Hume: "Democrats have a sort of a reputation in this country ... of being at times, even, anti-defense"

Fox has sort of an issue with being, you know, lying liars who lie (with kudos to Franken).

Bret Hume has a reputation for putting me to sleep.

Correction: BRIT....I fell asleep before I heard his entire name.

There are more Democrats in Congress who have served in the military than Republicans.

Democrats have no such reputation, but only the appearance of it, as people at Fox News Channel work hard and overtime trying to promote that appearance.

But there are truths behind appearances, just as there are words to be read and judged, beyond the judgment we would make of the book's cover... here's the truth:

The task of governing and of making the Laws, is a varied task, just as various as Public Policy and National Policy is (and that's very various indeed): because the Policies and operations of the Department of Justice are so different from the Policies and operations of the Department of the Treasury, and their Policies and operations are in turn much different from those of the Department of State, and of the Interior... and the regulation of the banks and the financial system is not only remote and different from immigration and customs and border security, but are also vastly different from other regulatory functions too, such as the EPA's Policies and operations, or the FCC's even...

And who thinks that such various Policies and operations of government as those (and many others) are, do not require an equally various management or direction, and therefore equally various managers and directors?

Who thinks the same person that is perfectly qualified and capable to head and direct the U.S. Treasury, is equally capable of doing the same at the Pentagon?

Who even thinks that the same person who enforces the regulation of our banks and financial institutions, could just as well enforce the regulations of the EPA or the FCC?

Not me... I don't think that... I know that governing and making Law is a various task, requiring a variety of talents and abilities and qualifications, and so therefore they require a variety of people as well to do those things...

OK, my point: not all people are equally adept at enforcing the Law and at being a good cop, or equally adept at the skills of being a Soldier, no more than do all auto mechanics know how to farm, or do all electricians know how to fall a tree without killing themselves or someone else or smashing the house to pieces...

Not only are our Lawmakers and administration Officials not all equally good or any good at all, at fixing a car or farming or wiring a house or even chopping down a tree, they are not and will never be, equally capable at all of the various functions and operations of government: or else it would not be necessary for us to divide the functions and operations of government into the many Departments and Agencies and Commissions that we necessarily divide it into...

And just as all of our Lawmakers and administration Officials are not equally adept at these various and many functions of government, so too Democrats are not equally adept or competent at these things...

Not everyone makes a good cop or a good Soldier, admit this.

And therefore not every Democrat can do the same, admit this.

Not every Democrat has a good Policy opinion, or even a sensible opinion, about Law enforcement and about National Security, admit this.

And right now we have some of the most backward and stupid Democrats rushing to the front of a parade that they think they are the Grand Marshall of, to give their ill considered and worthless opinions about IRAQ and Afghanistan and National Security and JUSTICE and Law enforcement... it's like listening to idiots who know nothing about farming, but they talk about it anyway, like as if their words were actual seeds, that needed only to be cast about by them, and sprinkled with the spittle that comes from their mouths as they say those words, and fertilized with their incessant bullchit... they should just shut their stupid mouths, some of these Democrats, when it comes to matters of National Security and Law enforcement, because they're doing more harm than good, especially now.

You don't have to admit to that, especially if you're one of those Democrats that I'm referring to (who are at present are trying to sink our ship, or trying to crash it on the rocks, despite their having no abilities like navigators or pilots in these matters)...

It's the truth anyway... it's not exactly the cover of the book, it's instead the many words inside... and those words are always much harder to judge than the cover itself (and sometimes much harder to write and say), I'm sure you will admit to that.

Geez BRIT, how original.

golly britt, could you find a less offensive way of saying " for the most part democrats, liberals and progressives tend to be pacifists" ?

that's only true if you think like the republicans and vote for every weapons system that defense contractors can dream up, needed or not, and support every military action that the president claims is warranted. in other words, if pro defense is just defined as blind acceptance, then the democrats are generally not that.

I would have had no problem with this statement had Hume prefaced it with "In the minds of most Republicans, like myself,"
"Democrats have a sort of a reputation in this country ... of being at times, even, anti-defense"

2006 and 2008 would not be those times would they Brit? Or if he would have substituted "in the South" for "in this country". I mean, according to the representation in the House, Senate and White House? What country is this that Hume lives in, not the one that votes in the 50 states known as the United States of America.

Hume states that Democrats are anti-defense with no evidence.

Hume, like his right wing talking head brethren, is all for defense, as long as someone else is doing the defending.

Here's the evidence.

Mr. Hume, its entirely possible that democrats arent happy with news like this....

http://mahnert-online.de/cia.hmtl