Reality Check
Is the normally loyal liberal media starting to get cold feet about the likelihood of a U.S. defeat in Iraq?
Is the media in the process of deciding that they can't afford to be on the wrong side of history, and therefore may need to abandon the Democrats' flagship, the USS Loser?
Do Harry & Nanci perhaps feel the rug starting to slip from under them? Can they plausibly claim that stalwart allies like Newsweek and the NYT (see below) have suddenly turned into liars for Bush?
If Iraq continues to improve, this is going to get extremely interesting for a Democratic Party that is still frantically trying to create a defeat for the US military by cutting off funding for the war. They richly, richly deserve what may be about to happen to them, and it will be an enormous pleasure to watch.
Life Has Gotten Better in Baghdad - Rod Nordland, Newsweek
Violence in Iraq Continues to Drop - Buckley & Gordon, New York Times
Is the media in the process of deciding that they can't afford to be on the wrong side of history, and therefore may need to abandon the Democrats' flagship, the USS Loser?
Do Harry & Nanci perhaps feel the rug starting to slip from under them? Can they plausibly claim that stalwart allies like Newsweek and the NYT (see below) have suddenly turned into liars for Bush?
If Iraq continues to improve, this is going to get extremely interesting for a Democratic Party that is still frantically trying to create a defeat for the US military by cutting off funding for the war. They richly, richly deserve what may be about to happen to them, and it will be an enormous pleasure to watch.
Life Has Gotten Better in Baghdad - Rod Nordland, Newsweek
Violence in Iraq Continues to Drop - Buckley & Gordon, New York Times
posted by Byron | Tuesday, November 20, 2007
3 Comments:
Not only is the military proving what twits the left is, but now the Salvation Army is underscoring Pelosi's stupidity. The Pelosi-Reid combo, and all of that ilk, are not only seeing their death wish for our involvement in Iraq dissipate, but also their hopes for re-election. Let's hope the conservatives are sharp enough to exploit the plethora of evidence that condemns the left. I'm not hopeful about that, however.
"If God wanted us to vote, He would have given us candidates." - Jay Leno
- John
Unfortunately, Conservatives are not running; Republicans are. Although there are no Democrats left who are not liberal, there are plenty of Republicans who are not conservative. Pray for the Republic.
- Karl
I'm completely convinced that the best we can hope for is a divided government, composed of a GOP President (a Dem as C-in-C is way too dangerous), together with a narrowly Dem Congress (less than a veto-proof majority), and an originalist Supreme Court to protect the remaining vestiges of federalism.
The Founders did not invent the idea of separation of powers, but they had the genius to fully accept the premise that men are not angels, and therefore to adopt mutually limiting powers as a fundamental principle of government. That principle is valid at the party level also. Many theories of governance had condemned the existence of "factions," but competition between factions is the only effective defense of liberty in the long run. Nothing else works.
Just like the Democrats, the GOP proved last time around that it cannot handle control of all three branches. It was like giving a big pile of candy to a drooling baby, and it was bad for everybody, the party and the country. Today's Democratic Party in charge of all three branches is a prospect too awful to contemplate -- but if it happens, it will be largely the product of a hangover of public disgust with the GOP and its antics when it was briefly in control of everything. My point is not that the GOP is worse than the Democrats in this respect, it's that they are no better.
Three cheers for gridlock.
Byron
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