This is probably the other shoe.

Shelby resident Betsy Wells asked about the Iraq War. She mentioned her nephew, who joined the Army after 9/11, and is on his third tour of duty in Iraq. She explained that this young man had changed his life goal because of the threat to the country. She asked, with your constant support of George Bush’s requests for the War, why aren’t you in uniform fighting in Iraq?

McHenry’s response: My life’s plan in my 20s did not include that. I serve my country in other ways. I wouldn’t want to say that my sacrifice is near what the troops have sacrificed.

Betsy: Are any of your brothers or sisters in Iraq? McHenry: No.

Betsy: Do you have family or cousins in Iraq? McHenry: Yes, (but he did not elaborate).

Betsy: “Would you support a withdrawal date for removing troops from Iraq? McHenry: Emphatic No. “That would mean we lose.” He said, it’s better to fight them over there than here.

Betsy: “Why are more Congressman’s children not serving?” McHenry: “I don’t have any children, yet.” He said he hopes to have children some day “after I meet the right woman.”

McHenry served in Iraq. That is all people will remember. Thank you Washington Post!

Who cares about a correction on page A20?

No that there’s anything wrong with that.

Patrick McHenry (R-NC) loves the Iraq War and has not enlisted (despite his young age), and is therefore by definition a Chickenhawk.

Patrick Henry
March 23, 1775

“Would you like some Freedom Friesâ„¢ w/ your order?”

Patrick McHenry (R-McDonald’s)
Jan 21, 2009

Adding to the GOP’s “gay woes” are reported links between North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry and the alleged shooting murder-suicide of three men in Orlando, including Ralph Gonzalez, the former director of the Georgia Republican Party, campaign manager for Florida GOP Rep. Tom Feeney (who was instrumental in successive election fraud cases in Florida, including 2000), and close friend of former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed. Orlando police have suggested that one of the dead men, Jason Robert Drake, was the shooter. The other dead man, David Abrami, was also a GOP operative, as well as Gonzalez’s housemate.

Drake, an ex-Marine, reportedly worked for McHenry on a number of Republican campaigns in North Carolina.

With connections to a number of Republican members of Congress, it has been suggested that Orlando police have been a bit too quick to point to a gay triangle element in the shooting deaths.

There are reported links between McHenry and Drake and McHenry and Gonzalez. It has also been reported that there are links between McHenry, Drake, and two gay pornography producers, Harlow Cuadra, Bryan Kocis, and a gay escort service operating out of Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia. That service has also been connected to top GOP leaders in Washington. Cuadro has been charged with murdering Kocis in Pennsylvania.

It is also noteworthy that former two-term Virginia Republican Rep. Ed Schrock, a married retired Navy Captain, decided not to run for re-election in 2004 after his voice mail messages were found at a Virginia Beach gay escort service called MegaMates/MegaPhone.

http://www.americablog.com/2007/09/another-gop-gay-scandal-brews-in-murder.html

“Give me liberty, or give me death.”

Patrick Henry
March 23, 1775