and I keep telling these people they are being silly. Well it seems that once again folks...Including apparently big time insiders in D.C aren't as smart as me.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.
Terminating operations in Iraq right now with the folks who vote Democrat is approaching ice-cream levels of popularity. For the party to win the house and the senate in 2006 this means they need to nationalize the election much as the republicans did in 1994. The war in Iraq had a serious position to help the Democrats get their folks out and get them voting.
What this means however is the Democratic leaders realize they can't nationalize a dove position and win....Despite what Howard Dean says. But here we have an even bigger reason, a metaphysical reason this shows the Democrats have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory
Her comments ruling out a caucus position appeared to put Pelosi at odds with some other party officials. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean recently said Democrats were beginning to coalesce around a strategy that would pull out all troops over the next two years. Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said on the day Murtha offered his plan, "As for Iraq policy, at the right time, we'll have a position."
Emphasis mine. Their is a war going on, with American men and women dying in a hot land in Arabia. Billions of dollars are being spent hand over fist. If this isn't a right time in the eyes of party leaders to have an Iraq policy of some sort then it is clear they will probably never have a policy
but the Washington Post ends this article with some yummy Irony
"Not only did we take him down on that, but we took down a lot of his credibility as being somebody who cared about 'people like me,' " she said.
This from a woman who not only employs scab laborers to work on her farm, then recieves almost in a callous mocking way an award from the United Farm Workers union this shows the Irony of politics in this country. The elite in terms of just about everything are the folks who run this country, yet the protest some form of commonality to them and attack the other for being the guy who is out to screw 'people like me'
And also, the House Democrats amongst others ruined the President's credibility but did so by not offering a credible policy or a credible idea of their own to a giant elephant in all our living rooms.
So once again 2006 won't be the end of Republican control of Washington and the Democrats only have themselves to blame....
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