“It is the eternal struggle between two principles...

“It is the eternal struggle between two principles,
right and wrong, throughout the world.”

Read the above quote and you will think it is about the struggle of the non-Islam world with the Islam world. Wrong, it may fit, but President Abraham Lincoln made the statement at a debate at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858.

The politicians in the ilk of Rep. Murtha, AKA Cut and Run Democrats, do not recognize the fact that the civilized world is in an eternal conflict with the radical wing of the Islamist.

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich at Newt.org has a piece on this eternal conflict.

He states...

America’s lack of preparation, however, should not discourage us or even surprise us. Americans have had to rethink and reorganize for every major national security challenge in our history. We must recognize that we have three objectives to achieve.

First, we have two immediate opponents, the Irreconcilable Wing of Islam and the rogue dictatorships that empower the radical Islamists.

To read the complete piece, go here...

Representative Tom Delay's Closing Remarks

The Democratic National Party can't win at the polls. Their message doesn't sell. They function by being obstructionist. As yesterday's vote in the US Senate indicates, Democrats and 2 Republicans scuttled the cloture vote on the Death Tax. The public overwhelmingly wanted to end the unfair death tax. The Democrats prevented an up or down vote on it.

Yesterday, Rep Tom Delay gaving his final remarks as a congressman. He reminds us why we have partisanship. He is a great Congressman and I wish him well. His speech is below:

The point is, we disagree. On first principles, Mr. Speaker, we disagree. And so we debate, often loudly, and often in vain, to convince our opponents and the American people of our point of view.

We debate here on the House floor, we debate in committees, we debate on television and on radio and on the Internet and in the newspapers and then every two years, we have a huge debate. And then in November, we see who won. That is not rancor, that is democracy.

You show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a tyranny. For all its faults, it is partisanship, based on core principles, that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream, and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

Indeed, whatever role partisanship may have played in my own retirement today or in the unfriendliness heaped upon other leaders in other times, Republican or Democrat, however unjust, all we can say is that partisanship is the worst means of settling fundamental political differences -- except for all the others.

Now, politics demands compromise. And Mr. Speaker, and even the most partisan among us have to understand that, but we must never forget that compromise and bipartisanship are means, not ends, and are properly employed only in the service of higher principles.

DELAY: It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle .

For the true statesman, Mr. Speaker, we are not defined by what they compromise, but by what they don't.