Reply #30: Leading up to 2006 elections - GOP will proclaim victory [View All]

[Seabiscuit]

I'm not surprised that these a-holes are adopting the democratic plan as their own. These a-holes don't want to lose their jobs now that their Dumbass-in-chief is going down the toilet. They know the public thinks this war is a stinker in the worst way. They have to find an alternative way to stay in power, what better way than to steal a democrat plan for an exit strategy and timetable.

The Repukes will distance themselves from Dumbya and will market themselves in the media as the victors in getting the US out of the war. I can just see Tweety salivating now at their leadership. :puke:

John Cusak in the Huffington Post also saw this trend prior to today, (quite prescient):

"The Republicans, especially leading up to the 2006 elections, with the Bush administration crumbling, KNOW they have to find a way out of Iraq. So they will basically find a way to declare victory and do something that looks like a withdrawal, and the Democrats will be left as passive bystanders -- because they don't have the courage to suggest that people who lied to get us into war should not only not be in office, they should be in prison. "

AND

"Last Tuesday, Harry Reid demonstrated wonderful signs of life. The question now is, are they going to build on this, or is it going to be an isolated episode that doesn't lead to a fundamental shift? Will enough Democrats now be willing to admit that voting to authorize the war was a mistake? Whether they were genuinely misled, they bought into it, or they were too cowardly to vote for what they believed was true, it was a mistake. Will they now have the courage to say, "This was wrong, and that we need to get our brave troops out of Iraq now."

Are the Democrats going to offer an alternative plan to get us out of Iraq? Are they going to fill this vacuum created by the chaos in Iraq and a scandal-plagued administration in tatters, or are they going to wait for the Republicans to do it their way, reap the political diviedends, and leave the Democrats sniping outside the palace gate?"

I do have to add that I'm very proud of the democrats that fight the b.s. from the GOP everyday. Levin, Reid, Waxman, Conyers and many more that give me hope.