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Look, guys...granted, I'm a Peace and Freedom member from California and much more compfortable with the Idea of jumping into the street than voting and saying "Yea!!! We Won!! We're the good guys!!" and then go home and watch prime-time t.v. but HELL!! Don't you people screen potential candidates? Ah; why'd I ask that? After you read this; come back to earth and realize that you can't trust any of the power elite and power belongs in the hands of the people and start writing letters, phone calls ect again; because the fight for the future hasn't really even started yet...and here's your new democrat from Kansas...
Memo to Nancy Boyda: You Were Elected As a Democrat
by Bob Geiger | Jan 6 2007 - 2:07pm | permalink
It's fortunate that, in the tidal wave of change and good news we got with the start of the new, Democratic-controlled Congress on Thursday, it was largely missed that one new Democratic Congresswoman went on television and looked like an idiot, who doesn’t understand why she was elected and, from the looks of that interview, might as well have an (R) next to her name.
Appearing with Charlie Gibson on ABC News Thursday, newly-elected Congresswoman Nancy Boyda, who defeated five-term Republican Jim Ryun 51% to 47% in Kansas's 2nd Congressional District in November, said she would vote for funding for any troop surge George W. Bush initiates, saying of Bush "He is the Commander-in-Chief…"
Here's the full exchange:
Gibson: Would you vote in favor of money to support another 20 to 40 thousand troops in Iraq?
Boyda: I think we're going to vote to support what the commander in chief and head of military asks to do. At least, I am certainly going to vote to support it.
Gibson: If he wants the surge, he'll get it.
Boyda: Yes.
Gibson: If he wants the surge, he'll get it.
Boyda: He is the commander in chief, Charlie. We don't get that choice. Congress doesn't make that decision.
Gibson: But the polls would indicate, and indeed, so many voters when they came out of the ballot box, said, "We're voting because we want something done about the war and we want the troops home."
Boyda: They should have thought about that before they voted for President Bush not once, but twice.
To quote my friend, John Amato at Crooks and Liars, "Is she kidding me? Earth to Bodya, we just had another election and the American people realized they made a mistake and voted YOU in to make a change. You're supposed to be part of the solution now, not another Rubber Stamper."
While technically accurate in some ways -- it is indeed up to Bush to be "the decider" on sending more troops -- Boyda answered that question in a way that indicates she was in a coma for the election season and has no clue about why she was elected -- and the very fact she was even elected in such a conservative area was because of the across-the-board opposition to this war from the American people.
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