Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Fingers In His Ears & a-Humming Real Loud

Has Senate Majority Leader "Dirty Harry" Reid lost his mind? First he says we've "lost" the war in Iraq; then he says "the military mission has long since been accomplished." Now he's saying that he won't believe General Petraeus if the latter reports anything other than that Iraq is Vietnam circa 1975. And he's not the only Donk fleeing from reality.

Rush Limbaugh says that the Democrats are "invested in defeat". I'd take it further than that: they've gambled everything on being able to turn Iraq into another Vietnam debacle. If the "Surge" turns out to work beyond even the Enemy Media's ability to portray it as a disaster, the new majority will be left with nothing. High & dry. Substantively ruined.

But not politically so. They'll just pirhouette again and jump back on the bandwagon as though they'd never jumped off, and their press buddies will never call them on it. Heck, they'll go out of their way to highlight every disparaging word any RINO ever uttered to try and smear the Republicans as "unpatriotic" and run on a full-blown hawkish theme next year. And our side will be left going "humina-humina-humina" as usual.

That's why it would behoove what office-holding Pachyderms are left to jump down Dirty Harry's straw-sized throat right here, right now, to make sure he and his party can't slither away from their despicable seditions when they're no longer politically palatable. And if they ever get back the majority during Reid's senatorial tenure, perhaps they can construct a Capitol day care center and name the tantrum room after him.

The Nevada swindler does kind of resemble the late Fred Rogers' evil twin.

[h/t: DB]