have jobs with prominent law and lobbying firms in Nevada, and serve as paid directors on the boards of any number of corporations and organizations. None of them, naturally, have the qualifications, experience, and accomplishments normally required for those posts.

Reid began as a “moderate conservative” Democrat, but the word on him was always that he was the Vegas Mob’s boy in Washington. He’s won a couple of real squeaker reelections, and only manages to stay in office by the steady influx of Californians fleeing their own socialist paradise and Mexican immigrants into Nevada.

Mike Mansfield was indeed Senate Majority Leader in 1975, the time of the betrayal of Southeast Asia. However, it is hard to blame him for it. The Democrats had won huge majorities in both Houses in the post-Watergate 1974 elections, and their antiwar wing was ascendant (and frankly, the country had soured on the war thanks to the nonstop antiwar propaganda emanating from the network news, in case you thought media treason was a new phenomenon). In particular, why should Mansfield be considered more central to the fund cut-off than House Speaker Tip O’Neill?

In speaking of the worst Majority Leaders, certainly Tom Daschle deserves at least an honorable mention, but Reid is a very strong candidate for worst ever, and has at least another year and 3/4 in which to cement his place in ignominy.

Remember those Land deals?? Any link to the High Speed Rail Project that got EARMARKED in the Porkulus Bill?? Any of that land figure into that HSR path now??

BTW: Got a big laugh from the typo in your post “Ethnics” charges – lol

And you can add the blood of about 3 million Cambodians to that.

Just another reason to never forget that the Democrats are indeed the “Party of Death”.

about the the funds? The US was giving funds to Vietnam?

I’m trying to look it up online. I’m not sure if I have the right list.

And the South was not in control of the country.

You are overlooking the North Vietnamese Army units that were allowed to stay in the south as part of the Paris Agreement. The presence of these units was objected to by the South Vietnamese who were promised by our government that they would be assisted if the Communists attempted to take over what remained of the south.

While Watergate rendered any possibility of retaliation and a resumption of American involvement an impossibility, one only has to look at the current situation in Iraq to see how ineffective it would be to pull out from the country while threatening to return if things get out of hand in Fallujah, Najaf or Baghdad. John Murtha’s “Okinawa” strategy comes to mind.

By signing the agreement, the North Vietnamese had no intention of discontinuing its long term goal.

Our departure from Vietnam was a disgraceful abandonment of an ally we pledged to support. It sickens me further to know that Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a time when the award still meant something.

The actions of the Democrats in the US Congress were despicable, to be sure. But they were a culmination of years of bumbling and stumbling by so-called leaders of both parties-the final nail in the coffin of the South Vietnamese.

I have said many times in this forum that the likeness of President George W. Bush would someday appear on Iraqi postage stamps. It is because he waged a successful war to liberate 50 million people in two countries without regard to how his decisions would affect him politically. This quality was sorely lacking in the leaders we had during the Vietnam era. It is evident to me that Mr. Bush is a student of history. He will be properly vindicated as will our involvement in establishing Democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Vietnam will always be a nightmare for me.

I clicked the “Reply To” don’t know what happened…. Ugh! Hate when these misfires occur.

we are seeing that Americans in many of these em districts are being heard on energy taxes and unions…

see here

http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law–Politics-Examiner~y2009m3d24-The-Dawn-of-Blue-Dawg-Democrat-Power