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Politics:
Democrats are betting everything on President Bush losing in Iraq, a
disgrace in itself. But if they lose instead, they'll find themselves a
one-issue party, thoroughly discredited, with nothing to fall back on.
The Democrat-controlled Congress
may think it won a huge victory over the president Friday. The House
voted 246-182 on a nonbinding resolution opposing the troop surge in
Iraq, with 17 Republicans joining the anti-war Democrats.
*snip*
The latest reports suggest a remarkably swift
response to our new military strategy under counterinsurgency expert
Gen. David Petraeus in his new position as commander of our forces in
Iraq.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking to
Bush in a video conference call, described last week™s joint offensive
in Baghdad by U.S. and Iraqi forces, which met minimal resistance, as a
œbrilliant success.�
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Viewed from even the most cautious of perspectives,
this is extraordinarily early good news. But congressional Democrats
seem oblivious to it all.
Go to the MoveCongress.org site and you'll find a
photo of Democratic Rep. John Murtha conducting œan exclusive online
briefing� Thursday for the most radical anti-war protesters. Murtha
discussed œhis strategy to use the president's Iraq funding request to
stop the surge and begin the redeployment of troops from Iraq.�
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So far, Democratic leaders have not actually tried
to defund operations in Iraq ” though both Pelosi and Murtha have
suggested they may soon try. But as appearances go, what difference is
there? Pelosi's best pal is actively involved in assisting the most
powerful advocacy groups for surrender in the central battlefront in
the global war on terror.
If the early military gains we've seen continue, and
if we actually turn things around and are able to leave Iraq having
established a stable representative government, what will the Pelosis
and the Murthas, and their counterparts in the Senate such as Harry
Reid, say? So fully have they committed themselves to losing that,
should we win, they can take no credit whatsoever.
Having thus stuck their necks out, they will have
been politically decapitated. They'll return in the minds of the public
to being the party of higher taxes, out-of-control entitlement programs
that they refuse to fix, abortion on demand, same-sex marriage and
every other item in the far-left playbook.
The Democrats last week may just have voted
themselves a oneway ticket back to the political wilderness and
minority status. [Full Article]
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