The list of Democrat ostriches ( traitors? ) is quite a bit longer than their Senate Democrat counterparts list! After passing in the House Armed Services Committe 50 to 3 ( take a wild guess as to which party the three opposers belonged to ), the Republican Curt Weldon authored House Resolution 4, the National Missile Defense Bill, was debated and passed the full House today ( 3-18-99 ). During this debate, a large group of extreme far left wing bleeding heart liberal Democrats got to show the viewing public their true colors, on C-Span!

This bill is a very simple one, and it appropriates no money. It is fifteen words long, and consists of the following sentence: " That it is the policy of the United States to deploy a national missile defense ". As David Dreier ( R ), Rules Committee Chairman said, quoting the Founding Fathers, " To provide for the common defense ". He continued, " This fifteen word bill is simple. You are either for it or against it "!

Representitive Tom Allen ( D ) seemed to be the king ostrich or Benedict Arnold in leading the opposition to this basic measure ( it sort of made me wonder how the GI looking into the radar screen at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 felt? ). The liberal Democrat rodents scurried around squeaking how HR.4 was a " Republican partisan effort " and from the lips of Allen himself, " HR.4 does not address the real threat "? Allen used the bad faith arguement of listing other threats and asking why they were not included in the bill ( with terrorist bombs and chemical attack numbers one and two on his hit list ). While Barney Frank argues House procedure and process, in defense of his oppostion of the bill, the knee-jerk liberal Democrats lined up to whine about how the bill violated the 1972 ABM Treaty, the United States signed with the now defunct CCCP!

Dreier attempted to yield back his time so that the vote to open debate could be taken. He repeatedly yielded to the blabbering Barney Frank ( D ), with the resulting stream of projectile vomit, an illogical arguement. Amongst multiple chants of " will the gentleman yield " from Frank, in a loud and obnoxious interrupting manner; Dreier finally was able to close this initial period of debate. All Republicans voted yea, but sadly, they were only joined by twenty-four Democrats!

Representitive Floyd Spence ( R ) Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, opened debate on the resolution with an example of how the system could protect the United States from an accidentally launched Russian ICBM. He invoked the specter of Pearl Harbor and discussed how Bill Clinton vetoed the missile defense measure in 1995. In the light of recent events concerning the sale and/or theft of secret nuclear missile technology by the communist dictatorship of the People's Republic of China ( Red China! ), it really makes me wonder why the President did such a thing? Spence pointed out that Clinton merely said, " there was no threat " and had the CIA politicize the story with a report supporting his position!

Representitive Ike Skelton ( D ), the Ranking Member on the Armed Services Committee, rose in support of HR.4!

Representitive Curt Weldon ( R ) continued the debate from the side which favored passage of the resolution by declaring that, if it is implimented, it would cost the U.S. taxpayer less than what we have spent on the Clinton-ordered military deployment in the Balkans, as well as less than what the EPA spends on envirnmental clean-up in a year! Republican after Republican and a handful of Democrats came forward to support HR.4, citing the threat of an accidental or limited ICBM attack on the United States. They remarked about North Korean missile advances and a bold threat by a Red Chinese general to nuke Los Angeles! None of these supporters even remotely suggested that this defensive system was designed to stop an all out nuclear attack from Russia!

Then came a march of slithering Democrat pseudopodia who each had their own twisted take on why we shouldn't protect our beloved country, like the city of Moscow has been since the early 1970s:

Barbara Lee ( D ) called it " a blank check to defense contractors ". Funny, I didn't see any award of contracts or money in those fifteen words? She thought we should have " tougher arms control...and efforts against terrorism ". She cited the Democrat anti-HR.4 mantra of ' how easy it is to bring illegal weapons of mass destruction into the USA '. Hey, arms control and fighting international terrorism sounds great to me; but does that mean we can't have a missile defense as well? One just does not preclude the other!

Jan Schakowsky ( D ) thought HR.4 was " not the best and most direct route to security "? She finished with, " we should cancel this and push arms control "? Oh man, we should be glad that these bleeding heart liberals didn't have control of the Whitehouse when it really counted. Otherwise, we would be speaking Russian right now instead of thanking Ronald Reagan for bringing down the Berlin Wall!

Lynn Woolsey ( D ) invoked the old " Duck and Cover " turtle from the short film of the 1950s and suggested this missile shield would give us " a false sense of security ".

John Lewis ( D ) thought this was a sermon, calling HR.4 a " pie in the sky boondoggle ". Seeking to create some sound bites for national television, he continued with some catchy phrases like, they are putting " bombs over babies " and " missiles over medicine ". Sheesh, how unimaginative!

Lloyd Doggett ( D ) called it " political mythology, not technology ". I guess he surrenders that the Russians in 1972 are smarter than we are in 1999?

Tom Allen ( D ) couldn't restrain himself and came to the microphone again, saying " We can't afford this bill, vote no ". But there is no funding in this fifteen word bill, Tom?

Sam Gejdenson ( D ) pleaded that , " we don't have anything that works "? Well, just scream surrender, Sam!

Rush Holt ( D ) was the only representitive to have obviously talked to the three Democrat stooges in the Senate, as he invoked the French Maginot Line talking point. Very unimaginative; more unimaginative than John Lewis was!

Sam Farr ( D ) said we should send the money to South America as a handout to the victims of hurricane Mitch. What money, Sam? Are we now going to offer the entire world those left wing socialist entitlements that are paid for by the U.S. taxpayer?

Brad Sherman ( D ), to his credit, partially agreed with his above Democrat cohorts saying, " Smuggling things into the United States is demonstrably easy ", but finished with, " I still support HR.4 "!

Representitive Bernie Sanders ( I ), usually a poor xerox of an ultra-liberal Democrat, didn't disappoint the television audience. He used his time to engage in a litany of sickeningly sweet extreme far left wing socialist rhetoric, with illogical references like we should really be concerned " whether millions of senior citizens get their perscription drugs ". He went on and on about other issues like " veteran's hospitals funding " and " no money for college " for poor family's kids. This guy is out of control, man!

Tom Allen had a ridiculous rewrite of the bill as a motion to recommit. The funny thing about that, was Bernie Sanders voted no on it after voting no one the measure itself?

On final passage the vote was 317 yea and 102 nay. Two Republicans voted nay, and so did Bernie Sanders again! The funniest thing was that C-Span kept flashing this during the vote, " The President's policy calls for a decision in June 2000 ". Yeah sure man, so the issue can be further twisted by Clinton to benefit DNC candidates in the November elections?

- Bongo ( The Senate debate on a ballistic missile defense bill is here: Hark(in); do I smell a traitor? ( 3-18-99 ) . )