Posted on 07/18/2007 9:16:06 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Democratic Death Wish
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Published 7/19/2007 12:08:01 AM
WASHINGTON -- It looks like a death wish to me. The Democrats' recent all-night debate to confect legislation for pulling our troops out of Iraq immediately if not sooner suggests that they are, en masse, afflicted with a death wish -- and if their retreat gets more of our troops killed while transforming Iraq into bloody anarchy, they do not seem to care. Hysteria has seized them. Not long ago most of them were prepared to give General David Petraeus's new strategy a chance. After all, the Senate returned him to Iraq by an 81 to 0 vote. Now the Democrats want the general to begin a retreat even before tendering his agreed upon September report -- a death wish, I say.
The evidence is that the American people are watching this Congress and what they see they do not like. According to a recent Zogby poll, this Democrat-controlled Congress is now more unpopular than President George W. Bush, who, incidentally, will not be seeking reelection. Maybe many of these Democratic solons plan to retire too. According to the Zogby poll, 83% of the American people say the Democratic Congress is doing only a fair to poor job. Just 66% hold such a sour view of the President. In fact, this Democrat-controlled Congress is even more unpopular than the Republican-controlled Congress that it replaced. On its deathbed the Republican-controlled Congress had but a 23% approval rating. Today's Democrats have a 14% approval rating. I say death wish!
What makes this all the more bizarre is that General Petraeus's new strategy seems to be working..
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Headin for the cliff of 1972.
//of course they don’t care . The Democratic party is willing to sacrifice the entire country in their lust for power. They NEVER EVER got over loosing to bush the last time and vendetta is what motivates everything they do .
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
We first got rid of a LOT of RINOs ... unfortunately some good ones were ousted too. Now we have the idiot moonbats on full parade. for all to see Hopefully we will be rid of most of them in 2008
And all President Bush has to do is build a fence and he will be up to 45%+ the congress can do nothing to improve.
LOL! I hope Tyrrell didn't speak too soon about Bloomy.
Good column and appropriately titled.
If anybody in the good 'ole USA still bothers to vote in '08, maybe this debilitating trend can be reversed.
It's either that, or hunker down. Oh, and buy more ammo.
'08 is just around the corner, we'll know soon enough.
I agree, Smooth. I’ve been reading his columns for a while now and he’s good.
Hey smooth!!!!...Lets get a hold of Diana Irey and see if she would try again to replace Jack Murtha’s House seat. I’am ready to move and help!!!!!!!......
The polls also say that most Americans, while tired of the war, don't want us to lose the war. And the Democrats simply cannot understand why being weak on defense and weak on terrorism (it's just a bumper sticker, don't cha know) keeps eliminating them from the Presidential sweepstakes, as it will do again in 2008.
Anything's possible, Diana would be my first choice, too!
When your father (radical Dems) and their father (radical Islams) is the same Devil, your goals are naturally going to be the same.
I fear running out of Popcorn.
The Dems can’t decide who their economic guru should be. One day, they are in love with Chavez. The next day it’s Mugabe. The day after it’s Hillery.
As George Wallace once said, “Not two bits worth of difference..”
Hi y'all,
I was thinking the same thing, but apparently she is up for reelection this year for the job that she held when she ran the last time (Washington County Commissioner). They just had the primary a few months ago, and the general election will be in November. Visit www.irey.com for more details.
Quite true, of course. But they will, with their enablers (media, etc.), blame our defeat on Republicans, all the while hoping they'll fool enough people into believing them. It's all they've got left, and it's just further proof of how demented the Democrat Party and the left in general is today.
They're terrified that folks will figure them out.
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