Webloggin » SOTU - Confusion and Opposition Is The Name Of The Game

Has anybody noticed how “stay the course“, once the vanguard of Democrat criticism against President Bush, is now the very thing that Democrats think President should be doing at this stage in the game? Likewise, the claims that we didn’t have enough troops in Iraq was once the standard line for those who thought they had a better plan, but now the call for more troops is the wrong one to make.

WASHINGTON - President Bush wants Congress to give his controversial strategy for Iraq a chance to work. Defiant Democrats say they’ll give it a vote, and use their newly won control over the House and Senate to oppose the deployment of an additional 21,500 troops.

“And we will continue to hold him accountable for changing course in Iraq,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday night in a blunt response issued before the applause had fully faded on Bush’s State of the Union address. - AP News

This all might seem odd to a casual observer of the news except that there is no such thing as a casual observer when all chambers of the MSM fire with the same coordinated opposition message. This message is repeated regularly in television, radio and print news, on sitcoms, dramas, soap operas, liberal blogs, press conferences, late night talk shows, and sadly even in U.S. schools.

The opposition crowd is on a roll. But ask them or anyone else to explain the alternative plan and you are likely to get many different answers if you are lucky enough to get one at all. Many on the left oppose military action but are quick to voice their tepid support of the troops. These same people who criticized President Bush for not sending in enough troops now want him to do just the opposite. They are so confused or underhandedly disingenuous that they have come up with fancy doublespeak such as redeployment to obfuscate the fact that it actually means “cut and run”. Winning the war in Iraq actually means giving up without admitting defeat.

Democrat Senator Jim Webb responded to President Bush’s State of the Union speech by calling for “an immediate shift toward strong regionally-based diplomacy”. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out that Webb and the Democrats want to negotiate with Iran and Syria to solve a problem they refuse to address themselves in Iraq. The Democrats made this proposal yesterday despite the fact that Syria and Iran met right before Webb’s response where the leader of Iran proclaimed that the U.S. will soon die.

If the Democrats’ new way forward sounds like the same old way of flip flopping you would be correct. This is what happens when a group of people dedicate themselves to being an opposition party at all costs. They throw common sense and allegiance to the United States out the window for the bigger goal of furthering their own selfish power grab.

But this idiocy doesn’t just stop with liberal Democrats. The Republicans in Congress fare no better when it comes to two faced commitment. They have conjured up a world where immigration reform means visiting the old amnesty program that failed this country about twenty years ago, border security means a fence without fencing, fiscal conservatism is just a logo on another spending bill and fighting a war on terror means doing just enough not to lose but never enough to really win.

What a great national tragedy this has all become. The United States Congress is a laughing stock, a mockery of intelligence where fat cat politicians get richer and American’s are suckered into giving them more power every day. Not one person in Congress has shown me that they have the integrity and fortitude to do what is right for America.

This is the real State of the Union. What a sad statement for the best country in the world. I hope these guys aren’t around when my kids grow up.

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