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| Congress in a war it can't win |
| 2007-02-22 |
| Jules Crittenden, Pajamas Media An American Congress has got itself into a war it can’t win. It is stuck. Can’t move forward, can’t move back. And Congress is starting to take casualties. It doesn’t know which way to turn. It’s a quagmire. The situation is dire, and congressmen everywhere are increasingly beleaguered. They have been unable to come up with any strategy for success, but more seriously, they haven’t been able to agree on a strategy for failure. One of their leading lights, Rep. John Murtha, has already been reduced to an object of derision and the danger is he will drag more of them down with him. Congress spent four days … four days! … yammering earnestly, and then cast a strong, uncompromising, forceful non-binding resolution with a self-negating caveat. The president of the United States, in reaction to this devastating congressional shock-and-awe campaign, said, “Thank you, that was interesting.” Since then, the Senate minority, wielding flimsy, antiquated procedural weapons, has tied down the Democratic juggernaut in the Senate. The situation is increasingly desperate. Americans, who had seen in the Democratic Congress a chance to extricate themselves from an unpopular conflict, appear to be coming to the conclusion that Bush’s war is a more attractive choice than the Democratic peace. . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Wonderful work the founding fathers did indeed. This is the last best hope to preserve freedom by clogging the arteries of the beast so as to prevent knee jerk spasms of profuse political pandering. The Three Card Monty of the Donks' "its all about the culture of corruption" campaign is now playing out in their true intended "its all about the war". They knew the latter could not give them Congress last November. The longer the game plays, the deeper they sink. Dig deeper, dig faster. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-02-22 19:53 |
| #2 Since then, the Senate minority, wielding flimsy, antiquated procedural weapons, has tied down the Democratic juggernaut in the Senate. After running procedural rings around Bill Frist's team, this has got to be a bit of a blow to Harry Reid. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-02-22 17:21 |
| #1 Ouch. Sadfunnypainful 'cuz its true. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-02-22 14:40 |