R-E-S-Pee-E-C-T

Just a little bit of respect for our troops, that's all any right-minded freedom-minded person expects of our government.

Apparently, that's too much to ask of the Democrats in Congress, this week.

According to the WSJ, Harry "All Is Lost" Reid and Carl Levin put their pointy little heads together to block a very simple "thank you" to the troops in Iraq:

Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin teamed up to block a vote on a bipartisan resolution "recognizing the strategic success of the troop surge in Iraq" and thanking our men and women in uniform for their efforts.

Please note from above: Carl Levin is the Armed Services Chairman. So, for him -- and the rest of the Democrats, regardless of the responsibility of their positions -- partisanship comes ahead of respecting our men and women in uniform.

Why am I not surprised?

"Papa, what's chutzpah?"

I heard the word "chutzpah" for the first time when I was in grade school, and asked what it meant. At the time, I didn't quite understand the "orphan plea" explanation, so it was later explained:

A bully beat up another person so badly that he had to go to the hospital. While the person was being treated for his injuries, the doctors discovered the poor battered soul had cancer in its early stages. The person was treated and cured.

The bully took credit for saving the person's life by forcing him into the hospital in the first place. That's chutzpah.

Hmmm. Sounds familar. Harry Reid takes credit for Rush Limbaugh's successful fund-raiser....