Harry Reid pronounces the war for the cities is lost

18th May 2007

Harry Reid pronounces the war for the cities is lost

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Today Senate Majority leader Harry Reid stood on the steps of the Capitol Building with Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha and while standing together Senator Reid read this statement:

Our failed policies in these cities have forced me to announce that we have lost the battle. The citizens in these cities do not want our help, and the administration has failed to have a cohesive strategy for victory. America can no longer provide financial support nor risk the lives of it’s young men and women in these horrific conditions. We have lost and we are pulling out. Murder is between 3-6 times the national average there, while violent assaults and rapes are 2-3 times the average of that nation. The administration is not offering srategies for victory and so we are declaring our losses and cutting out and running, regardless of what will happen there after we leave.

Sounds like things in Iraq are really bad doesn’t it? Well he didn’t make that statement about Iraq, in fact he didn’t make it at all but considering the statements he made it’s probably not far off. The cities in that hypothetical statement?

Washington D.C.
Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore MD.

(statistics from those links are from 2003)

One thing is 100% true in all those cities from that hypothetical statement. The administrations in those cities seems to have no plan to improve or even safeguard it’s citizens. Crime is bad and getting worse in all those cities. In fact things in Baltimore are so bad that this was recently proposed there:

BALTIMORE – A city council leader, alarmed by Baltimore’s rising homicide rate, wants to give the mayor the power to put troubled neighborhoods under virtual lockdown.

Sounds like the “surge plan” from Iraq doesn’t it? Think it was copied from Bush’s strategy in Iraq? Wrong.

Curran said he modeled his plan after an approach advocated by Philadelphia mayoral candidate Michael Nutter, who won the Democratic nomination Tuesday. Nutter has called for declarations of a “state of emergency” in high-crime neighborhoods, where police would conduct aggressive stop-and-frisk searches and impose curfews.

Now realize this, Nutter just won the Democratic Primary for Mayor in Philadelphia, which means that he will be mayor since no one has even heard of the Republican candidate. Philly is a democratic wasteland and no republican has a chance to win for Mayor. So if Nutter lives true to his word we should be seeing this plan in effect here soon. When his policies fail in Philadelphia and in Baltimore..will the democrats then decide to bail out and run from those cities also?

*edit* For something humourous about the democrats and surrendering look here.

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1 On May 20th, 2007, Dean Berry said:

If conservatives had lived 225 years ago, they would have been called Tories and would have been calling our American Forefathers, terrorists — or whatever the equivalent expression was back then. Fact. http://deanberryministries.net

Try to be a man and prove you’re a real American by leaving this post intact.

2 On May 20th, 2007, Logan said:

I’ll leave the post intact, I’ve never deleted a non-spam post. Now why don’t you try and be “christian” and not hurl useless insults about. Oh and 225 years ago the “conservatives” were called the founding fathers. Let’s see, freedom of religion that’s conservative, bearing arm’s yep conservative also, small government and a strong defense both conservative ideals. Saw your site, nice graphics but the topics of writing leave much to be desired. You’ve got to do more research on some things but I’d doubt you’d listen to any points of view outside your incredibly narrow scope of mind.