Tear down this Walz
Minnesota First District Rep. Tim Walz is one of the Democrats swept into office with the tide in the last election. He is also one of the House Democrats blocking legislation that would preserve the essential intelligence collection authority that was passed overwhelmingly by the Senate. Andrew McCarthy and the Defense of Democracies have led the charge in exposing the hokum advanced by the Democrats to support their utter irresponsibility, most recently in McCarthy's NRO column "Top Democrats spout nonsense on intelligence reform."
House Democrats opted to go on vacation rather than permit a vote on the compromise bill passed by the Senate. Defense of Democracies is now running an advertisement urging legislators to pass the Senate bill. Rep. Walz has attempted to join the issue with McCarthy and the Defense of Democracies advertisement in this press release.
McCarthy is of course the former federal prosecutor who led the prosecution against the jihad organization of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman (the “blind sheik”), in which a dozen Islamic militants were convicted of conducting a war of urban terrorism against the United States that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to bomb New York City landmarks. Unfortunately for Rep. Walz, McCarthy knows what he is talking about. As McCarthy rightly observes, Walz's press release is vacuous:
Walz argues that because he was in the Coast Guard, he knows more than you do and, trust him, everything is just fine — even though, notwithstanding that everything is just fine, he (unsuccessfully) urged his colleagues not to go on vacation so they could enact curative legislation to cure the problem that he assures you is not really a problem.McCarthy responds in detail to Walz's press release here, and the bologna meets the grinder. One of the local papers in Walz's district takes note of the controversy here.
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