A GOP majority- a necessary evil.

As regular members of Joshua's Army know, I pretty much venture into domestic US politics only when it impacts on the War on Jihad. which I consider to be the primary issue of our time. And I'm hardly a partisan of either party.

Two weeks from today, America is holding its midterm elections. And while there are a number of sensible Democrats with solid records on the war against jihad (my own congressman is one of them) the majority of the Democratic party is, frankly far from having an understanding of this war or what it will take to win it.

This is particularly true of a number of Democrats slated for leadership and influential committee chairmanships should the Democrats win a majority in either house.

Let's take a look at that.

House majority leader Nancy Pelosi, who would be number three in line for the job of commander in chief after the President and Vice President is a perfectly good example. As a representative, she has voted consistently, like most Democrats, to slash intelligence budgets even after 9/11, and to slash military budgets, and voted against the Patriot Act. Pelosi also championed local San Francisco high schools and colleges in her district barring military recruiters from campus, in direct violation of US law as embodied in the Soloman Amendment. She also apparently is backing none other than John Murtha (D-PA) to replace Steyn Hoyer as Whip.

John Conyers (D-MI) would be slated to chair the House judiciary committee. Aside from having a number of questionable ties to Islamist origin like CAIR in his home state,which should give you an idea of his positions on surveillance of Islamic terrorists, Conyers has sponsored a bill to start an impeachment investigation against President Bush and would tie up the House with numerous partisan `investigations' and perhaps even an attempt to revive impeachment proceedings...all atthe expense of the war effort. And forget about appointing any reasonable judges to the Federal bench or the Supreme Court. Even worse would be his senate counterpart, Patrick Leahy (d-VT).

Charley Rangel(d-NY) would take over the House Ways and Means committee...can you spell tax increase? Not to mention attempting to de-fund the war, as he's hinted.

The House Intelligence Committee is even more problematical. Slated for the Chairmanship if there's a Democratic majority in the House is a federal judge who was impeached for accepting a bribe, Rep. Alcee Hastings.

Other Democrats slated for influential committee chairmanships include Neil Abercrombie (D-HI), John Dingell (D-MI) and George Miller (D-CA).

Another thing many of the congressmen I mentioned have in common, by the way, is their utter disdain for and consistent voting records against Israel, even when it comes to fairly inocuous resolutions of general support for its right to defend itself.

John Dingall famously remarked that he saw no reason for the US to take sides with Israel against Hezbollah, Wrangel, Abercrombie and Miller have a long history of anti Israeli votes and Conyers actually hosted the famous WhiteHouse `basement meeting' where the most vile anti-Semitic canards and outright lies were circulated. It's also no coincidence that Dingall and Conyers hail from Michigan, with substantial Muslim constituencies.

Aside from being morally despicable, these votes undercut a loyal ally and weaken us in the War aginst Jihad.

All of them voted against the Patriot Act, against the NSA wiretapping of terrorists and against virtually every bill authorizing expenditures for military weapons systems. Their idea of Natinal security is a throw back to the Clinton years and America's vacation from history, a vacation we can no longer afford.

You know,if you read this site that I'm hardly a water carrier for the Bush Administration or the GOP. But the issues are so clear cut, both in domestic and foreign policy that the idea of giving people like this the kind of control they would have with either a House or Senate majority is equivalent to letting the inmates take over the asylum.

And it might just get a number of us killed.

I would hope that average Americans would look at the balance sheet, evaluate what's there an dthe possible coat of changing hamstringing our leadership just now and come out in favor of the Republicans, even if it's just a bare majority. President Bush would be able to claim victory even if his party loses seats, so long as it retains a bare majority in the House and Senate.

And if Lieberman wins his senate seat in Connecticut as an independent, as it appears he will, the Democrats will have to think about the fact that they abandoned him because he remembered, and they forgot that, whatever else, politics is supposed to stop at the water's edge.

In any case, vote.