Not Buying It Anymore
Via Susie, Paul Krugman gets it exactly right.
Democrats will look at Gen. Petraeus’s uniform and medals and fall into their usual cringe. They won’t ask hard questions out of fear that someone might accuse them of attacking the military. After the testimony, they’ll desperately try to get Republicans to agree to a resolution that politely asks President Bush to maybe, possibly, withdraw some troops, if he feels like it.
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Finally, the public hates this war and wants to see it ended. Voters are exasperated with the Democrats, not because they think Congressional leaders are too liberal, but because they don’t see Congress doing anything to stop the war.In light of all this, you have to wonder what Democrats, who according to The New York Times are considering a compromise that sets a “goal” for withdrawal rather than a timetable, are thinking. All such a compromise would accomplish would be to give Republicans who like to sound moderate — but who always vote with the Bush administration when it matters — political cover.
…which is why I’m not buying it anymore. As Booman observes, “The longer the war goes on, the more people hate Bush and hate Bush’s party. But, at some point, you say, the people will begin blaming the Democrats for the war and this advantage will disappear. Perhaps, but it is far riskier to force an end to the war over the objections of the President and his party. Then we’ll have ownership over the consequences…which will not be pretty.
The Dems are reluctant to end this war because there is not enough political upside to it. The status quo is a bonanza.”
The entire venture has been immoral from the start: the Democrats who voted for the war, in my opinion, didn’t do so out of any real fear of Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent WMD. The vote was one of fear: after all, the 1990s “war” went so well and earned Poppy Bush a few ticks on ye olde popularity meter (just not enough to beat the Clenis in 1992), and who wants to be the object of jeers and catcalls? And now that the new war is going so poorly, the Democrats are content to let the Republicans bleed to death slowly. Well, figuratively at least: it’s our sons and daughters who are doing most of the bleeding, unless you count the occasional paper cut when you’re passing bills you don’t even bother to read.
Who in their right mind can support either of these cowardly, murderous parties? One raids the treasury and sends our kids to die in the desert for short-term political gain, while they other refuses to take measures to bring them home, breaking promises to the voters in the name of short-term political gain?
Do not ask me for money Democrats. You’re likely to receive a pile of dogshit in the mail.
Maybe you can eat it, motherfuckers (special Larry Craig edition). Between both of your vile, corrupt, and immoral parties, you’ve forced the rest of us to eat it since 1980.
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