From the office of Congressman Andy Harris:
Statement from Congressman Harris on opposition to use military force in Syria:
“After much consideration, including attending a classified intelligence briefing, I do not believe using military force against Syria is in the national security interest of the United States. At this point, I won’t be supporting any authorization to use military force if it is brought to a vote in Congress. The use of chemical weapons is a very serious matter for the international community that should not be tolerated, but this Administration has failed to lay out a coherent strategy for why using American military force in this situation is in the best interest of the country.”
It’s too bad that Andy can’t fall into line along with Babs, Dutch, Ben and Barry. Come on fall into the lock step positions along with the rest of these dolts
Thank you Congressman Harris.
Well, I am extremely pleased to see that some of our representatives are still listening to their constituents and representing them in Congress… Most seem to forget who they work for, who put them where they are and why we put them where they are. We have not forgotten… With resounding nationwide opposition to any action in Syria, I am dumbfounded that any of them would support this POS president and his war mongering BS. We need to concentrate our efforts right here on American soil, we’re falling apart while this president continues to meddle in affairs that are not our concern and spend even more money on war. It is not our place to play judge, jury and executioner throughout the world. How in the hell can we use chemical weapons in Iraq and turn around and bomb Syria for doing the same thing and think that’s OK? How do we punish a leader by bombing the innocent citizens of his country? You know Missiles are not going to simply hit strategic targets and leave the men, women and children standing unscathed! This entire issue has been beat into the ground, when all the president needed to do was to shut up and listen to the people. He’s far too arrogant to do any such thing! He’s still out there pounding the pavement to get his way, like a spoiled child who won’t take no for an answer. Maybe that will be his political demise? He’s not working FOR the people.. and this issue has, (if Benghazi didn’t) made that painfully obvious. Good for you Andy Harris, you quite possibly just ensured your political future with this announcement.
We should send different flavors of Kool-Aid to Ben and Babs. Maybe they will change flavors and stop drinking the Obama brand.
If only 30% of the population supports some type of incursion in to Syria, how can the Dems say there is a ground swell of support for some type of attack? And stupid me thought that the powers that be in Syria were keeping the Muslim Brotherhood in check in that desert morass. But what do I know? Congressman-thank you for representing your constituents.
Wayne, the Lib/Dems can say anything they want. They are not hindered by the truth. If the President wants to do it then it is automatically the right thing and if you oppose him you are a bigoted racist.
It’s a good thing that Mr. Obama’s legacy will include that he was the first non-white President so that he has something to balance out all of the stupid and harmful things he and his party have done. I heard he was meeting with top union officials this past week to explain to them how un-American they are in opposing the Affordable Care Act (also opposed by a majority of Americans) which is screwing them over. Meanwhile Pelosi won’t take any questions on it, I suppose because she is overly busy getting her constituents waivers. She is the waiver queen – more waivers for her district than any other member of Congress. I see she also voted to give herself and her colleagues in the Congress a waiver.
No, Judy, it is because she – Pelosi – is busy still reading it now that it is signed. She might be done reading it by the mid-term elections. It was just recently that she got to the section that said it applies to Congress and she had to stop and get that nonsense reversed. It simply cannot apply to a Democratic member of Congress from California.
Great remarks from ‘Proud of You’ above.
Now, Rep Harris, if you could only convince Dutch, Babs and Ben to do the right thing for a change, maybe Maryland could look like there were a few decent people living here, instead of the laughing stock impression that is given to rest of the nation.
Just read the letter from Babs that appeared in The Dagger yesterday, to prove my point!
Ben (the mad bomber) Cardin and his idol Obama want to bomb Syria. If we bomb the gas factories , poison gas may be spread all around. If we bomb the military installations collateral damage will surely result. So who or what do these idiots want to bomb and why in the hell do we want to get involved in another middle east civil war?
I see the good citizens of Colorado have sent a message to 2 of their state elected officials – Giron and Morse, Democrats – by recalling both of them for ignoring their constituents. I wonder of that could work here in Maryland on both the state and the federal level.
Alex, That would be my fondest dream. Can you imagine a recall ballot that would be multiple pages of Dem/Libs who dictate what this state does and doesn’t do without regard to either the law or the Constitution? I was in California a few times when Democratic governor Gray Davis was under recall petition and people were lining up to sign it. Can you imagine a Democrat so unpopular in that liberal bastion California of all places that he gets recalled? And Schwarzenegger of all people replaces him? Schwarzenegger? The Jesse Ventura of the west? Gosh Davis must have been almost as terrible as that guy who is currently governor of the land of pleasant living.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighboring countries not tied together by the same governments, which their own rival ships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments, and intrigues would stimulate and embitter. Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.