On today’s Argus Leader front-page is a Gannett Drive-By media anti-American attack on John Thune:
South Dakota Sen. John Thune will vote against the Iraq War spending bill today and in the process will vote against millions of dollars in aid for his state's drought-stricken farmers and ranchers.
The $122 billion spending bill, which President Bush has promised to veto, includes $3.7 billion in disaster aid for the nation's farmers and ranchers. Agricultural producers have been trying for two years to win congressional approval for the assistance.
And the report quotes two South Dakota agriculture special interest members who think surrendering to the Jihadists is OK, just as long as they get some pork:
The spending bill is the agriculture community's best hope for getting disaster relief anytime soon, said Mike Held, administrative director of the South Dakota Farm Bureau. Democrats tacked disaster assistance and other popular spending proposals onto the bill to win over wavering senators, a tactic Republicans also employed when they ran Congress.
"We've got producers in the western half of our state that have been going through a five- or six-year drought, so we're encouraging passage of this," Held said. "We're extremely dry again going into spring, and (the money) will make a difference for some people in being able to keep their operations together, to hang on to some of their foundation herds, that kind of thing."
Thune's vote today and the president's anticipated veto could hurt both of them politically with South Dakota voters, said Doug Sombke, president of the South Dakota Farmers Union. Held and Sombke said they are sympathetic to Thune's predicament."But at the same time, if we're going to be working on helping some other country, why not help our own as well?" Sombke asked. "The veto by the president, in my view, is another slap in the face, just like we received back in 2002, when he came to Rapid City and Mount Rushmore ... at the start of this disaster when he told us, 'You're tough people, pull yourself up by your boot straps and suck it up.' "
It is more than just hypocrisy for the Driver-By media to give John Thune crap for being Porker of the month for his efforts to lessen our reliance on foreign sources of energy by moving coal from Wyoming to power plants, and then give him crap for not supporting pork in a Democrat bill that forces the Commander in Chief to surrender to the Jihadists. Held, Sombke, and the Argus Leader should be ashamed of themselves. Being anti-American is not the South Dakota way. And whining about drought during a rainy day in South Dakota is pathetic. When things get tough, South Dakotans come together and rely on each other, not cowher and cry to the government.
And when they reported on Herseth’s vote in favor of surrender last week, they promoted Herseth’s lies and propaganda and did not even mention that her vote of surrender was bought with pork. And today they end their biased report with the same propaganda straight out of the Herseth camp:
But Herseth's spokesman, Russ Levsen, said Herseth took a common-sense, centrist approach in voting for the spending bill.
"Most South Dakotans recognize that it is past time for the Iraqi government to step up and be held accountable for the future of their country," Levsen said. "On serious issues of war and peace, South Dakotans aren't going to take their cues from a partisan political operative in Washington, D.C."
This Iraq bill is a poster child for partisan politics. There is nothing centrist about it. And it is not about accountability, it is about America’s surrender to the Jihadists. Lies, lies and more lies.
And if promoting the lies form the anti-America left isn’t enough, the Argus Leader runs an editorial dishing the idea of public education educating students, and instead promotes indoctrination. Excerpt:
But then that's the question: Is cutting P.E. - from two semesters to one, so students have more schedule flexibility - a good idea or not?
To answer that, though, we have to decide what we want our schools to be. Over the last century or so, our schools have evolved far beyond the original narrow view of readin', writin' and 'rithmetic institutions. We've gone deeply into athletics, music and the arts, life skills, citizenship and sex ed. We have determined that public schools have a role in these areas, because it benefits society in the long run.
And they end with this:
So what do we want our schools to be? Simply teach the basics? Or benefit society as a whole?
Secular humanist indoctrination does not benefit society as a whole. Emotional intelligence trains kids on how to "feel" in the same matter in which you train dogs. Education gives kids tools, so that they can think for themselves. Of course people who know how to think are not kind to the Argus Leader. We know citzenship does not mean pork is more important than American winning a battle against our enemies.
John Thune deserves credit for being a real man by standing up for America, and not go along with the game played with porksmanship.
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