BREAKING: IN A TANTRUM OVER POSITIVE IRAQ NEWS, BOYDA STORMS FROM COMMITTEE MEETING
Stay Red Kansas has just learned that earlier this morning, our distinguished Congresswomen Nancy Boyda stormed out of a House Armed Services Committee meeting as had reportedly grown too frustrated with an Army General’s assessment of the war effort in Iraq. Why? Because it was too positive for her pessimistic ears.
During the speech, retired Army General Jack Keane elaborated on the recent successes made by our troops, and more specifically, those associated with the troop surge deployment authored by former Leavenworth Commander David Petraeus.
Boyda, presumably speaking for the Majority of her Democratic colleagues, had reportedly heard all she ‘could take’ and left the room in protest after having to ‘listen to what we listened to.’
After Nancy’s tantrum was over, making her look every bit the childish Freshmen she is, Boyda returned wishing to add a few notes to the record, claiming that Keane’s views would ‘show up in the media’ and would ‘further divide this Country.’
With any luck, Boyda’s assessment that Keane’s views will find their way into newspaper headlines and television clips will be correct. If so, the only division that might result is within Boyda’s already-fractured ‘defeat in Iraq’ base.
We find it incredibly disturbing, to say the very least, that Nancy Boyda has grown so encouraged by our enemy’s successes in Iraq that she couldn’t even stomach a discussion of our own – and this is only where the contradictions begin.
Does Boyda, always the proponent of ‘fairness’ in the media, believe that the negative developments in Iraq – the daily death counts, car bombs, terrorist ‘resurgence,’ etc. – is the only news worth discussing?
Since day one, it’s been apparent that Nancy Boyda cares a heck of a lot more about winning elections than impacting positive change in Congress, but this takes that self-involved portrait of Nancy to an entirely new level.
Boyda actually would rather have a strongly motivated anti-War electorate than a public knowledgeable about the daily successes and victories our troops are achieving in Iraq.
Stay Red would like to go on record in agreement with General Keane and the troops he so proudly supported. Despite the offensive impression given by Kansas’ ‘Voice in Congress’, the Sunflower State is firmly behind the troops – not the Anti-War Democrats.
Still developing…
Someone, anyone, please try to defend her actions. I am anxious to hear the spin cycle begin.
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Anyone interested in real Republican dialogue needs to head over to GOP Insider blog where they are actually discussing this weekend's GOP convention instead of these People Magazine snippets.
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Great discussion about the convention here: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=845950835100863291&postID=8651180711490954449
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this actually happened last week...nancy isn't back in DC yet about being home this weekend.
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C'mon, SRK, let's talk about Kobach's shiny new "Loyalty Committee." Enough avoiding the issue.
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Maybe you haven't noticed but SRK would rather pick out nebulous articles about Boyda and Moore rather than talk about anything embarassing like the Loyalty Committee or Titus Bond.
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Sounds like the KTRM posters here care more about attacking each other than Democrats like Boyda. Sad state of Kansas...
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Actually, it looks like the Loyalty Committee, along with the state committee's attempt to remove Steve Cloud, is attacking everyone else.
Beat up on KTRM all you want. You know for a fact traditional Republicans in this state want nothing to do with the extremist agenda that some in the party are forcing.
Anyhow, if we're going to talk about KTRM, why not talk about KRA and KRAA? Do they have to take "loyalty oaths" too?
Didn't think so.
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Possibly because they don't actively fund and support candidates that switch parties? I don't know..it's just a thought.
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The head of KRA ran for state senate in 2004 as a reform party candidate. Other KRA board members supported reform party candidate in third district when Taff was running for office.
See, the conservatives think that "loyalty" is a good thing when they are the beneficiary. However, they have no "loyalty" when it means supporting a prochoice candidate.
Don't you remember the mass defections to support Finney over Hayden? Every high profile in the state walked on Hayden to support Finney because she was prolife.
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Conservatives still haven't learned that attacking Dems alone doesn't win elections. All they do is laugh at Sebelius, Moore and Boyda while the Dems beat them like a drum. It takes good candidates who run in the middle.
All Republicans should get behind KTRM and get rid of the KRA fools running the party. Then, mods and real conservatives could debate issues. KTRM is actually trying to get Republicans elected; what a radical concept.
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You're right. Let KTRM run the party. It's been four years since the conservatives took over. All they've done is force some of our best candidates into the arms of the Democrats and bankrupt the organization.
Funny, the conservatives seem to manage the state party about as well as they manage government. Maybe these conservatives just aren't fit to lead.
It's time to dump the conservatives and put the moderates back in charge.
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Boyda is a fraud and a fake and bad for the 2nd district and the United States. I
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Here's the only point of suspense: are you really this much of a moron or are you only pretending?
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Here's how we lose elections: an idiot democrat gives us a great story. The 'moderates' don't notice, since all they want to do is make sure a conservative doesn't take the seat.
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This is a tough few days for the slow-witted, so Boyda's hasn't figured out how to handle the brand new Democrat talking points: maybe the surge is working, maybe we can win (dang it all!).
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On a slightly more serious note, the assessment given by Gen. Keane also coincides with an op-ed in the New York Times which states we might actually win in Iraq. Two reporters spent a week or so in Iraq and found high troop moral, and progress by coalition and Iraqi ground forces to push back terrorists, among other positive signs.
Is it the light at the end of the tunnel? No, but if the mouthpiece of the liberal left has an op-ed like this no wonder Nancy had a hissy.
Allowing the generals, instead of Congress, to fight the war is a winning issue for Republicans. I hope Ryun and Jenkins make an effort to remind voters what a cretin Boyda (and the Democratic leadrship) is on defense issues.
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