Hoyer’s Campaign to Undermine Dems & Topple Pelosi
David Sirota has posted an utterly laughable piece on his online magazine. Here’s a sampling of his laughable article:
You don’t need to look very far to see how Hoyer is doing everything he can to self-servingly undermine his party as a way to hurt Pelosi. In today’s Washington Post, for instance, the paper reported that according to congressional sources, Hoyer “told colleagues that Pelosi’s recent endorsement of a speedy withdrawal [from Iraq] combined with her claim that more than half of House Democrats support her position, could backfire on the party.” You might recall that last week it was Hoyer who, after Pelosi came out in support of Jack Murtha’s plan for an exit strategy, was quoted in the Post saying withdrawal “could lead to disaster”, a statement only a Washington politician wholly out of touch with ordinary Americans could make, considering a disaster has long been unfolding in Iraq, and considering most Americans now support an exit strategy.
Let’s take this apart a bit at a time.
In today’s Washington Post, for instance, the paper reported that according to congressional sources, Hoyer “told colleagues that Pelosi’s recent endorsement of a speedy withdrawal [from Iraq] combined with her claim that more than half of House Democrats support her position, could backfire on the party.”
Mr. Sirota doesn’t bother considering the fact that Hoyer is right on this issue. He doesn’t bother thinking that a “speedy withdrawal” would be utter disaster for the Democratic Party and that it’s the pacifist wing of the party that’s wrong. Mr. Sirota would be better off if he followed the information where it led him, then drawing a conclusion.
Hoyer made a statement that “only a Washington politician wholly out of touch with ordinary Americans could make, considering a disaster has long been unfolding in Iraq, and considering most Americans now support an exit strategy.”
This is just as laughable. Ordinary people are seeing that there’s progress being made but that it takes time to build a country from the ground up. It isn’t a disaster, as Mr. Sirota claims. It’s just that fatalities and casualties are the high price that always must be paid for freedom. Freedom has never been free and it never will be.
Cross-posted at BoxerWatch