Lamborn Loses It

It looks like Doug Lamborn (CO 05) has already managed to assure his legacy as a one-term wonder, a mere eight months after being sworn in.

I first became aware of the great patriot feckless jackal in March, when the great troop supporter (who has not donned a uniform since cub scouts) voted against:

• $1.7 Billion for military health care.
• $450 Million for PTSD care.
• $62 Million for amputee care at Walter Reed.
• $20 Million to fix Walter Reed. And...
• $1.4 Billion for new armored vehicles. (The ones about which Rumsfeld said "you go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want." (h/t Square State)

His Colorado GOP colleagues ignore him, treating him as nothing more than a mere place-holder, and at times treat him with unmitigated open hostility.

In a desperate grasp at relevancy, he took a day-trip to Iraq where he proceeded to admonish a group of soldiers who are stuck in that quagmire for fifteen fucking months that they could win if they only wanted to - or in other words, 'if we lose this thing, it's all your fault, punks.'

If the fact that he is so far out of his element he needs his own periodic table wasn't already apparent, now he is threatening constituents:

FIRST MESSAGE: "Hello, this is Doug Lamborn calling for either Jonathan or Anna. Something very serious has happened. There was a letter to the editor that you both put in your names to the editor of the Woodmen Edition and there is something that is blatantly false in that letter.

"I would like to get together with you and show this to you and appeal to you as a brother and sister in Christ. You didn't give me that opportunity but I am happy to overlook that and deal with you on that level because I think that is the right thing to do and show you where you made a blatant, wrong statement.

"Now there are consequences to this kind of thing, but I would like to work with you in a way that is best for everyone here concerned. So please call me at your earliest convenience. It is now 2:40 (p.m.) on Saturday afternoon.

SECOND MESSAGE: "Hello, this is Doug Lamborn again, I'm finishing up my message from a moment ago. I got cut off. It is critical that you get back to me as soon as possible on this because I'll be going back to Washington here in a few days and I have to make sure that this is resolved one way or another. And like I said I'd rather resolve this on a Scriptural level but if you are unwilling to do that I will be forced to take other steps, which I would rather not have to do. So please call me. This is essential. Call me by tonight, Saturday night and we can get together sometime Sunday afternoon."

The Bartha's were upset that Lamborn voted against legislation to make dogfighting and cockfighting a federal felony offense.

I am the least religious person you will ever meet, but I still know a little bit about the scriptures - and Lamborn's political career has been 'slain by the jawbone of an ass.'

The cynic in me...

...says that Resident Evil™ and his minions making their surprise trip to Anbar today is a headfake.

Think about it...

The Brits are done, they turned over the Palace Complex in Basra and are out of combat operations. The Iraqi flag now flies over the palace, and the Shiites are firmly in control in the south.

Not only have the Brits withdrawn from the theater of operations, but British Generals have been blasting the Bush administration for being morons and turning Iraq into the biggest cock-up in the history of western meddling in the region - and they know from cock-ups...Suez anyone?

What is a swaggering, smirking goon to do when his mates bail?

There is only one appropriate course of action...Photo op!

Stop off in the war zone for a bit of Kabuki in al Anbar (where there is some progress, but it has nothing to do with the so-called Surge™ and everything to do with making deals with the devil) on your way to Australia - where by the way, your Man in Baghdad Petraeus has already popped in to soften 'em up for you - Talk to a couple of Marines in Anbar...ask them about morale...they report morale is high...that bit gets picked up by the media, but the media doesn't report the part about Marine deployments being SEVEN months - the Army deploys for over twice as long, 15 months, and there were no soldiers anywhere near the pathetic, failed dullard.

And the cocktail-weenie-wagging shills of the M$M fawn, and fail to live up to their Constitutionally protected role once again.