Kerfuffles

The guy who writes the immensely popular liberal blog, “Daily Kos” has found an old time, red-blooded patriot that he likes. Believe it or not, the man who wrote that American contractors working in Iraq deserved to be murdered by terrorists, has taken a shine to our own Virginian, Patrick Henry.

Yes, it was liberal darling Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga himself, who penned these words while gloating over the brutal murders of four American citizens who were working as civilian contractors in Fallujah, Iraq: “I feel nothing over the death of merceneries (sic). They aren’t in Iraq because of orders, or because they are there trying to help the people make Iraq a better place. They are there to wage war for profit. Screw them.”

Yesterday found Kos writing glowingly of our Virginia hero, Patrick Henry:

“When our nation was founded, we had men of real character and courage fighting for their nascent America, one in which liberty and freedom trumped the authorative (sic) tendencies of the monarchy. Patrick Henry gave words to those efforts: ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’“

Kos probably thinks that because Patrick Henry did not take up arms during the American Revolution, that he must have been the Democrats’ kind of patriot. Well think again, Kos and the rest of you lily-liver, lame liberals. Patrick Henry literally risked his very neck with the words he ranted against our enemy. He was as much a warrior as anyone with a musket, and he would have been strung up by the British far quicker than any uniformed enlistee.

Hear Patrick Henry’s famous words reenacted; listen to the rallying cries of that great God-fearing Virginian and decide for yourself if anyone at “Daily Kos” would ever agree with such fiery rhetoric, preached at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. Before Henry ever arrived at the phrase about liberty and death, he shouted “WE MUST FIGHT!” and he repeated, “WE MUST FIGHT“, calling upon the GOD of HOSTS!

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (audio)

P.S. If you are a Liberal, or a Democrat, I implore you to please listen to the words of our great founding father Patrick Henry, and perhaps you will be moved to join the right side of this, our generation’s, historic battle before it is too late to save your body and soul. (Linked at Captain’s Quarters)

UPDATE 3/27/2006: “Expose the Left” writes that Markos Moulitsas of The Daily Kos is a communist and has the video from CNN’s Reliable Sources to back him up. Hmm …

His Message to the Troops Now Fighting For Freedom and the American Way - the tiresome and worn Democrat mantra -Hell, no! Don’t go.

Congressman John Murtha is a decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps. The once brave soldier has been morphed by his Democrat comrades into a Cindy Sheehan wannabe. This is what the former Marine said on ABC News’ “Nightline”, according to a release today from Reuters:

“Would you join (the military) today?,” he was asked in an interview taped on Friday.

“No,” replied Murtha of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees defense spending and one of his party’s leading spokesmen on military issues.

“And I think you’re saying the average guy out there who’s considering recruitment is justified in saying ‘I don’t want to serve’,” the interviewer continued.

“Exactly right,” said Murtha,

Irving Kristol wrote in “My Cold War”: “What began to concern me more and more were the clear signs of rot and decadence germinating within American society-a rot and decadence that was no longer the consequence of liberalism but was the actual agenda of contemporary liberalism. . . . Sector after sector of American life has been ruthlessly corrupted by the liberal ethos. It is an ethos that aims simultaneously at political and social collectivism on the one hand, and moral anarchy on the other.”

Old Lessons to Remember for 2006

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…”

~~John Donne (1572 -1631), Meditation 17, 1624