According to Las Vegas Review-Journal journalist Sherman Frederick’s latest column, Harry Reid is engaging in political doublespeak. Here’s what Mr. Frederick cites as proof:

The U.S. Senate passed a war-funding bill last week. According to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV), this will “change the course in Iraq” by giving our troops “an effective, successful strategy for victory in Iraq.” Why, just reading that you’d think that Sen. Reid is giving American soldiers a green light to kick some major butt in Baghdad. You’d be wrong. What Harry is really saying is that “victory” means hightailing it out of Iraq.

Reid and other anti-war Democrats in red states are in a pickle over the war. They can’t sound like East Coast anti-war liberals like John Murtha. On the other hand, they can’t afford to speak out for victory in Iraq because then they’d lose the campaign contributions they get from the anti-war gang.

What’s happening as a result is that they have to make statements like Reid made to his constituents when he’s home, then making a totally different statement to appease the anti-war moonbats when he’s in DC. The bad news for Harry is that that’s what Tom Daschle did with South Dakotans. Daschle got away with that until John Thune called him on it. Thune is now the junior senator from South Dakota. Tom Daschle is working the DC talking circuit.

Whoever taught Harry critical thinking skills back at Basic High School in the 1950s can’t be happy. His creative writing teacher, however, must be ecstatic, because calling what the Senate did last week “an effective, successful strategy for victory in Iraq” is about as far from reality as one can get.

Show me a Democrat with genuine critical thinking skills and I’ll tell you that their names are Zell Miller or Joe Lieberman. Show me a Democrat with “creative writing” skills and you could be talking about anyone from the Clinton administration, a Democratic political operative or from one of the Democrats’ special interest groups. In other words, they’re a dime a dozen.

No one with an ounce of intellectual integrity can seriously call the Senate’s action a blueprint for military success in Iraq. Arizona Sen. John McCain may not be my favorite political cup of tea, but he called it right on this one: “This bill should be named the Date Certain for Surrender Act. A second-year cadet at West Point could tell you that if you announce when the end will be, it’s a recipe for defeat.”

I’m with Mr. Frederick in saying that John McCain isn’t “my favorite political cup of tea” either. Mr. Frederick is right when he says that McCain nails it in calling this legislation a “Date Certain for Surrender Act.” Reid’s engaging in duplicitousness of the the worst kind. He should be made to pay with his political life the next time he’s up for re-election.

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1. If Reid is in a “pickle”, why are they even there???

   Just because a state is colored red on the electoral college chart doesn’t mean its 100% Godwater-Reagan conservative.

   Your niavete sometimes astounds me.

   Comment by T. A. Gray — April 2, 2007 @ 8:18 am

2. Just put a question mark on the end and call it news - ie: This blog sucks?

   Cons want to kill everyone instead of negotiating, just like the groups we are at war with. Birds of a feather…

   Comment by Jacob — April 5, 2007 @ 4:26 pm