Posted by: McQ on Saturday, December 22, 2007 Reid a couple of days ago. "The surge hasn't accomplished its goals," Reid said. "... We're involved, still, in an intractable civil war."Reid yesterday on NPR: "We sent other troops over there, and there are a lot of reasons the surge certainly hasn't hurt. It's helped. I recognize that.So where is this grudging acknowledgment of progress coming from? As I noted yesterday, its coming from Congressional Democratic "Iraq fatigue". It is slowly dawning on even Harry Reid that Iraq is becoming an election year loser for them. If progress continues, and that's not a given by any means, it will be interesting to see how much or little Dems address the subject. If you read the whole interview, you'll see the new "ethnic cleansing" talking point batted around by Reid (i.e. the only reason there's progress is the neighborhoods have been "ethnically cleansed" - another example of defining a term down). We've seen that same spurious argument proffered by our usual coterie of liberal commenters here. And then there's my favorite 'argument' which puts in a nutshell the problem with Democrats: But this war is costing us $12 billion a month in borrowed money. There are some who say it's already cost us about $800 billion. And that's direct cost for the war.Got that? National defense is "optional" and costs "too much money". Entitlements are mandatory and are where the money should, in fact, must go (BTW, Reid also totally mischaracterizes the Bush argument on SCHIP). If ever there were better proof of the present perversion of the Constitution by the left, I haven't seen it. |
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