President Obama proposes moving 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. You’re a Republican congressman. One of your party’s hallmarks is strong national defense. Yet you’re completely politically invested in stalling this president’s agenda. What do you do?

Rep. Paul Broun, R-Athens, rejects Obama's middle way. He says come heavy or don’t come at all.

“I believe we must give our troops everything they need to win in Afghanistan so that we can bring them home in victory,” Broun said in a statment released just prior to Obama's speech tonight. “If there isn’t a commitment to that, we should bring them home right now.

“I support the deployment of additional forces to Afghanistan, and I hope that tonight’s speech will display a clear commitment to fully resource our mission in that region. There must be no half-measures on this issue,” he said.

The Cliff's Notes version of other reactions from other Georgia Republicans is: Dithering, more troops, listen to generals, taxes are bad, ditch the timeline. I'll post additional complete statements in the unlikely event anyone is interested.

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