Posted on 09/28/2002 3:57:28 PM PDT by Pokey78
"The only real question was how long Daschle could keep this up before he cracked. On Wednesday, the South Dakotan choked up on the Senate floor and angrily demanded that Bush apologise to every Democratic veteran for implying the party was somehow soft on the war."
All the while, wearing his pink power tie.
P.F.M. (Pure frickin' magic)
Steyn and others have recently criticized President Bush for not acting more decisively in respect of Iraq. I've tended to agree with these criticisms but now I believe Steyn himself has hit on the brilliance of Bush's deliberate approach, as indicated by the above quote.
As I understand it, the British Labour Party is divided between those in favour of war with Iraq and those opposed to it. In the US Democratic Party, it's more complicated:.
Faction A is anti-war but trying hard not to have to say so between now and election day in November.
Faction B was pro-war when it was Bill Clinton in charge but anti-war now there's a Republican rallying the troops.
Faction C can go either way but huffily insists that to ask them to express an opinion would be to "politicise" the war.
Faction D can't quite figure which position alienates least of their supporters and so articulates a whole all-you-can-eat salad bar of conflicting positions and then, in a weird postmodern touch, ostentatiously agonises over the "inherent risks" in each of them.
Faction E thinks the priority right now should be to sit around holding inquiries into why the administration failed to act on what it knew about al-Qa'eda before they killed thousands of Americans. To act on what we know about Saddam before he kills thousands of Americans would be an unnecessary distraction from the important work of investigating why we didn't act last time round.
Taken as a whole, the 50 Democratic senators' current positions on Iraq forms the all-time record multiple-contortionist pretzel display. But a week ago they showed signs of finally remembering the First Rule of Holes: when you're in one, stop digging. Instead of talking about why they don't want to talk about Iraq, they correctly figured that the easiest thing would be to give Bush some qualified, perfunctory support and hastily change the subject to something more favourable, such as the allegedly collapsing economy.
But then Al Gore rose from the dead......
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Five weeks till election day and the Democratic Party's doing a dandy impression of one of those incompetent suicide bombers who accidentally self-detonates before he gets on the bus.
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<< Five weeks till election day and the Democratic Party is doing a dandy impression of one of those incompetent suicide bombers who accidentally self-detonates before he gets on the bus. >>Yep!
Please, Dear Lord?!
VINTAGE ROCK'N'ROLL STEYN!!
Soul Mates: The Meltdown Continues
Tom Daschle calls Dick Gephardt
his "partner and soul mate" in the
afterglow of his mid-week meltdown.
This is too good...
Week of 9-23-2002
IMO the Daschle/Gephardt combo was plotted to cater to the homosexual/pro-abortion wing of the liberal democrat party. The wearing of the pink tie and the use of the phrase 'soul mates' are specifically designed affectations used to send a message to the wealthiest and most likely voters in the liberal base...and the very basest use of polling data.
For various reasons, well summed up by Steyn, the ploy is patently obvious to all. For all their guise and hyperbole the antics of Daschle and Gephardt amount to nothing more than spitting in the wind.
The sight of the Democratic Party "wrestling" (as Al put it) with its conscience over Iraq is like some old-time carney freakshow:Wow.
it's strangely compelling, but you can't help feeling it's cruel to put these misfits on public display..." - Mark Steyn
What a POWERFUL (and accurate!) word picture!Mark Steyn RULES!
RAT party group portrait (2002)
from the movie Freaks (1932)
But you are understating! This is the BEST article I've read yet, either about the Rats or Gore or Daschole or Iraq. Thanks for the ping, pokey. A definite bookmarker!!
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