Surrender Surrender
What is this, some kind of Dembar Awakening*?
Dems Seem Ready to Extend Wire Tap Powers.
Waving the white flag on surrender?
Congressional Democrats rode anti-war sentiment to victory last fall — but they are staking their success in the final months of this year’s calendar on more traditional domestic issues amid concern that the war may not be the potent political issue it once was by Election Day 2008.
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“Iraq has always been the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but there are other issues to deal with,” said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). “We did well with our initial agenda. Now we need to move on to a broader agenda.”
But there’s another driving factor under the radar: a latent concern that Iraq may not be as favorable a political issue for Democrats a year from now, as images of brigades of U.S. troops coming home could well be flickering on American television screens.
“They’ve run millions of dollars of ads and had untold rallies and protests, but they’re actually losing approval” on the war, said Don Stewart, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Not that many coming home, but there will be some. If current trends continue, however, its going to start looking less like a war. There’s hope for the Dems, however. Iran whack will provide plenty of squawking opportunities.
I’m a little mystified by Jim Manley’s “did well with our initial agenda” remark. But if that’s doing well, they I hope they do even better moving forward.
* Awakening, noun, chiefly Iraqi, political-military movement or development in which an adversary ceases to resist and may even join forces against a common enemy, having recognized futility and/or self-interest.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:22 am on Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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October 9th, 2007 at 8:08 am
They just wanted to bottom out the benchmarks for reprehensible behavior, so anything they do in the future would seem to be more moderate.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:54 am
“staking their success in the final months of this year’s calendar on more traditional domestic issues”
These must be the vaunted “kitchen table issues” that Dick Gephart was always yapping about. I knew I wasn’t of a mind with these folks when I realized that my family doesn’t sit around the kitchen table wanking about how our lives aren’t being subsidized by the government.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:59 am
I’m not greatly confident in the American public’s memory span, but I, for one, will not be forgetting the years of pandering and obstruction. In particular, while they may want to focus on “domestic issues”, Pelosi, Murtha, and Reid are still in charge of Congress. Until that cabal is gone, I have no intention of trusting them.
October 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Web Reconnaissance for 10/09/2007
A short recon of whats out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
off topic, sort of, but: imagine being an orphan in an orphanage run by Hillary.