An interesting statement was made today on the Senate floor shortly after Mitch McConnell and enough Republicans who believe the Constitution actually means what it says successfully blocked the District of Columbia from obtaining voting rights in Congress.  The debate shifted to the Defense Appropriations bill, an overdue piece of legislation that the Democrats are finally gettting to.

After liberal Republican Senator Smith from Oregon tried to attach a hate crimes bill to the Defense Authorization bill by unanimous consent, Arizona maverick John McCain objected, keeping the defense bill from getting watered down.  Shortly after, down to the well of the Senate came Massachusetts' Ted Kennedy, who offered the following:

I have every intention, with Senator Smith, at some time of offering the hate crimes legislation. I know the question comes up why are we offering hate crime legislation on a defense authorization bill? Well, the answer is very simple. the defense authorization bill is dealing with the challenges of terrorism and the hate crimes issue, to try and get a handle on the problems of hate crimes, we're talking about domestic terrorism, domestic terrorism.

Not to mention the fact that hate crimes legislation already exists at the federal level, and exists in 45 states and the District of Columbia, it's another glaring example about why the Democrats have no idea about the nature of the enemy we face in the global war on terror. What one's religious view holds about homosexuality, or whatever race relations exist in this country, it clearly cannot be compared to the threat of radical Islamic jihadism, which demands that one either convert to their particular brand of Islam or be killed.

The bill on the floor in the Senate is to continue to fund the troops who are on the front lines of the war fighting, killing and capturing real terrorists, and Ted Kennedy wants to funnel away money from the military to play political games and make rhetorical gains with the Democratic base in this country.

Since Kennedy is intent on tying hate crimes to the military budget, does that mean he wants U.S. troops to surge in America to combat his perception of a rise in domestic terrorism?

If anyone seriously follows what Democratic elected officials say day in and day out, it is demostrably clear that the party is not capable of leading the country during wartime.