Harry Reid Finally Fighting Smart???
Yes, you read that right. That’s what The Nation’s John Nichols thinks in his latest post for The Nation’s blog. When it comes to tin ears, Nichols’ ear ranks right there with Reid’s. Their timing is as good as their ear is.
The Senate Majority Leader’s recognition of the realities of Washington in the Bush era, as evidenced by his decision Monday to set up a scenario that could clarify the role played by Republican senators in maintaining the president’s exceptionally unpopular approach to the Iraq War, holds out the prospect that the politics of the debate over ending the occupation could change radically in the weeks to come.
Mr. Nichols is too full of himself (or full of bovine matter) if he thinks this PR stunt will endear Senate Democrats to the American people. If Mr. Nichols and the other doves at The Nation weren’t so certain that their wildest dreams had come true, they’d realize that the American people didn’t elect Defeatist Democrats because they wanted an end to the war. They elected Democrats because Democrats promised change in Washington, something that Democrats don’t intend on delivering on.
With a quarter of the term of the current Congress now done, it is clear that the cooperative approach adopted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA), and Senate Majority Leader Reid, (D-NV), hasn’t worked. It is not just that approval ratings for Congress are now below those of a failed president that Democrats were elected to challenge and constrain. It is that the disastrous war in Iraq, the central crisis of this American moment, continues to claim the lives of US troops and Iraqi civilians at an alarming rate.
Iraq is the “central crisis” of our time? This guy needs to take a Valium and chill out. Iraq continues to “claim the lives of US troops and Iraqi civilians at an alarming rate”? Perhaps Mr. Nichols can explain that in light of the fact that civilian casualties dropped 36 percent since the surge began and the troops guarding Ramadi, the former headquarters of AQI, are getting bored with the peace and quiet.
To be certain, I’m sure that Mr. Nichols wants to avoid talking about those statistics and stories. I’m just as certain that he doesn’t want to talk about Gen. Peter Pace’s interview with Time Magazine because he’d rather play politics with the war than deal with the consequences of the policy decisions.
One thing that I can state with total certainty is that Harry Reid’s scheduling a slumber party before voting for unilateral surrender shows he has the same sense of timing as Ms. Pelosi had in scheduling a hearing into global warming. You remember that hearing. It’s the one that got postponed because a monster ice storm hit Washington, DC.
After all that, I’ll just urge ‘Gen. Reid and his Round Heeled Brigade’ to charge up that hill to defeat. It’s a fitting conclusion to their reckless foreign policy.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
July 17th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
[...] Cross-posted at California Conservative Categories: Military, Iraq, Terrorism, President Bush, Pelosi, Foreign Policy, Harry Reid, Anti-War Activists, Defeatocrats | [...]
July 17th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Valium? I would say he needs some potassium cyanide.
July 17th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
The best strategy in Iraq is to keep our troops in heavily fortified bases outside the cities, and only send them out if they are leaving Iraq or if there is some foreign terrorists to kill.
Let the Iraqis handle internal sectarian violence on their own.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
“…they’d realize that the American people didn’t elect Defeatist Democrats because they wanted an end to the war. They elected Democrats because Democrats promised change in Washington, something that Democrats don’t intend on delivering on.”
My reading of it is that the majority of people didn’t vote for the donkeys, they voted against the overly-methaned cow gas that passes itself off as Republican now.
‘Course, that’s just an opinion ’bout the election, not the thieves.
July 18th, 2007 at 8:24 am
No, Carlos, your absolutely right.
Republicans ignored their base and the pleadings from their supporters to grow a couple and stand up to the Dingbacrats.
So their base, dumped them and to hell with the consequences in the hope they’d wise up.
Now we have a Congress with a majority that has no intention of changing its way of doing business, and a minority that seems to have no intention of doing anything at all.
October 11th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
[...] California Conservative can’t believe John Nichols thinks this is a smart move - I saw that too and couldn’t believe it either. Mr. Nichols is too full of himself (or full of bovine matter) if he thinks this PR stunt will endear Senate Democrats to the American people. [...]