Obama and his administration are considering a plea bargain that would release a Guantanamo prisoner after eight more years has gotten on the fightin’ side of a key witness against him: a former Army sergeant who was partially blinded and lost a friend in the firefight that led to the capture of the al-Qaida Terrorist.

Layne Morris said Friday that Canadian-born Omar Khadr should get at least 20 years in prison, if not much longer.

According to Morris:

They ought to lock him up until he’s no longer a threat, and if that’s for the rest of his life, so be it.

Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured following the firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, was originally scheduled to go on trial Monday at Gitmo.  The charges against him include murder for throwing a grenade that killed Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a special forces medic from Albuquerque, New Mexico. If convicted, he faces a maximum life sentence.

The trial began in August but was put on hold when Khadr’s defense lawyer fell ill and collapsed in the courtroom.

With plea talks going on, a military judge postponed the resumption of the trial, the first at Guantanamo under President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him). The war crimes tribunal is scheduled to reconvene Oct. 25.  But that could turn into a sentencing hearing if an agreement is reached.

Khadr’s lawyers and U.S. officials have refused to release details about any proposed agreement.  However, the Toronto Star reported that a proposal already approved by the military would impose a sentence of less than 10 years, on top of the time he has already been in custody. Postmedia News, another Canadian outlet, reported that he would get eight, with one more in Guantanamo and the rest in his native country.  (Say what?)  Both cited anonymous sources.

There have been plea talks before, but Khadr himself has resisted, saying it would excuse the harsh treatment he endured during captivity. He also denies throwing the grenade that killed Speer.

Yeh, kid.  Just because they saw you throwing it doesn’t mean you did it.  Doesn’t the Koran tell you that it’s okay to lie to the Infidels?

This case is turning into a big problem for the administration because of his age and the fact that his father, who was killed in 2003, had close ties to senior al-Qaida leaders. His lawyers and human rights groups say Khadr was a child soldier, essentially brainwashed by his family, who should be sent home and rehabilitated.

Yeah, let’s reward this hateful heathen.  Brilliant.

But unlike most war crimes cases at Guantanamo, his involves specific American victims.

Morris, now retired from the Army and living in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, is scheduled to travel to Guantanamo to testify as a witness. He said he appreciates the challenge that prosecutors face with the case but nevertheless hopes for a longer sentence:

Knowing the facts of the case, I would think your average American would be disappointed that somebody who had demonstrated the capacity and the willingness to kill American soldiers would get a mere eight years.  That seems short to me.

Morris is no longer able to see through his right eye because of this precious child’s participation in the assault on the militant stronghold in which Speer was killed.  He said he doesn’t seek a longer sentence out of vengeance but for the sake of his comrade’s family and because he believes Khadr, now 24, remains a danger to the U.S. It wouldn’t matter to him whether Khadr serves prison time in Guantanamo, Canada or somewhere in the U.S.

Preach, brother, preach.

He should get 20 years and then be evaluated to see if he is still a security threat.  And if he is, then he can do another 20 years. And if he has somehow seen the error of his ways, and if someone wants to take a chance with him somewhere in Canada, I would be OK with it.

In a related story:

As dozens of soldiers lay dead or bleeding in a Fort Hood processing center last year, a gunman went outside and continued firing as others ran to nearby buildings, hid behind cars or carried wounded comrades to safety, witnesses told a military court Friday.

Eyewitness accounts of this Terrorist attack came Friday during an Article 32 hearing that will determine whether Maj. Nidal Hasan should stand trial in the Nov. 5 shootings on the Texas Army post. The 40-year-old American-born Muslim has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder. The hearing is to resume Monday.

Sgt. Lamar Nixon testified that he recognized Hasan as the gunman. Nixon, who worked in the building where soldiers must get vaccines and other routine medical tests before deployment, said Hasan had been there two or three times, including the morning of Nov. 5. Hasan had been at the center earlier to get vaccines because he was to be deployed the following month, but Hasan ignored him when Nixon greeted him, the soldier testified.

Nixon said he remembered Hasan because of “his stature and just how he composed himself — stoic.” The next time Nixon saw Hasan, it was after lunch when the psychiatrist stood from behind a front counter and began shooting after yelling “Allahu Akbar!” — “God is great!” in Arabic, Nixon testified.

Also Friday, under cross examination, Pfc. Lance Aviles said he used his cell phone to record the mass murder inside the processing center but was ordered by an officer to delete both videos later the same day. Aviles was not asked if he knew why the officer ordered the videos destroyed.

It’s unclear exactly what the footage showed, although it could have been used as evidence in the case.  However, there is no doubt that the orders to destroy that evidence came from a much higher source than Pvt. Aviles immediate superior.

Prosecutors have not said whether they’ll seek the death penalty if the case goes to trial.

Hasan, who was paralyzed after Fort Hood police shot him that day, remains jailed in the Bell County Jail, which houses suspects for nearby Fort Hood. The military justice system does not have bail for defendants.

The Obama administration decided a long time ago that zealously protecting the rights of bloodthirsty Islamic barbarians seeking to murder Americans somehow shows the world how noble and intelligent they are, thereby laying the groundwork upon which they might someday negotiate away America’s sovereignty.   However, just like the phony outrage of those two failed comediennes at Bill O’Reilly’s comments Thursday morning on The View, Americans see right through it.  And we will express our feelings very clearly on November 2nd.

As I was surfing websites to choose a topic today, nothing in particular jumped out at me.   However, the thought did occur to me that with everything the Democrats have done since taking over Congress in 2007,  everything that Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has said and done since his ascension to the throne of the Regime, and the words and actions of Liberal activist judges, celebrities, and figures within the administration, the “smartest people in the room” have succeeded in creating the perfect political storm.

If I were to list all the mitigating factors and circumstances since 2007, brought on by the Democrats, that have brought us to this seminal point in American history, I would have written the sequel to War and Peace.  So, for brevity and bandwidth’s sake, I’m going to restrict myself to some general impressions.

Beginning in 2007 , a new ship sailed into Washington.  The new Democratic Congress hit the ground running, firm in their belief that leveling the playing field outweighed fiscal responsibility.   Despite such noble aspirations, according to a report on rollcall.com from December 1, 2008:

Members of the 110th Congress introduced nearly 14,000 pieces of legislation, more than any Congress since 1980, but only about 3.3 percent of the bills actually were signed into law, the lowest success rate since 1976.

While the percentage of bills that pass has dropped significantly over the past two decades, the number of ceremonial bills — naming post offices and other federal buildings — has risen dramatically, squashing the substantive work of Congress into fewer and fewer pieces of legislation.

…No Congress since 1975 has introduced fewer pieces of legislation than the 7,991 bills and resolutions offered in the 104th Congress.

That was only the beginning.  Once our “story book” president  took the Oath of Office (twice) and his sycophantic Congress was seated, more frivolity ensued.   Beginning with the Porkulus Bill, written by the radicals at the Apollo Foundation, Obama and his Congressional minions have foisted upon the American people such memorable programs as Cash for Clunkers, a proposal for our veterans to pay for their own medical coverage, and, of course, the Obamanation known as Obamacare.

And through all their hubris and pandering political machinations, they have looked upon the American people with self-righteous arrogance and disdain, tone-deaf and oblivious to the actual wishes of the average American, believing within their own smug minds, that the 52% per cent of Americans that were tricked by the promise of Hope and Change into voting for their unknown presidential candidate, had given them cart blanche to fulfill their wildest Progressive Utopian dreams for changing  the land of the free and the home of the brave into the land of Marx, Lenin, and Woodrow Wilson.

Congress has not accomplished this all on their own, though.  They were aided and abedded by Progressive activist Federal Judges, ruling by judicial fiat, whose own dreams of reshaping America were formed through their study of European case-law in preparation to attempt to circumvent the will of the American people for their own good, in order to purposely weaken American exceptionalism, in order to bring us in line with the global community.

Of course, all these changes that we have witnessed to our nation in the past 2 years have all sprung from the policies and world view of those charged with charting America’s course: President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) and his minions, err, administration.  From his birth, in Hawaii, presumably, he was groomed to be a citizen of the world, a fellow traveler, steeped in the failed ideology of Marx and Lenin, reinforced by the anticolonialism of a father he barely knew, his activist mother, his Indonesian step-father, and the Communist U.S.A. Party member/pedophile that lived next door when his mother abandoned him to be raised by his grandparents in Hawaii. As I explained in my 4 part series The Great Disconnect, Obama’s background  was carefully cultivated throughout his life and obfuscated to the point to where an unknown Far-Left hack politician was able to pass himself off as a Moderate messiah, offering hope and change to a country suffering through a horrible economy that his own political party actually created.

So now, less than three weeks away from the Midterm Elections, Obama and his political party are flailing about wildly, lashing out at anything that moves, trying to stave off a monstrous tidal wave of American Patriotic righteous indignation over an irresponsible administration and Congress who have been trying to force a failed ideology down the throats of average Americans who want their elected representatives to  act upon their wishes, not the utopian dreams of a minority of pinheads educated beyond their collective intelligence.

Just in the last few days, through Obama’s hip-hop pep rallies, his hypocritical, unfounded accusations of foreign influence against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the unrelenting attacks on Conservative Candidates, Fox News, and Talk Radio, and the ruling by the activist Federal Judge in San Diego eliminating Don’t ask, Don’t Tell, Progressives have seeded the storm clouds hanging above their heads. 

The Political Tsunami is here.  And they have no one to blame but themselves.

President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), in remarks at two separate Miami fundraisers Monday night, made no reference to the explosive charge he hurled days earlier at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that the business industry group was using foreign money to finance election year TV ads.  The charge has largely dominated the political debate since a liberal blog first raised the issue last Tuesday.

However, Vice President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee kept up the unsubstantiated charge, despite its crumbling credibility as an accusation.

The president’s retreat came as three more normally sycophantic all-things-Obama-outlets, the Associated Press, ABC News and FactCheck.org, all published reports dismissing the accusation. That follows a report by the New York Times, normally a propaganda outlet for the Democratic Party and Obama,  on Saturday that proclaimed that there was “little evidence” the Chamber was engaged in unusual or improper conduct.

According to a  senior Democratic Senate leadership aide, speaking on   Monday night, the line of attack was chopped off at the knees on Sunday morning when Bob Schieffer, host of CBS’ “Face the Nation,” asked Obama adviser David Axelrod,

Is that the best you can do?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

This anonymous aide told the Daily Caller:

Once Axelrod got the treatment by Bob Schieffer, it was all over but for the shouting, and time for them to try another line of attack.

Obama had weaseled around the charge on Sunday in his speech in Philadelphia, saying the use of foreign funds for TV campaign ads was possible but not going so far as he had Thursday to state it as fact. But an Obama adviser said Monday morning there was “no recalibration” in the president’s remarks, and as recently as Sunday morning, the White House said they would continue to go on the offensive.

But late Monday, the Associated Press published a report with the headline: “SPIN METER: Foreign Money in Politics? Not Proven.”

Not even with Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign?

Even the suspicious website FactCheck.org began its detailed report with this subheadline: “Democrats peddle an unproven claim.” According to them, the charge by Obama and Democrats against the Chamber has “little basis in fact.”

Per FactCheck.org:

It’s certainly true that millions are being spent without public disclosure, and that much of the money is coming from corporations taking advantage of a Supreme Court ruling easing restrictions on political spending.  But using foreign funds to finance political ads is still a legal violation. Accusing anybody of violating the law is a serious matter requiring serious evidence to back it up. So far Democrats have produced none.

ABC News ( hardly a Conservative source of news) also did its own fact check of Obama’s attack, and found that “an examination of the evidence provides little support for the claims.”

Scooter had claimed that the Chamber’s actions are a “threat to democracy,” and a fundraising e-mail from Organizing for America, an arm of the White House, called the Chamber itself a “threat to democracy.”

And while Obama stayed away from the foreign money charge Monday evening in Miami, Vice President Joe Biden raised the issue during a fundraiser in Pittsburgh.

Obama’s plucky comic-relief sidekick, Joe (Stand up, Chuck!) Biden, said of donations to groups like the Chamber:

You don’t know where it’s coming from, but you know where it’s coming from. It’s coming from some of the biggest interests.

The Democratic National Committee went on the air Monday, in their desperation, with a TV ad accusing the Chamber, along with Republican operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, of “stealing our democracy.”

According to this piece of propaganda:

It appears they’ve even taken secret foreign money to influence our elections. It’s incredible.

Rove and Gillespie both worked in senior White House adviser roles under President George W. Bush.  They also helped set up American Crossroads, an independent conservative group that is spending roughly $50 million in this election cycle.  Rove and Gillespie do not run the group but advise the group and help raise money for it.

MoveOn.org, the liberal advocacy group, (funded by billionaire socialist puppet master George Soros) has the hypocrisy to start gathering signatures in support of a petition asking Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a criminal investigation of the Chamber.

MoveOn.org said on its website:

This is potentially a very serious crime and it is up to Attorney General Eric Holder to use his power to stop the flow of money immediately and order a full Justice Department investigation.

Gillespie has written an op-ed for the Washington Post, to be published this morning, in which he goes after Obama and ThinkProgress, the blog that originally published the accusation.

According to Gillespie:

The smears are based on nothing more than a blog posting on a Web site affiliated with the Center for American Progress, a liberal nonprofit that does not disclose its donors.  The fate awaiting Democrats in November is a result of their dismal economic record and their arrogance.  One reason voters are deserting President Obama in droves is because of fears of unfettered, invasive government power, fears that will only be reinforced by the Democrats’ new political vigilantism.

Speaking of the evil puppet master, George Soros says that he’s sitting this election out:

I made an exception getting involved in 2004.  And since I didn’t succeed in 2004, I remained engaged in 2006 and 2008. But I’m basically not a party man. I’d just been forced into that situation by what I considered the excesses of the Bush administration.

Soros, 80, spoke those words in a brief interview Friday at a forum sponsored by the Bretton Woods Committee, which promotes understanding of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Soros, who was one of the main contributors to Obama’s Presidential Campaign and remains an advisor to the president, has been directing his money to groups that work on health care and the environment, rather than electoral politics. Asked if the prospect of Republican control of one or both houses of Congress concerned him, he said:

It does, because I think they are pushing the wrong policies, but I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.

 Barack Hussein Obama (peace be unto him) tried to recapture lightning in a bottle Sunday, imploring voters not to reward what he called Republican cynicism and incompetence by sitting out the Nov. 2 elections.

Project much, Scooter?

The president unloaded with both barrels on the GOP and their record in front of several thousand people on a beautiful day in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood.

Obama reluctantly acknowledged that Americans are frustrated, especially about the economy. Ignoring his own failed economic policy,  he said Republicans have decided “to ride that frustration and anger” without providing solutions. He added that congressional Republicans deliberately opposed his administration and the Democratic majority on almost every issue, in hopes that stalemate would depress Democratic turnout in the midterm elections.

Obama explained:

If I said there were fish in the sea, they said ‘no.  They figured ‘if Obama fails, then we win.

Scooter, you have, and they will…on November 2nd.

Reminding voters of their enthusiasm for his presidential campaign, the president said, “we need you as fired up as you were in 2008.”

Fat chance, Scooter.  That was before everybody knew you.

Obama’s 28-minute speech was the second of four planned large rallies scheduled in a desperate attempt to spur Democratic turnout to try to make a dent in  what many expect to be the biggest GOP victories in House, Senate and gubernatorial elections since 1894.

Sunday’s event, before a mostly black audience, was smaller and less boisterous than last week’s rally on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison.  According to Democratic organizers, more than 18,000 people turned out, including those in overflow lots who listened on speakers.

Obama repeated many of his familiar themes ad nauseam, such as the claim that Republicans drove the economy into a ditch before he took office, and then they refused to help Democrats extract it.

Somebody get the president some Kleenex:

The Republicans messed up so bad, left such a big mess.  The hole we’re climbing out of is so deep.

Do you want some cheese with that whine, Scooter?

Obama said about 8 million Americans had lost jobs before his economic policies could start taking effect.  He said:

It’s going to take us a while to get out of this hole.

Republicans want to increase the debt to continue a major tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, he said, yet they “lecture us on fiscal responsibility.”

Uhhh, because Americans never got a job from a poor person, Scooter.

Vice President Joe Biden, who was born in Scranton, Pa., introduced Obama with a three-minute speech. Democratic Senate nominee Joe Sestak also spoke briefly.

With only 22 days remaining, it’s doubtful that Scooter can stir up enough Democratic passion to avert a GOP takeover of the House, which would require a net pickup of 40 seats.

Democrats are trying to fire up apathetic voters who feel this year’s elections are not nearly as exciting and meaningful as his record-breaking election was.  They also are trying to placate liberals who feel Obama and congressional Democrats have let them down.

During the rally, someone threw a book at Obama.  It sailed past the president’s head without him even noticing.  The MSM is strangely silent about the event so far.  However, you can be sure that some Secret Service heads are going to roll.

John Duda, 46, a Veterans Administration physician who attended Sunday’s rally, said he thinks liberals are somewhat disenchanted that Obama had to make compromises on major issues such as energy and health care. Duda said he saw no reason for dropping a government-run health insurance option that would compete with private insurers.

Duda was not feeling the hope and change:

We’re probably better off. but there wasn’t this sea-change” that people had expected from an Obama presidency.

The crowd did liven up for a moment, however, and it wasn’t due to the performance of the hip-hop band playing there or the soaring rhetoric of the president.   24-year-old Juan James Rodriguez streaked in front of Obama, disrupting the president’s pontificating.

Rodriguez performed the mindless stunt in pursuit of a $1,000,000 reward offered by Alki David.   
 

David is a billionaire shipping and bottling magnate who is known to carry out stunts by paying others to perform them. As the The Sun reported on August 17: 

A WACKY billionaire has offered $1 million (£638,700) to the first person who streaks in front of US President Barack Obama. Loaded Alki David has promised to pay out the cash — providing the streaker writes the name of his website ‘Battlecam’ across their chest.

According to David:

When I see the video and it’s confirmed…it won’t be check [that he sends], it will be cash.

Per David, the requirements of the streaking stunt,  were that the streaker must have been within “eye-shot and ear shot of the president, they have to scream the name ‘battlecam.com’ six times, and they have to be nude.”

So, Rodriguez is a million dollars richer, if he ever gets out of jail…minus lawyer fees, of course.

I’m waiting for the announcement today that Obama created another job.

In the Midterm Election of 1894, under Democratic President Grover Cleveland, the Democrats went from having a majority in the House of Representatives, at 218 to 127, to becoming a minority of 105 members. They lost a total of 113 seats, 7 of them to Populists, the rest to the Republicans. That was almost a third of the total membership of the House, which then numbered 356.  In the Senate, where only a third of it is elected at a time, the Democrats’ numbers dropped from a controlling 44 to 39.

Perhaps it could be blamed on the depression that had hit in 1893. There is a problem with that, however.  In 1890, the Democrats had unseated a slim Republican majority even more decisively. The Fifty-first Congress, elected in 1888, had 166 Republicans in the House. (Sound familiar?)  The 1890 election cut the number of Republicans in half, to 88, leaving the Democrats with an outrageous 147-vote majority.

You might think that sort of enormous swing in the balance of power was unusual, but it wasn’t. Democrats got control of the House (by only five seats) in the elections of 1878, barely lost it in 1880, won it back in 1882, and kept it through the 1886 election, lost it again in 1888, regained it in that 1890 landslide, and were then bounced out of power, as noted, in 1894. In the Senate Republicans and Democrats were more closely balanced, exactly even in 1881-83, although Republican senators were in the majority by a handful of votes in all but two of the Congresses up to 1894. The Populists and other independents who won seats in defiance of the two-party monopoly completed the shifting congressional picture.

Dick Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton, is the author of Outrage, Fleeced and Catastrophe.  In his latest column at thehill.com, he analyzes the political tsunami that is forming and makes a prediction:

Republicans realize that our entire way of life and national idea is at stake in the 2010 elections. The radicalism of the Obama agenda and the mindless complicity of House and Senate Democrats who didn’t even read the bills they were passing have left a sense that America as we know it is on the line.

The regimented ranks of labor-union members enlisted by their leaders to turn out for Democratic candidates cannot compete with the fired-up intensity of the Republican grass roots. Democrats have gotten lazy and lethargic. The prolongation of the war in Afghanistan and the residual U.S. military presence in Iraq have sapped the left of its vitriol and undermined its faith in Obama. The new-left groups can’t gin up the enthusiasm they could in 2006 and 2008. It’s easier to attack than to defend.

When polls show Republicans even with their Democratic opponents, the GOP will win. Undecided voters generally go against the incumbents, and the vast difference in voter enthusiasm will tilt these races to the Republican challengers.

Prediction: The Republicans will win the Senate, capturing seats in Indiana, Arkansas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Washington state, Illinois and Nevada. And they could prevail in New York, Connecticut, Delaware and California to boot. 

So, how are the Democrats trying to fight back against this political tide?  By showing the Heartland how badly they underestimate them.  Check out this ad, posted on backstage.com for an upcoming Townhall event hosted by the MTV Networks featuring President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm):

PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, DC MTV, BET, and CMT (prods.) are casting the audience for a town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in Washington, DC. Seeking—Audience Members: males and females, 18+. To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put “Town Hall” in the subject line. To ensure that the audience represents diverse interests and political views, include your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are (interested in).

This is no surprise.  Everybody’s known that all his political rallies had hand-picked audiences.  This advertisement goes beyond the pale, however, and demonstrates just how phony Obama and his political party really are.

Obama’s unofficial Public Relations office, the Associated Press, has released the following:

President Barack Obama is holding a big rally in Philadelphia on Sunday in hopes of reigniting the type of Democratic enthusiasm that carried him to victory two years ago.

Vice President Joe Biden will join Obama at the rally where the hip-hop band, the Roots, will warm up the crowd.

It’s the second of four large rallies designed to recapture some of the big-stage excitement that Obama created in 2008 with stirring speeches to thousands of young and first-time voters. The president spoke to more than 17,000 people last week in Madison, Wis., where many more thousands watched on screens in an overflow area.

Democrats are desperate to close the “enthusiasm gap” that may lead to huge Republican victories in the Nov. 2 elections.

So, there you have it.  Our Kanye West President has been trying to impose his will on our Taylor Swift nation.  And in doing so, this elitist president and his elitist party have set the stage for a duplication of  the election of 1894.

I can’t wait.

Desperate Democrats are trying to hold down Republican gains in this November’s elections by questioning their loyalty to the nation’s veterans. 

Though taxes, spending and the economic slump have been the focus during this election year, several Republicans have piggy-backed on the small-government themes made popular by the Tea Party movement by suggesting veterans be allowed to seek a portion of their medical care through the private system. In some cases, they’ve hinted at it; in others, they’ve outright proposed it. 

Democrats are refusing to campaign on their disastrous destruction of the American Health Care system, which will eventually provide millions in government subsidies.  However, they’ve been more eager to label any Republican as heartless and irresponsible for proposing plans to “privatize” the veterans health system, if not the Department of Veterans Affairs altogether. 

The issue is front-and-center in the 17th Congressional District race in Texas, where Rep. Chet Edwards, a Democrat, is battling Republican challenger Bill Flores. 

Edwards is hammering Flores over a comment he made during a debate in January in which he rightfully said veterans would be “much better off” if they could see doctors in the private system and then have the government pay for it. 

Flores said:

Typically the care in the private sector is better than the government sector.  So they need to go into the private system. 

Flores is not backing off from his proposal. His website explains that under his plan, veterans would have a choice. The campaign said the private option could be useful for veterans who don’t live near a VA facility. 

But in August Edwards convened a press conference with local Texas veterans where he called Flores’ idea a “radical and dangerous plan that would destroy the VA health care system as we know it.” 

Edwards has issued a series of ads about the issue, including one in which Gen. Paul Funk, the former Fort Hood commander, says Flores’ plan to “privatize” veterans’ care “would hurt our nation’s veterans badly.” 

Edwards also had another ad featuring the Disabled American Veterans, an advocacy group that ludicrously claims the private sector would not want to treat ill and disabled veterans, and that lawmakers should concentrate instead on improving the VA medical system. 

In this political war, Flores has pulled out a big gun, Arizona Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, to join the fight. McCain, in an ad, called Flores a “patriotic American who’s proven he’s devoted to taking care of our veterans.” He said Flores’ proposal mirrored his. 

In Delaware, Democratic Senate nominee and former(?) bearded Marxist Chris Coons has seized on a paraphrased section of a New York Times story from last month in which Republican Christine O’Donnell said she would make health care vouchers for veterans a priority if elected. 

According to Coons, that’s a “terrible idea”:

Her voucher scheme would seriously undercut the health care provided to our veterans.

O’Donnell’s campaign held an event Friday in which she laid out her plan for veterans health benefits.

The Veterans Affairs Department budget in 2010 was $114 billion, with about $58 billion going to mandatory benefits and about $47 billion going to medical programs. Obama touted legislation in October 2009 announcing that the VA budget had increased by its highest amount in 30 years. The 2011 budget request is for $125 billion.

But, hey, we all know how efficient Government-run programs are, don’t we?  Well, maybe not:

There is a long history of  backlogs in the treatment of veterans at the VA hospitals as well as sub-standard conditions at several vets hospitals. Most recently, the VA sent letters to 1,800 veterans warning them of possible exposure to HIV during dental work at a St. Louis-area hospital.

Despite calls for reforms on several fronts, in the face of criticism from their Democratic opponents, some GOP candidates have backed down from their initial ideas for changing the system. 

Nevada Senate GOP nominee Sharron Angle suggested in a May radio interview that Veterans Affairs edge toward a private program. In the interview, she explained how her father was paying hundreds every month on prescription drugs that he couldn’t get through the VA. Asked if the government should cover those things, she said:

No, not if you’re working toward a privatized system. 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has since made that a centerpiece in his campaign’s effort to cast Angle as the “extreme “candidate.   Self-realization does not seem to be one of Harry’s strong points.

He and his aides hammered Angle for months on the comment, and in an ad last month the Reid campaign accused Angle of wanting to “end the VA as we know it.” 

After steering away from the issue, Angle’s campaign directly responded to Reid’s ad, calling it “desperate and dishonest.” 

According to her campaign:

Never has Sharron Angle called for privatizing Veterans Affairs and never has Sharron called for the end of Veterans Affairs.

A similar situation happened in the Colorado Senate race between Tea Party favorite Ken Buck and incumbent Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. The liberal website ThinkProgress (think Soros)  last month released a video clip of Buck saying a private sector veterans hospital would “be better run” than a public one. In the same clip, he noted that the funding for that would “have to come from the public sector and not from the injured veteran’s pocket.” 

Bennet subsequently pulled together a group of Colorado veterans to defend the current system. 

But Buck spokesman Owen Loftus told FoxNews.com Thursday that Buck “does not want to privatize veterans’ health care.” 

Loftus would not comment on what specific changes to the system Buck might consider, but said the GOP nominee just wants to look at “everything” to see how it can be improved. 

Loftus said:

He does want to make it better for veterans. They should not have to wait in long lines.

The Democrats have a problem.  It concerns people in glass houses.  Remember?

March 10, 2009 – Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance.

But the proposal would be “dead on arrival” if it’s sent to Congress, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, said.

Murray used that blunt terminology when she told Shinseki that the idea would not be acceptable and would be rejected if formally proposed. Her remarks came during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs about the 2010 budget.

No official proposal to create such a program has been announced publicly, but veterans groups wrote a pre-emptive letter last week to President Obama voicing their opposition to the idea after hearing the plan was under consideration.

The groups also cited an increase in “third-party collections” estimated in the 2010 budget proposal — something they said could be achieved only if the Veterans Administration started billing for service-related injuries.

Asked about the proposal, Shinseki said it was under “consideration.”

“A final decision hasn’t been made yet,” he said.

The Democrats have a history of using our Best and Brightest as political tools.  The Clintons used them as banquet staff at White House Events, having Marines in dress blues carry trays of munchies.   For the “smartest people in the room” to be feigning concern for our veterans in the ninth hour before the biggest political massacre in American history is disingenuous and laughable.  The men and women that they are using as political tools sacrificed their health and well-being to keep us all safe and free.  They deserve the finest medical help that we can give them.  Public or private.

President Barack Hussein Obama used two campaign appearances on Thursday to attack the Republican party over the private money that has filtered into their coffers for the November election campaign, suggesting that some of it came from abroad, and urging what remains of the Democratic Party faithful to symbolically drown out the cash with their “millions of voices.”