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Dawn Over DC

This is what it would look like: 

Step 1. Dems acknowledge impotent overreach.   

Step 2. Dems acknowledge lack of mandate.

Step 3. Dems acknowledge they are wrong.

Step 4. Dems begin to support the troops and actively plot ways to win the war.

They just took Step 1.  But they are not interested in Steps 2 and 3. Their plotting of other mechanisms to undercut the war indicates their losses to date have not prompted any interest in either supporting the troops or winning the war.  They may have to repeat Step 1 a few more times. The fact that Reid wants to revive debate on a measure to force withdrawal by March 2008 suggests he wasn’t paying attention to himself when he just acknowledged impotent overreach.  Step 1 was just about making excuses, trying to win back the anti-war zealots to avoid further loss of what little political leverage they have, and trying to get past the fact that no one has any respect for the Dem Cong anymore. 

Reid’s cynical, politically motivated moment of silence for the 3,500th soldier killed in Iraq does not constitute a leapfrog to Step. 4.  That would be seeing to it that soldier did not die in vain. 

Podhoretz: Americans aren’t blaming Bush, they’re blaming everybody.

Strata-sphere: Reid admits Dems lied to their base. I think they got caught up in their own rhetoric and believed their own PR.

QandO: Nutroots not impressed.

Topics: Iraq, pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:45 am on Wednesday, June 13, 2007

6 Responses to “Dawn Over DC”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   June 13th, 2007 at 1:00 pm

   Just another day in the incredible fustercluck that is Washington D.C.

2. saltydog Says:
   June 13th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

   There seems to be nothing that Reid doesn’t suck at–including “apologies.”

   I voted in my first presidential election in ‘68. I’ve seen some incompetence in government in my life, but I honestly don’t remember things ever being this bad. Maybe the old-timers disease from which I suffer has fogged my memory, but I don’t remember the debate, etc., being at such a consistently low level, no matter the party, no matter the subject at hand. It isn’t just pathetic, it’s dangerous and scary. And these are the people who demand the right to regulate even our food–because they know better.

3. Ed Driscoll.com Says:
   June 13th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

   Not Exactly “Morning In America”

   But Jules Crittenden explores what “Dawn Over DC” should look like….

4. alphie Says:
   June 13th, 2007 at 7:27 pm

   Why can’t the Dems just follow the wingnut plan for victory in Iraq:

   Peter Pan: This won’t do. What’s the matter with you? All it takes is faith and trust. Oh! And something I forgot. Dust!

   Wendy, John: Dust?

   Michael: Dust?

   Peter Pan: Yep, just a little bit of pixie dust. Now, think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings.

   Second country to the right and straight on ’til Rapture Day!

5. Bullshark Says:
   June 13th, 2007 at 10:48 pm

   3500 dead? Not a catastrophe no matter what anyone says. But each and everyone a tragedy. From Ryan Beaupre,Paul Smith, Jason Dunham, Ike Shelton, Seth Trahan, James Blachenbeckler to SSG Matt Maupin still missing after all this time. When someone makes an issue of all the dead ask them to name one, just one. Yeah, thats what I thought

6. Bullshark Says:
   June 14th, 2007 at 8:58 am

   Oops! not Shelton obviously, but Sinclair.

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