Good for Sue Myrick and good for us all.
In this trend of selling out the interests of US Citizens, Myrick does what is right for the country and right for the voters even when its not the popular thing to do. Myrick says what is right and shows personal integrity above personal gain or political positioning.
Integrity is standing up in the face of lost popularity.
Integrity is respecting the office of United States President, even if not the man.
An elected official is worth their public opinion. Popular seems to have long outweighed what is right in this modern day popularity and “no integrity” contest which is elected office.
So that my Opinion of George W Bush is out there, and never again needed to be explained.
I dont think hes a good president, I dont think hes the thinker and man of passion that we need in the office during a hard time.
I do think Mr Bush is very likely a great guy. I think there is a good chance that if he was on your couch spending the night with your family you would come away thinking he was a very American and fun person, I think you would find him funny and down to earth. I like Bush when he is in a baseball cap and pickup speaking with no worry of press spin. I dont though after saying all this think he is a strong leader. So for the final record, I like him personally and he sems like a real fun down to earth man, but he isnt a strong leader at a time when we neded one.
Back to the point of the rant.
Myrick respected the office of president by showing support for what is right as opposed to distancing herself for her own popular gain.
I support the troops, and the head troop is the president. If you feel the cause is wrong you need to dicuss problems with motivation and not problems with what has already been done.
I watched a live video the other day of Hillary Clinton, a person that has done everything in her career only with the purpose of furthering her own career.
This live video showed her saying “If I was president in 2002 I would have not gone to war”.
I also watched a live video on Glenn Beck the other night of Hillary standing at the podium casting her ballet in 2002. She grandstanded for her own gain and announced “I fully support this decision for war!”
I THEN, watched a video from about one month ago where a reporter asked her if she would admit that she did vote FOR the war, and did she feel now it was a mistake and she has changed her mind.
She responded “If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for war”. I think a 10 year old knows hind site is 20/20, and even Bush may not have if he knew the fallout he has gotten from it. To stand on TV running for president and speak from hindsight instead of admitting you made the exact same mistake in judgement as the president is juvinille. What is worse than making a mistake, is being a hypocrit about it, and then compound this with pretending you knew better when you are on tape claimning to fully support the war.
I can better stomach and forgive poor decisions, if thats what you feel Bush has made, but there is no forgiving calculated lies with the intention of getting a personal career advance.
Flip flopping is the right of all people as information changes, but doing so just to be popular and not to be right is a shameful act of a person with no integrity.
So today the Congress voted on a non-binding resolution.
Non binding (Meaningless) & resolution (non law non anything).
Today the congres voted for nothing just to grandstand themselves and try to absolve themselves of responsibility of war. As our future president Rudy Giuliani said to Larry King, “we dont pay them to comment we pay them to make decisions”.
I am only sorry my own job doesn’t allow me to “pretend-work”, and state that it is just pretend work, and then collect a check for accomplishing what I admit is nothing.
Sue Myrick said what we are all thinking durting a time whn I think no elected official has any idea what the american population is thinking.
“This is not a Democrat and Republican issue - our security is an American issue,” said N.C. Rep. Sue Myrick, R-9th. “It’s downright irresponsible to tell out troops that we support you, but we don’t support the mission that you are fighting.”
Source: Winston Salem Journal
But this is what happened to day. The congress stood up and did nothing, got paid more than you or I to do nothing, and even called it nothing with the name “non binding resolution”.
Long gone are the days of the working class or on the street style elected official.
Or are they gone?
I think a real slap you on the back man who we can respect for they way he is in the morning with bed head, and the way he is at night watching stupid american television and laughing with friends. I may have to inspect a bit closer but so far I really like the feeling I get when I listen to the frank tone and honest working class speech of Rudy Giuliani.
While we see elected officials cower in fear of their jobs and the marketability of their careers, I am glad to have someone here in the Charlotte area like Sue Myrick who once again said what we take as common sense. Doing this seems like what we all hope an elected official will do on our behalf.
Unpopular but correct issue #2: Immigration
While we have our best interests sold out by most politicians so they can get in on the vote grab of the future, Myrick again does what is right.
Instead of trying to offer some form of Voter status to illigals so you can then use them to keep your job or better your parties voter base, Myrick does what is right which is to enforce the law.
Abraham Lincoln said “Any law, no matter how unjust, MUST be enforced until the time at which it is changed.” (looseley quoted).
As NC is now the state with the second highest illegal population in the country and we are not even a border state, it can only be bad policy that is so attrcactive. Myrick is leading the charge to enforce the law while the rest of our 6-figure salary representatives and chasing only votes.
“Rep. Sue Myrick, a Republican whose congressional district encompasses Charlotte, is a big supporter of the 287(g) program and a staunch advocate of tougher immigration enforcement.
Myrick met in early January with border agent Jose Alonso Compean, who was set to begin a 12-year prison sentence for shooting an undocumented immigrant who was reportedly attempting to smuggle hundreds of pounds of marijuana into the country. Myrick called the government “un-American” for turning its back on Compean and a colleague, men who, she said, “put their lives on the line for our country.”
I am innagurating and kicking off the politics section of our news blog with a post to honor Sue Myrick for doing what is hard but correct in the issues that affect us all.
I also giving the Nod to Rudy for speaking the way we want to be spoken to at a time when doubletalk just leaves such a rotten taste in the voters mouths.
I am starving for some honest and integrity, and I think we have a great example here in Charlotte with Myrick, and we will have an example of a real man’s-man in office in 2008.
As of right now, you can see a link on our site to Rudy’s website, and to Sues website. I wont put any red or blue on our site because parties warp more than they fix. I feel parties only ruin the beliefs of many people that start out as dirty elbowed americans by making them conform to a party line of group thinking. I am happy to see a few of these politicians that have kept a slight sense of touch with the people that employ them.
If a “D or an R” does the right thing, I will salute them accordingly.
