The Pledge: C’mon, sign a loyalty oath so we don’t stop killing brown people
Somehow, guys like Hugh Hewitt wonder why everyone thinks that he is one of many Americans furiously masturbating to the thought of living in a dictatorship.
Ok, I kid. Hewitt doesn’t care. He’s an entertainer, he could care less about any of this crap provided he gets ratings and hits. Nonetheless, once anyone starts thinking that signing a loyalty oath to the President’s war plan is a good idea, things have started to go off track.
Just how is it that people who used angrily used the term “nanny state” for decades, now would gladly live in a one-party system, where their voice is ignored.
But if that’s your thing, go sign the pledge:
If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.
Seriously, these are people that think signing a loyalty oath is positive idea for a democracy. Ahh, who am I kidding. The people that think signing a loyalty oath is a good idea despise democracies, and feel much safer letting the oligarchs make their decisions. And their willing to sign a pledge like a child to show their submission.
–WKW