BDS
Now, here’s an interesting example of what Lieberman was talking about, when he talked about people whose Bush rage blinds them to the threat posed by those who are murdering American soldiers. But this isn’t a Democratic member of Congress. One of their water carriers.
Eugene Robinson has a column in the Washington Post. This is a tremendous privilege. He commands some of the nation’s prime opining real estate. And it is pretty amazing, when you look at the tripe he writes. Here, for example, he condemns the Bush administration, and the “dismal mess” it will leave for whoever comes next. It’s warmed-over, distorted Bush-bash of the sort any college sophomore could regurgitate.
Robinson starts by making fun of the notion of Bush Derangement Syndrome, heralding the ”epidemic” as he notes the usual poor Bush polling numbers. Significantly poorer Congressional polling numbers noticeably absent in Robinson’s column. But it’s when he gets into the mess that Bush will hand his successor that Robinson demonstrates himself to be, at worst, an ignoramus, and at best, a rather weak propagandist.
The next president will be left with more than 100,000 U.S. troops bogged down in Iraq, with an unfinished war in Afghanistan — and, between those two crises, a strengthened and emboldened Iran that hopes to dominate the world’s most dangerous region. Nice work.
Bush’s successor will, incredibly, assume control of a United States government that interrogates suspected terrorists with “enhanced” techniques known throughout the world by a much simpler term: torture. The new commander in chief will almost surely take custody of hundreds of people detained without formal charges and on questionable evidence, and held for years in secret CIA prisons or at Guantanamo. The next president will take over a government that claims the right to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens without meaningful judicial oversight.
Whoever takes office in January 2009 will be left with a more polarized economy — an America where the rich have been made richer during the past six years with generous tax cuts, while more than 40 million people struggle without health insurance. The new president will be left with a government that not only failed miserably in its response to the most extensive natural disaster the nation has ever faced but that also reneged on Bush’s pledge to rebuild a better New Orleans — and to make it possible for all those who lived in the city to return.
You’ve got your warmed-over, one-sided Katrina blame game and your standard-issue nationalized health care argument. You’ve got your stock Bush-lied-people-died. At no point … as he decries the wars we are engaged in, as he notes that they haven’t been tidied up just yet, notes that they are expensive, notes that another may be looming, states without evidence, in fact in defiance of evidence, that the United States is engaged in torture … does he address the critical national security issues that were and are bound up in those wars or the difficulties of trying to undo decades and centuries of tyrannical rule and backwardness in the Middle East. Nor, with regard to the challenges of the Bush administration, does he mention the attack that changed everything. We are apparently to assume that Bush, bumbling fool, is singlehandedly responsible for the world’s woes, as though al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were peacefully minding their own business before he barged in. Apparently wars are supposed to be brief and bloodless, without missteps. In Iraq, we’re “bogged down.” Situation hopeless. For Robinson, there has been no Sunni Awakening, no dramatic drop in violence. We’re informed Bush is leaving us with a strengthened and emboldened Iran that seeks to dominate the region, which is rich. Last time I checked, George Bush and the evil puppetmaster Cheney are the only major office holders who appear to be interested in doing something about that. It’s Democratic leaders and candidates who are interested in emboldening Iran, by encouraging appeasement, talks with Islamic extremists who are implicated in the murder of American soldiers.
It’s astonishing that a Washington Post columnist appears to be so ignorant of current events, let alone recent history. I’d suggest Robinson might want to have a chat with Bill Clinton about bin Laden and Saddam, and talk to Jimmy Carter about Iran. On second thought, never mind. Those guys actually think they did a good job. Because they were able to pass their messes on without anyone noticing.
Robinson closes by lamenting the 14 1/2 months remaining, wondering how we’ll ever make it through. It is indeed a mystery. All the evidence indicates we’re winning in Iraq, and the Democratic Congress has chosen to waste everyone’s time and endanger the hard-won progress there with another tantrum. And that, Gene, is what BDS is.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:10 am on Saturday, November 10, 2007
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November 10th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Doesn’t it seem like there’s a note of desperation in the latest BDS squawkings? Almost as if BDS sufferers are realizing that it’s too late to change their tune without looking like utter tools, but also that nobody is listening to them anymore.
November 10th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Time to send him to BDS rehab?
November 10th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
“Because they were able to pass their messes on without anyone noticing.”
Anyone? or just the liberal press?
November 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
The WaPo for whatever reason have decided to be hardcore dead enders. Even the NYT is cracking and printing the occasional positive story.
November 10th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
RebeccaH:
Not merely a deseperation, but a sense that they can no longer control destiny, and that not every one who has a dislike for Bush is going to go along with some of the mental-ward crazy solutions offered by these lunatics. It is that desperation that will cause those people to snap and do something that will either harm themselves or harm others.
We are quickly facing a newer, more dangerous faction of the Manson family, and BDS is the fuel that fires these people up to do insane things.
November 10th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Web Reconnaissance 11/10/2007
A short recon of whats out there that might draw your attention updated throughout the dayso check back often.
This is a weekend edition so updates are as time and family permits.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:41 am
Hey, corndog hasn’t dropped by for a while. Maybe he’s toughing it out in BDS rehab!
November 13th, 2007 at 9:57 am
“The new commander in chief will almost surely take custody of hundreds of people detained without formal charges”
Kinda like Roosevelt locking up thousands of American citizens during WWII without charging them with any crime, except the people the liberals locked up were totally innocent of any wrongdoing (as well the libby wibbys knew…if they’d really thought that the nisei were disloyal there wouldn’t have been any such thing as the 442nd RCT…think about it for a second, and you’ll see that what I’m saying is obviously true).
“Bush’s successor will, incredibly, assume control of a United States government that interrogates suspected terrorists with “enhanced” techniques known throughout the world by a much simpler term: torture.”
I heard that the libby wibbys were planning on torturing the 200,000 or so Japanese civilians who were in Nagasaki and Hiroshima when the Dems a-bombed those cities… until they found out you can’t really hurt people who have been burned to cinders.
“The next president will take over a government that claims the right to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens without meaningful judicial oversight.”
Much like FDR’s Office of Censorship…except they spied on everybody, not just suspected enemy agents.
Most of what the libby wibbys claim the Bush administration is doing is a bunch of crap…but, the things the libbys say they object to, they’ve done on a much larger scale when they were in power.
And, that ain’t crap.
That’s the truth.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
“The next president will be left with more than 100,000 U.S. troops bogged down in Iraq, with an unfinished war in Afghanistan — and, between those two crises, a strengthened and emboldened Iran that hopes to dominate the world’s most dangerous region. Nice work.”
By that standard, of course, George Bush is a lot better president than FDR, Truman or LBJ…which happens to be the case.