If Votes Fall Short, Dems to Redeploy from Congress
Breaking from conventional wisdom, chief political satirist Scott Ott offers this prediction:
(2006-11-07) — As Americans went to the polls this morning, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, announced that if Democrats don’t achieve a “clear, immediate, overwhelming victory” in the House and the Senate, she will lead them in a “responsible redeployment” from Congress.
“We don’t want to get tied up here for years in a sectarian battle that we can’t win,” Rep. Pelosi said. “Either we get what we want now, or we cut our losses and return to our home states.”
The woman who would be Speaker of the House if Democrats win the majority today, rejected critics who said her remarks were “just another example of cut and run from the Democrats.”
“When you’re in a quagmire,” she said, “with a long history of bitter partisan tensions, it’s foolish to think that if you stay just a little longer you can fix it. The smart and brave thing to do is get out of there”
A White House spokesman said President George W. Bush today offered the same advice to Rep. Pelosi and her colleagues that he’s offered about their strategy all year: “Stay the course.”
November 7th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
I’m not seeing those Pelosi quotes in the articles you linked to???
November 7th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
APPARENTLY, REPRESENTATIVE PELOSI FORGETS WHO IS AT LEAST 50% AT FAULT FOR THE QUAGMIRE THE GOVT IS IN. I WONDER HOW MANY FILIBUSTERS THE DEMOCRATS HAVE INSTITUTED SINCE LOSING CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE. I ALSO WONDER HOW THEY THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET ANYTHING DONE IF THE WHEN CONTROL WHEN THE REPUBLICANS HAVE THE SAME ABILITY TO START FILIBUSTERS.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:39 pm
I’ve often wondered why the Democrats don’t apply their reasoning on the Iraq war to other issues as well.
Poverty? Who are we to decide if someone is poor or not? Maybe what we think of as “poor” isn’t the same as what poor people think of as “poor.” We really shouldn’t be pushing our own ideas of economics on other people just because their different. They should be left alone to work things out on their own, in their own way, without our interference.
Global Warming? It’s just too big of a job! It’s unwinable! It will take decades, perhaps centuries to defeat global warming. We’ve already been fighting it for years with little or no progress to show. We need to abandon the fight against global warming right now!
The AIDS epidemic? We’re talking about BILLIONS of people, most of them living in foreign countries. What gives us the right to just march in there and help them? How much will it cost? More importantly, when will the cure be found? If President Bush can’t give a precise day and time when the fight against AIDS will end, then we should just give up now.
Actually, using the Democrats Iraq logic, we should just give up on anything that’s the least bit difficult, no matter how important or worth doing it is.