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The Left Crows About Their Big Win
Now that Huffington Post really believes it is relevant, I thought it would be a good idea to get a representative samplng of the left's rank and file attitudes towards the next two years
The ugly American mark two is dead. Overnight six years of glib European identification of "American" with right-wing fundamentalism is over. The gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the Tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving, Beltway neo-con, damning abortion as murder and torturing Islamo-fascists has been lain to rest, and by a decision of the American people. Americans should be proud and the world should take note.
The guy got six of seven right. And I suspect the appelation beltway neocon only refers to those actually in Washington DC. Absent from this graf is reference to all the other "gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the Tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving" conservatives not in DC, in stark relief by its absence. It surely must be nice that DC is the only place "gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the Tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving" necons exist; couldn't be the tens of millions elsewhere.
In a high turnout the majority rejected the tenets of the religious right and of "big government" neo-conservativism. They expressed concern over the corruption and warmongering of Washington and the state of their economy in Bush's hands. For the Republicans there were no consolations.
This remains a mystery to me. Religious right? Bush has said less about religion now than he did when he first started. His initiatives were stopped cold by beltway politics, but they can now say the overturning of congress is a repudiation of the religious right?

And there were consolations. We get to see if the left can advance into congress with no agenda other than to retreat from Iraq. I seriously hope politics doesn't permit this because this time I will not let the left nor the right forget.

In other words, in pressing for a retreat from Iraq if so much as one follicle of one "gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the Tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving" soldier gets mussed there will be hell to pay in 2008. I will as one of the old timers at Rantburg have suggested, be on the ground for a return to congress.
The new congress is mandated to press ahead with a higher minimum wage, an end to pork-barrel budgeting, immigrant amnesty, energy conservation, stem cell research and radical changes to the drugs bill and welfare generally. Most of these may fall by the wayside, but they have behind them the winds of a mandate. Congress must find a way of curbing Bush's uncontrolled federal expenditure if a new Democrat president after 2008 is not to endure agonies of retrenchment. Whether Bush will decide to cooperate with such change in the hope of rescuing his floundering presidency is up to him. Certainly the only Republican of any stature, the war sceptic Senator John McCain, seems disinclined to help him.
Whoa. Where to start?

Firstly for a Pommie, this writer certainly did a job of expessing himself. Let's face it, immigrant amnesty is anathema to conservatives. This laundry list of goals are a non starter with the bare majority the left has, but that won't stand in the way of good invective.

And it suprises me not at all that a maginal wordsmith like this guy would refer to John McCain as a "republican with any stature." The man is not even mentioned in most presidential straw polls I have seen and when he is, he has negatives higher than a Hillary-Pelosi ticket would have.
The American military is know (sic) ...
To quote what every editor would say "How unfortunate" this was allowed to creep into perfectly good socialist invactive.
... to want to leave and Iraqis, whether those in power welcome it or not, sense the occupation is de facto over. At such a moment insurgency knows it has won, however long it takes the occupying power to go. Retreat becomes the only option. A wretched era of American interventionism has come to an end. A new day has dawned.
The mask didn't slip folks. This pussy removed it, knowing retreat will hand the Muslims a military victory.

The comments are no more revealing but they are entertaining running the gamut from "Yay, we're going to lose another war to don't count your chickens yet.

Posted by a "gun-toting, pre-Darwinian Bushite, the Tomahawk-wielding, Halliburton-loving" conservative

Doncha love the way it sounds?
Posted by: badanov 2006-11-12
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=171777