Reid Convinces Pelosi That All Is Lost
We’ve known for awhile that Harry Reid has thought of the Iraq as a lost cause. Thanks to this article, we now know that he’s convinced Nancy Pelosi that it’s lost.
“As many had foreseen, the escalation has failed to produce the intended results,” the two leaders wrote. “The increase in US forces has had little impact in curbing the violence or fostering political reconciliation. It has not enhanced Americas national security. The unsettling reality is that instances of violence against Iraqis remain high and attacks on US forces have increased. In fact, the last two months of the war were the deadliest to date for US troops.”
Why should we believe Harry Reid about Iraq? (For that matter, why should we believe him about anything?) Harry Reid’s had a defeatist attitude seemingly forever. The first time it showed up was when Reid bragged about defeating the Patriot Act:
“We killed the Patriot Act,” boasted Minority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV), to cheers from a crowd at a political rally after the vote.
He followed that up by saying the Iraq war was lost and now by saying that the surge has failed. The biggest difference is that Nancy Pelosi has joined him this time. This isn’t surprising considering her top military advisor is ‘Okinawa’ John Murtha. It isn’t that Americans think that Iraq is going well. It’s that Pelosi and Reid have given voters a reason not to think of Democrats as serious about winning. That’s because Reid and Pelosi, two of the most tone-deaf politicians in history, have misread voters. I’m betting that the voters don’t like the idea of politicians that don’t enthusiastically cheer for our soldiers’ victories.
The other thing worth noting is that the surge troops aren’t fully in place yet, though that’s expected soon. In other words, Reid’s and Pelosi’s joint statement is an I’m sorry message to the Daily Kos/MoveOn.org Defeatocrats. Pelosi and Reid don’t care about winning. They never have. If they did, they wouldn’t have said the seditious things that they have, seditious things like “Twenty minutes ago, we defeated the Patriot Act.”
That’s why GOP activists must redouble their efforts to return the GOP back to majority status in the House and Senate and to put Giuliani or Thompson into the White House.
To do otherwise is to keep Reid and Pelosi in charge. That simply won’t do.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
June 14th, 2007 at 1:42 am
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June 14th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Senate Dems plan new round of Iraq votes
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday the Senate will face another round of votes on the Ir…
June 14th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Ancillary reason to keep donkeys from a majority includes keeping the theft of our hard-earned money to a painful boil (through porking).
Real reasons to keep elephants in the majority and the White House are judicial appointments and patriotism (yes, it is my personal opinion that Kennedy, Reid, Pelosi et al are unpatriotic).
Unfortunately, it is easy enough for the elephants, just like the donkeys, to become jackasses and justify pork spending (outright theft) by saying that “the people” elected me to bring those tax dollars home!
No, we elect you to keep taxes low, to really support the national security aims of our leaders, and to appoint judges who can understand the simple language of the Constitution without finding nuances and penumbras to establish judicial legislation.
We don’t elect people to keep and increase the theft of hard-earned money through redistribution of wealth and usurpation of constitutional boundaries.
They really need to get a clue, as do most of the presidential candidates for prez.
Vipers.