Keith Ellison desperately tring to prove to Glenn Beck that he’s not an enemy of the U.S.
(Updated below)
When CNN’s Glenn Beck said this to Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison:
“I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.’
One would have thought that Ellison understood that Beck’s an insane entertainer who’ll say anything he thinks will get him noticed, and was hired by a news channel desperate to appeal to the 70-and-older club. Sadly, it appears Ellison is trying to show Beck that he can be as bloodthirsty and interested in endless war as any red-blooded American loon.
Democrats hunt for votes to set Iraq deadline
House Democrats say they are determined to change course in Iraq, but their leaders are still trying to gather the votes to make that happen.
A vote is scheduled for Friday, but Democratic leaders say that if they don’t have the numbers, it won’t happen.
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, said they’re at least one or two votes short of the 218 needed to pass binding legislation with a firm deadline — August 31, 2008 — for combat troops to leave Iraq.
The deadline is contained in a supplemental funding bill — legislation that President Bush has promised to veto if it contains such a provision.
The biggest resistance isn’t coming from the other side of the aisle — although Republicans are mostly united in opposition — but rather from a handful of undecided Democrats, including freshmen Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Brad Ellsworth of Indiana and Hank Johnson of Georgia.
Ellison’s stance on this issue must perplex Fox News’ John Gibson, who has already written off the entire state of Minnesota as an enemy of the State, in his rant: Minnesota: America’s First Somali-Muslim State?
Update: Ellison voted for the resolution, which George Bush then misrepresented and promised to veto. The way to “support the troops” it appears, is to send them into never-ending battles, and then ignore them after they’ve served as fodder.
–WKW