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Speak Truth to Moronocy

… Forget the domestic agenda.  If we don’t address the foreign agenda, the domestic agenda won’t matter. Here’s what I’d like to hear George Bush tell Congress tonight.  The State of the Union is a Disaster.  Pajamas Media.

Dr. Sanity’s SOTU message here:

We cannot simply close our eyes and pretend that the evil that is sweeping across the world will go away. Whatever accommodations the President makes tonight to the majority in Congress, he must not compromise on this issue.

The President has always been open to new ideas on how to win this war. He should never listen to those who only want to run away from it and have no new ideas except defeat. Defeat is not an option.

Never have the stakes been more clear.

Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes:

Without regard to who belongs to what party, just speaking as an American I’m awfully tired of debating whether our current President is bad, or inarticulate, or stupid, or laboring under a delusion that he’s Chosen By God. When he’s going home in two years no matter what, we cross the point of diminishing returns awfully quick when we go down the “slander George Bush and everything will all work out” bunny trail. You’ve beaten that dead horse into a crater full o’jello. Enough. The man is a non sequitur. I suggest you treat him like one, or else you risk becoming one yourself.

Psychopaths are out there trying to kill Americans. That’s the Number One issue. What is the Democratic Congress going to do about it?

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  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:26 am on Tuesday, January 23, 2007

10 Responses to “Speak Truth to Moronocy”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 11:22 am

   Bravo, Crittenden! Oh how I long for Bush (or anybody in the government at all) to actually say that stuff.

2. Bill's Bites Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 12:47 pm

   The Speech George Bush Should Make Tuesday Night

   The State of the Union is a Disaster:The Speech George Bush Should Make Tuesday NightExclusive to PJM by Jules Crittenden (h/t) Don’t bother standing up or clapping, any of you. I already know who won the election, and I know

3. bdfaith Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm

   Outfrickinstanding Jules. I thought Scott Ott was the only one who could write Presidential speeches like that. If only …

4. Purple Avenger Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm

   We can probably get away with deferring this one for now, but the antis need to recognize that (in)action for what it is –just a deferral.

   Like maintenance on a house, it can be deferred for a long time, but the final cost keeps going up and up. Right now we got a bad roof leak that’s starting to ruin the ceilings and hardwood floors and rot the roof planking. The joint ain’t gonna collapse for at least another 50 years, but living conditions are going to degrade noticeably.

5. saltydog Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 2:31 pm

   You sharpen the longing in my breast for this kind of honesty, Jules. Bravo.

6. SFBert Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 3:34 pm

   No debate about the current President being bad.
   One would have to be asleep for 6 years not to know he is.

   As for the War, What’s the plan?
   Note: Winning is a goal, not a plan.

7. philmon Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm

   As far as I can tell, the plan is to kill the bad guys while teaching normal Iraqis how to kill the bad guys, and try to protect the young democratic government until such a time as it can sustain its police and army and finish the killing of the bad guys, or until the bad guys give up and leave and go find greener pastures and normal Iraqis can get on with their lives and we leave.

   You know, a lot of times when an appliance breaks around my house, I open it up. I have no idea what’s wrong with it. I don’t have a plan. My initial plan is “see if I can identify a problem and decide if I think there’s anything I can do about it. If so, try it.”

   I find this to be a successful strategy most of the time. If I had to submit a detailed plan before I ever started, it wouldn’t get done.

   I’ve never found that letting it sit there, broken and unmolested — ever fixed a darned one of them.

8. jay k. Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 4:54 pm

   i love this. the president and his rubber stamp congress have had 6 years to muck things up…to the point of chaos. the taliban is resurgent. al queda has a phenomenal recruiting and training tool in the iraq war. korea is testing nukes. iran may be soon. and you are looking for the democratic congress to straighten it all out post haste. waddya say…can give them a couple more weeks?

9. Purple Avenger Says:
   January 23rd, 2007 at 8:31 pm

   and you are looking for the democratic congress to straighten it all out post haste.

   They’ve had the same amount of time to come up with alternative plans. Yet we see none.

10. CavMedic Says:
    January 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    You know I’ve talked to a couple of my classes about this over the last week or so. They don’t want to lose the war, they are just frustrated about what they see as the lack of progress. Of course it’s hard to know what victory will look like or when we will attain it but I know what defeat looks like. The administration and military leadership have made all sorts of mistakes, but none of them are ready to give up.

    I’m pretty sure there was a great man who said to never give up once upon a time.

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