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Active-duty military readers and military bloggers: If you’d like to send a message to the treacherous Harry Reid–who just declared the war in Iraq lost today–e-mail me or leave a trackback. I’ll reprint/link them here as they come in. Here is Reid’s contact form. He really needs to hear [...]

The Party of Cut and Run cuts and runs again:
Democrats Would Make Iraq Timetable in Bill ‘Advisory’
By Peter Baker and Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, April 19, 2007; Page A18
Congressional Democratic leaders are moving to make their proposed timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq “advisory” as they seek to reconcile two versions of war [...]

Marc Danziger is raising money to fight retreatist politicians:
I’m a liberal Democrat (pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-progressive taxation, pro-equal rights, pro-environmental regulation, pro-public schools) who supported and supports the war in Iraq. As I tell my liberal friends “Did I miss the part where it was progressive not to fight medieval religious fascists?”
I’ve been waiting for [...]

Since January 1, I’ve published nearly 2,400 blog posts of all shapes, sizes, and subject matter. Many readers have asked for follow-ups on stories that especially touched their hearts, boiled their blood, and otherwise piqued their interest in a lasting way. Here are a few updates:
What ever happened to Haleigh Poutre?

The state of Massachusetts almost [...]

Merriam-Webster announced theirs over the weekend. Here are your nominations. Readers sent in a few entries coined in previous years, but they’ve held their currency, so they made the cut:

What’s the word/phrase of the year?

Absolute Moral Authority

Cartoon Rage

Culture of corruption

Cut and run

Fauxtography

[Fill-in-the-blank]-gate (Plame, Foley, Jamil, etc.)

[Fill-in-the-blank] Derangement Syndrome (Bush, Rove, Diebold, etc.)

The flying imams

Reconquista

Sharia

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More end-of-the-year [...]

Dirtbag then, dirtbag now
My woman-to-woman advice for Nancy Pelosi today: To clean a house, you take the garbage out, not in.
Jan. 12, 2006: Pelosi Announces ‘Clean House Team’ to Address Republican Culture of Corruption
“It is long past time for the Congress to address the systemic Republican culture of corruption that has undermined the American people’s [...]

(Photoshop: Kathy Y.)
They can’t be serious, can they? Oh, yes they are.
The Hill newspaper reports. You deride:
Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threw her support behind Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) for majority leader Sunday, giving a significant boost to Murtha in his race against Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.).
“Your strong voice for national security, the war on terror [...]

The good, the bad, the ugly.
Wizbang coverage *Livebloggers: Will Hinton * Drumwaster * Sister Toldjah * Ed Morrissey
Summation so far: The Joementum is gone. And Cynthia won’t be doing the electric slide tonight. Instapundit rounds up election coverage. Pajamas Media is wall-to-wall. Mortman: Happier days. Video of Lamont’s cut-and-run victory speech.

***update: Kerry-Feingold defeated 86-13. Levin-Reed defeated 60-39.***

Ouch.
Like the hapless Simpsons’ character who can’t stop walking into rakes, the Democrat Party is set to thwack itself in the head again today with two votes to pull out troops from Iraq with no regard for the conditions on the ground.
WaPo:
Yesterday’s lengthy Senate debate over Iraq offered early [...]

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They were “barbarically” killed, according to the Washington Post. Allah has more–and notes that the next of kin have yet to be notified. Keep them in your prayers.
An uncle of one of the soldiers is criticizing the government. Newsbusters has more.
Thanks to John Little for linking to PFC Tucker’s last recorded phone message [...]

Ian’s got the video of Murtha on Meet The Press. Transcript here.
After criticizing Karl Rove’s “fat backside,” Murtha put forth his fat-headed Okinawa plan:
MR. RUSSERT: You say redeploy. Again, Mr. Rove challenges that comment.
Let’s listen and give you again a chance to respond to the White House.
(Videotape, Monday):
MR. ROVE: Congressman Murtha said, “Let’s redeploy them [...]

On May 18th, I was one of many bloggers on the Right to condemn Democrat Rep. John Murtha for blabbing about the still-not-complete investigation of alleged war atrocities by Marines at Haditha. (Formal findings are not expected for several weeks.) Since Murtha’s widely broadcast accusations of Marines killing civilians “in cold blood,” at least one [...]

Austin Bay takes down Grandfather Moonbat Walter Cronkite, patron saint of the Cut-and-Run crowd:
Walter Cronkite is channeling John Murtha– or worse. According to the AP, Cronkite said regarding Iraq: “It’s my belief that we should get out now,” Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters.” Cronkite is a defeatist and –frankly– he’s out of touch…
…Cronkite [...]

Mudville Gazette has the details on an Army soldier who confronted Dem Reps. John Murtha and Jim Moran at a town hall meeting in Arlington, Va. Greyhawk transcribed the confrontation:
“Yes sir my name is Mark Seavey and I just want to thank you for coming up here. Until about a month ago I was Sgt [...]

A brilliant Six Meat Buffet creation:

It’s the perfect moonbat Christmas gift!
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Best comment so far: “Are there instructions in French?”
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Related:
Paul Mirengoff analyzes the Dems’ “Cut-and-Run-Lite” strategy.
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True colors
Howard the Coward Dean
Howard Dean’s true colors
Mark Steyn on the Defeaticrat Party.

The new “Retreat and Defeat” video on the White Flag Democrats is here.
I still think the GOP needs to disseminate this photo far and wide, too:

Vice President Dick Cheney is set to give a major speech this morning defending the Iraq war at the American Enterprise Institute.
The Washington Times editorializes:
Ever since Mr. Bush’s Veteran’s Day speech rebutting the canard that he lied the country into war, congressional Democrats and parts of the mainstream media have responded by coming up with [...]

I wouldn’t interrupt the backbone vs. cut-and-run blogging for just anything tonight, but this one knocked my socks off.
Apparently, it isn’t bad enough that Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe first destroyed his country’s economy by forcibly removing white farmers from their land.
Then, after successfully chasing away every hard currency generation means Zimbabwe had [...]

I want to thank Michelle for inviting me to blog on her page. It’s been fun, but I’ll be happy to return to my little blog now that Michelle will be returning home from her peregrinations. Stop on by sometime when you’re cruising the blogosphere.
Here are some miscellaneous stories around the web.
There is [...]

Josh Trevino notes that No End But Victory is liveblogging a procedural vote to authorize a vote on withdrawal from Iraq here. Keep checking back. As of 5:49pm EST:
5:49 PM Eastern: Vote Update: 65 For, 102 Against
GOP: 65 For, 5 Against
DEM: 0 For, 97 Against
More liveblogging at Euphoric Reality.
Lucianne.com readers react.
Instapundit round-up links to The [...]

Much thanks to Michelle for letting me guest blog here this week and to her wonderful readers for their kind emails. If you enjoyed my posts here this week, please visit Polipundit, where I blog daily along with four guys that always have something interesting to say.
I suppose it is pretty evident from the [...]

Was once in thirty years not enough? Like the deadly black mold in New Orleans, the calls to cut and run in Iraq are spreading.
Warning that other global threats “cannot be ignored,” Rep. John Murtha, D-Pennsylvania, a leading adviser on defense issues, called on Thursday for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from [...]

Quote of the morning comes from the sports page. I’m not a baseball fan, so I hadn’t heard about the slapping incident involving a Houston Astros baseman’s wife at Chicago’s ballpark on Sunday night. The wife of Astros second baseman Craig Biggio was smacked by a male fan who cut and run. Biggio’s wife chased [...]

Via AP:
Prominent Senate Republicans said Tuesday that closing the Guantanamo Bay prison will not fix a U.S. image tarnished by allegations of American troops mistreating terrorism suspects.
“To cut and run because of image problems is the wrong, wrong thing to do,” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said.
Hey, maybe the GOP leadership is finally listening:
The new [...]

Last week, I criticized President Bush for equivocating on the Gitmo question. Rumsfeld tried to do damage control then. And Dick Cheney will be attempting to do so again on FNC’s Hannity and Colmes tonight. But it’s too late.
A Republican anti-Gitmo brigade has been born:
- Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) joined the Left’s Guantanamo Bay-bashers [...]

NRO’s James S. Robbins takes apart the so-called “smoking gun” war memo that has the Left in a tizzy.
More from Kevin Aylward at Wizbang.

Canada rejects American-in-name-only deserter Jeremy Hinzman’s asylum bid.
Loser.
Where will he head next? Your suggestions?
Update: Several votes already for Iceland, where Bobby Fischer will be taking refuge.