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A What In The Room?

Blind man at NYT attempts to describe what it is he has found in the House. George Bush has lost repeatedly to Congress all year, NYT tells us:  

 WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — Until last weekend, President Bush had repeatedly fallen short in seven months of battles with a Democratic-led Congress that would not give him what he wanted on immigration or education, health care or energy policy.

But the Congressional vote that authorized eavesdropping without warrants on international communications, including those involving Americans within the United States, has shown that there is at least one arena in which Mr. Bush can still hold the line: terrorism. (See, “Democrats, Republican accusations of being weak on …”)

NYT actually gropes at the legs of the elephant in the room, but can’t quite figure out what it is.

The Democrats’ critique of Mr. Bush’s conduct of the war in Iraq certainly contributed to their victory in midterm elections last November. And the Democratic candidates for president can count on thunderous applause when they attack Mr. Bush for his failure to capture Osama bin Laden, and for a heavy-handed approach at home.

But while the Democrats had hoped to leave town for the August recess on an upbeat note, Mr. Bush and his party succeeded in outflanking them with veiled — and not so veiled — warnings that any failure to give the president the authority he sought would leave his rivals liable in the event of another terrorist attack.

For a president who has played defense most of the year, relying on veto threats and, in terms of Iraq, almost plaintive pleas for time, it was a rare, winning use of offense. The victory points up an enduring challenge for Democrats, even as they have gained other advantages over Mr. Bush and his fellow Republicans.

It’s an elephant, you dopes!* You could call it “Dumbo,” that’s a cute elephant name, but I called “Congressional Surrenderlust.” Single most important, most trumpeted political issue of the year, and NYT apparently hasn’t figured out that George Bush is the mahout and has that thing under control, having won every withdrawal vote and Iraq war meddling fight. Even when they passed that resolution.  You know, the House only, non-binding one. 

*Actually, I think the zoologists at NYT know exactly what that thing is.  They simply don’t understand what it is doing in that room and this particular Marlin Perkins has chosen to do some fancy camera work to keep it out of this Mutual of NYT Wild Kingdom episode. It has rendered the Dem Cong not just weak on terror, but actively pro-al-Qaeda, pro-Iran in their efforts to undermine stability and anti-terror operations in the Middle East.

Apologies in advance to any political purists who may be upset with potential confusion of blind men describing/elephant in room/GOP elephant metaphors.  The utter failure of Dem Cong to achieve their top goal is, for our purposes today, a Democratic elephant in the room that certain myopic media can’t bring themselves to describe.

Topics: media, pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:05 am on Tuesday, August 7, 2007

6 Responses to “A What In The Room?”

1. sarah rolph Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 11:44 am

   Give ‘em hell, Jules! You are so right.

2. saltydog Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 1:01 pm

   If it doesn’t involve national security secrets or other items that make the US and Bush look bad, the NYT is in a self-induced fog.

3. Dave Surls Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 1:53 pm

   “And the Democratic candidates for president can count on thunderous applause when they attack Mr. Bush for his failure to capture Osama bin Laden…”

   We could follow the Clinton liberal Dem plan re terrorism: (effectively) ignore terror attacks on the United States and attack Serbia instead (helping the jihadists in the KLA).

   Or not.

4. 4iraqisfuture Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

   After stealing a vote to give illegal aliens welfare benefits last week Nancy Pelosi came out with a New York Times worthy alternate reality headline.

   We simply have been “deluged by the success of the Democrats on behalf of the American people,” she said.

   From “the Stolen Vote” by Rep. John Boehner

   “…according to the Washington Post, a “defiant” Speaker Pelosi brushed aside this disgraceful moment in democracy by asserting that Republicans were frustrated. We simply have been “deluged by the success of the Democrats on behalf of the American people,” she said.

   The Deluge of Success

   Since January, the current majority has had the opportunity to use its power to do great things for the American people. That opportunity has been utterly and tragically squandered. Instead of doing great things, the Democrats have taken actions that make all of us look small, and “deluged” the American people with bad public policy:

   • They stuck pork-barrel spending for peanuts and spinach on a bill meant to fund American troops in harm’s way.

   • They created slush funds for secret earmarks, attempting to spend billions of taxpayer dollars without transparency.

   • They jammed “green pork” accounts into the energy tax bill, allowing taxpayer funds to be used to subsidize things like Lexus Hybrids in Beverly Hills and putting copies of Al Gore’s book in children’s classrooms.

   • They voted to look the other way when the Speaker’s own choice for majority leader broke House rules by threatening a Republican member who dared to challenge an illegitimate earmark.

   • They stonewalled lobbying reforms that require lobbyists to disclose taxpayer-funded earmarks for which they’re lobbying Congress, repealed Republican reforms requiring earmarks in tax and authorizing to be publicly disclosed and subject to challenge on the House floor, and killed legislation requiring taxpayer-funded state and local government lobbyists from following the congressional gift ban as they lobby for pork.

   • They trumpeted passage of a lobbying reform bill largely indistinguishable from the one Republicans passed through the House last year — the bill Democratic leaders condemned at the time as a “sham.”

   continued…

   http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21834&page=1#c1

5. Purple Avenger Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

   Other than the fringe paranoid left with a big dope farm in their basements, the vast majority of people don’t have any problem with us eavesdropping on suspected terrorists, warrant or not.

6. RebeccaH Says:
   August 8th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

   “Deluged with success”? More like “Drowning in sewage”.

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