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August 22, 2007

Let’s Party Like It was Post-Election 2006

by AltHippo @ 1:55 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Coming back on-line today, I was distressed to see that the Democratic Majority is folding quicker than an origami tiger.

Washington Post: “And now the Democrats, along with wavering Republicans, will face an advertising blitz from Bush supporters determined to remain on offense. A new pressure group, Freedom’s Watch, will unveil a month-long, $15 million television, radio and grass-roots campaign today designed to shore up support for Bush’s policies before the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, lays out a White House assessment of the war’s progress. The first installment of Petraeus’s testimony is scheduled to be delivered before the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a fact both the administration and congressional Democrats say is simply a scheduling coincidence.”

Josh Marshall: “It’s like a very sad version of a sixty year old falling for that dingbat head fake ten year olds used to play when I was a kid in elementary school in which Kid A says he wants the football, Kid B says, ‘Fine, but if you take the football, you’re gay.’ And then Kid A stalks off hopelessly bamboozled and unable to parry this paralyzing riddle.”

For reasons that are doubtlessly clearer to him than they are to me, Chairman Bunnypants is speechifying that Vietnam taught us that we shouldn’t pull out of Iraq, at least until January 2009. I guess the reason he’s using Vietnam as a basis of comparison is that many of the die-hard right-wing believe that we should have stayed in Vietnam “until the job was done.” What was the job, and what would it look like when it was done? Who knows. It’s the same questions we’re asking about Iraq. If Cheney has his way we’ll be asking the same questions about Iran.

One rhetorical difference between Vietnam and Iraq is the notion of un-dead Islamo-fascist guerilla warriors traveling to the US and drown us in our swimming pools (or some other primal fear that Gerson copped from Nightmare on Elm Street).

As the Left Coaster asks: “As for Vietnam, if your claim is that they will follow us home if we leave Iraq too early, and are equating that to Vietnam, when exactly did the Viet Cong land in San Francisco?”

Woof, woof! What’s that sound you hear? Why it’s a Bush Dog Democrat playing fetch with his Republican overlord. Open Left has the details.

Speaking of Open Left, co-founder Chris Bowers is going to be at the Dupont Circle Libation Society (also known as the DC chapter of Drinking Liberally) tomorrow night. Maybe he can explain why the worst president evah, always gets his Dem.

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