quite cozy with the MoveOn.org crowd and the ultra-liberal members of Congress. If she denounced MoveOn, she would lose a great deal of campaign money from: Nancy Pelosi who has given her $8,000; Tom Daschle, $8,000; John Dingell, $2,000; Raul Grijalva, $1,000; Steny Hoyer, $8,000; John Murtha, $4,000; Charlie Rangel, $2,000, and many other liberal organizations and members of Congress.

Instead of listening to what the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq has to say, Gabby has decided that she would rather walk arm-in-arm with MoveOn.org and play politics with an very important issue. Yet at the same time claims she wants to see success in Iraq. After returning from a February trip to Iraq with Senator Kyl, Gabby told the Nogales International newspaper that if the Democrats ever tried to put a bill in Congress that would cut off funding to the troops she would vote against it. Yet barely a month later, she voted in favor of HR 1591, the Democrats bill to cut off funding for the troops. Then in April she went so far as to say that “There is not a huge terrorist presence in Iraq.”

When Gabby has become so close to MoveOn.org and the ultra-liberal leadership in Congress, we should not expect anything else from her except ultra-liberal views and votes on Iraq, or anything else for that matter.

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