Washington's Birthday

For conservatives, it may seem like the worst of times. Dems control the house and senate but no politician – including our president – wants to control the border. Border agents are locked up on the testimony of the drug smuggling illegal alien they were arresting - and even the drug smuggling illegal alien’s testimony is bought and paid for with taxpayer money by scumbag, Nifong like prosecutors more interested in their conviction rate than justice or border control.

American forces are on a roll in Iraq but politicians want to roll back the forces. Just as American and Iraqi forces gain the upper hand in Baghdad, forcing the Sardr army into hiding and its leaders into Iran, Jack the ass Murtha wants “slow bleed” AMERICAN forces. You’d think the Jackass and like minded DemoRATS would be more interested in “slow bleeding” al Qaida and Iraqi insurgents than AMERICAN forces. You’d think wrong. There is political hay to be made – U.S. forces be damned.

These days, bad as they are, would seem like a sunshiny walk in the park for the “indispensable American”. George Washington’s effort to keep the Continental Army together throughout the Revolutionary War, 3 July, 1775 through the winter of 1783, was perhaps the greatest military and political feat in American history. Conditions at Valley Forge the winter of 1777 would have today’s Defeatocrats like Jack the ass Murtha warming their trousers with their own urine.

The man who refused to be king held the army together through force of will and personality when there were few men, little supply and no pay. As if that were not enough, craven Murtha-like politicians were constantly plotting against Washington, seeking his removal as Commander of the Continental Army and undermining his plans. The army itself seemed always on the verge of annihilation but still managed the well-timed and decisive victory to keep it going.

During his presidency, from 1789-96, Washington directed the opening of the Northwest Territory. He dealt with American pacifists in Washington, interloping foreign powers in territories who constantly stirred the tribes to the warpath and setbacks and atrocities in the field that would make anything happening today seem minor and down-right civilized by comparison. Then, with the territory open and things looking up for America, he walked away from power to finish his days at Mt. Vernon.

So if you think things are tough today, look back on the life and times of the indispensable American, the man who refused to be king, the man who gracefully walked away from power when he could have had all he wanted. Today is not “President’s Day.” It is George Washington’s birthday. We should place the others, great and small, after this legendary figure.