Time to Make Left-wing Municipalities Pay for Anti-Military Policies

Following the "bicycle bomber's" attack against the recruiting station in New York's Times Square, it is time for the Bush administration to make those on the Left who, "support the troops, but hate the war," to pay the price for their anti-military incitement activities.

Yes, Code Pinkos, I'm talking about you...and the others of your ilk who so hate our nation and out troops that you interfere with our military's ability to recruit young men to serve in our military.

The Left has been allowed to get away with the same old canard, "We support the troops, but not the mission," for long enough. Why don't you find the "guts" to tell the truth for once?

What I find so contemptible in Liberals is that they lack the courage of their convictions. People like Cindy Sheehan and Nancy Pelosi always open their attacks against our young men and women in uniform with that meaningless affront to veracity.

What do Liberals mean when they say "I support our troops?" Just pay attention. What they think about our military is evident from their every action...

"Our troops are thugs and I have absolute contempt for their intelligence, their morals, their belief system, their values, their actions, the nation for which they fight, and everything for which they stand, but I don't have the courage to say so publicly."

What you get as a result is the inane blather of someone whose words are self-contradictory such as Madame Speaker in a Left-wing love-fest on the Charlie Rose show on PBS, March of last year (before the troop surge really took hold). Here is part of the transcript from "A conversation with Nancy Pelosi"

CHARLIE ROSE: Some argue that the sacrifice had been primarily by the men and women in the armed services and their families. And part of the reason that we ought not go to war, in which the American people are not asked to sacrifice behind the military.

NANCY PELOSI : Well, the one percent of our population is feeling this in a very personal way. And that`s just not fair. The shared sacrifice -- what did we do? We went to war, and the president gave a tax cut to the wealthiest people in America instead of saying we’re going to have a shared sacrifice here so everyone knows what the cost of this war is.

But we have -- the long-term costs of this war in Iraq are tremendous. You can`t even quantify them when you talk about the breakup of marriages, the mental challenges that many of our troops are coming home with, the domestic violence that is occurring, the divorce rates in the military. This is -- this is a different flavor than we have seen before.

How nice. Here we have the Speaker of the House, second in line for the Presidency of the United States, who "supports our troops," calling our returning troops wife-beaters and crazies. Isn't that just so special. She is so concerned for the welfare of our troops that she has chosen to slander them with lies which are simply not supported out by the data.

What else is one to conclude, but that this woman, our very own Wicked Witch of the Left, has nothing but contempt for our men and women in uniform. Pelosi is only one of the most visible of the many Liberals who have such contempt for our troops that they aren't even aware that it shows.

You know them. They are the people who tell the lies about our returning war veterans. That our troops rape and kill at random, that they are "going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs." [courtesy of John F. Kerry-Heinz] Lies about our troops committing "atrocities" are perpetuated by those on the Left, because they fit the Liberal paradigm of who our troops are.

Liberals are so filled with hatred for our nation and everything for which it stands that it colors their opinions of any who disagree with them...including those who choose to serve in our armed forces, whether out a sense of obligation, patriotism, or for more mercenary motives, such as an opportunity to gain a better education.

In the Liberal paradigm, the only people who serve in our armed services are "poor people who have no other prospect for employment," or "ignorant people" who can't get a job anywhere else and who are too stupid to see that they are being "duped" by their government, so Liberal contempt for them flows easily.

Of course they do reserve a third category of veteran; Liberals who want to burnish their credentials before running for office. Most of those serve in the rear echelon and make up tales of heroism about themselves...you know the type, Al Gore and John Kerry come to mind.

Well, I say it is time for President Bush and what few Conservative Republicans remain in Congress to make these jerks pay for their hate and the best way I can think of is for President Bush to issue an executive order that any municipality which through action or inaction allows the business of our federal government to be hindered by individuals acting illegally would immediately be stripped of all federal funds. And when I say all, I mean all. No education funds, no grants, no highway funds, no construction projects, no federal funding for police or fire protection, nothing whatsoever, until that municipality enforces the law and protects those recruiting stations.

The fact is that although congress has appropriated funds for various projects, the Executive branch is not required to spend the money, or at least, wasn't required to do so for almost 200 years. From Jefferson to Nixon, the President had the power to "impound" monies, i.e. the President could simply refuse to spend all of the money congress appropriated.

In 1974 congress, facing a president who was not afraid to impound monies, passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 restricting that previously constitutional authority.

I would urge the president to re-assert that executive power and allow the challenge to reach the Supreme Court. It is time for the usurpation of power by the post Watergate congress to be reversed. This administration did a good job in the first term in rolling back some of that congressional overreaching, but those efforts seem to be on hold now.

I can think of no greater legacy President Bush could leave than the complete reversal of the congressional imperialism of the 1970's. He should ignore the 1974 law as unconstitutional and allow congress to sue his administration. Let the SCOTUS decide this issue once and for all.

I believe that the Executive Branch could make a very good case based on historical precedent and on the fact that Congress provided no viable alternative to impoundment. The 1974 law does allow for a "rescission" of appropriated funds, but congress must affirm the rescission within 45 days or it becomes moot, and congress has never even bothered to bring a presidential rescission up for an affirmation vote.

The other alternative provided by the 1974 Act was the power of "deferral," but in 1987 The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that a 1983 Supreme Court decision, which declared that all "legislative veto" provisions authorizing congress to override Presidential decision by means short of passing legislation were unconstitutional, effectively wiped out the deferral provision of the 1974 law.

Therefore the 1974 law leaves the president without recourse. Given that the power of impoundment was a long standing accepted power or had, using the Liberals favorite legal phrase, considerably well established stare decisis, and given that congress' actions in 1974 were an effort by the Legislative Branch to restrict the powers of a separate and independent Executive Branch, I believe that there is substantial grounds for overturning the 1974 congressional power grab.

If Berkeley and Lawrence among others don't see the need to support our military, then let's withhold all of their discretionary funds. Perhaps this "whiff of [fiscal] grapeshot" will bring these Left-wing loonies to their senses...or knees. Either way it would be a good thing.

Let's allow these ingrates, who revile our military and all for which it stands to foot the bill for their hostility and impound all funds allocated to towns such as Berkeley, California and Lawrence, Kansas. Perhaps that would get the attention of these so-called representatives of the people and encourage them to perform their duties.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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