What A DC Media TypeThinks of the House Iraq Supplemental
Posted on Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 01:31:10 PM EST
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You know what I think about the House Dem Leadership's Iraq supplemental funding bill. But what do I know? I am just a citizen who has thought it through for months, looking at facts, language and history. Why not listen to a DC Beltway Media type. They know how things really work right? so let's see what Tom Edsall has to say:
The Democratic leadership . . . has busied itself behind closed doors, producing a toothless, loophole-ridden resolution that showcases the party’s generic antiwar stance while trying to establish troop readiness requirements, benchmarks for Iraqi progress and withdrawal timetables. The resolution — more precisely, a set of deals intended to paper over intraparty factions — is the result of a process better suited to a highway bill than national security. This patchwork proposal . . . risks setting the Democrats up for a poisonous share of responsibility for the failure of United States foreign policy, while amplifying questions regarding Democratic competence on military matters.
Hmmmm. That does not sound good. So what is the political reason for this bill again?
Now I think Edsall is full of crap generally and specifically on this. But the play here, we are told, is "messaging." In what way is Edsall wrong on the messaging of this horrible bill?
There is nothing good about this bill on ANY level.
It is bad bad bad all aorund. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a huge blunder when he tried to push a nonbinding resolution against escalation. Like Pelosi he tried to accomodate Blue Dogs and Republicans. It failed miserably.
But Reid has learned from his mistakes. Pelosi seem determined to repeat them. With possibly permanent political and policy damage on Iraq.
She must be saved from herself.
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