I Think I’m Going Crazy
Am I the only one that sees this? Why won’t anyone else say it?! Why are we even arguing about the details! The issue at hand is that we’re not good enough! Which is why they’re trying to kill us!
I’m getting really fed up with all this petty squabbling, and with some Republicans jumping on the bandwagon, I’m starting to think we’re losing. Follow that link for Michelle Malkin’s transcript of Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday.
We’ve got Saddam in an air-conditioned cell awaiting trial, and he’s whining that he should have the trial in the Hague or Switzerland (he probably much prefers those nice European capitals to his own country), because those stupid Iraqis are too biased to give him a fair trial. The Italians hung Mussolini, and they turned out okay.
Senators Leahy and Hagel spent yesterday on the talk shows telling everyone that if only we were nicer to our enemies, if we closed Guantanamo like they want us to and stopped the interrogation completely (because you can’t get much nicer), then the Iraqis and the rest of the Middle East will be our friends. Yeah, well, we firebombed Dresden, killing between 25,000 - 140,000 people, and Germany turned out alright and into a close ally. We dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, they turned out so well they’re the world’s second largest economy and not only do they like us, they’re one of our best and richest (financially and culturally) friends. Dresden is a beautiful city. Hiroshima rebuilt. So did Nagasaki.
We pussy-footed around in Vietnam then pulled out before the job was done, and look how they turned out. And their neighbors, for that matter.
Who the hell could possibly believe that the nicer we are the better things will work out? How blind are these people?
And now Mel Martinez (R) thinks we should shut it down because it’s a source for bad stories. It’s a source for bad stories because the press are allowed there to write the stories! Rather than shutting it down, why don’t we kick the freaking press out?! Everywhere the press goes in the world we get bad press. When they stay here in the States we get bad press. Why do you think the economy keeps sputtering? In the last week, you may have noticed the daily and constant barrage of news and debate about the President’s approval rating being just 44%. Oh how the pundits gleefully used this story to point out every thing they think the president’s done wrong in the past thirty years (which was the point of the story, really, to bring all that up again). Some mentioned that Congress’ approval rating is 31%.
But no one bothered to point out that the Military has a 74% confidence rating and that the MSM has a 28% approval rating. So why are we supposed to give a rat’s ass what they think anyway?
June 13th, 2005 at 1:21 pm
Maybe it is just coincidence that Martinez is taking a position counter to the Bush Administration on Guantanamo, at about the same time that Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) spoke out against the FDA, and just a few weeks after seven Republican senators helped reach a compromise on Democratic filibusters of judicial nominees, going against Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN), who was threatening to end the two-century practice of filibusters at the behest of the administration.
Or maybe some Republicans sense that the Bush ship is sinking — and that they should look out for their own careers, and not the president’s agenda with blinders on.
Consider that the Republicans in “Group of 14″ include liberal Republicans Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and Olympia Snowe of Maine, as well as former (and possibly future) presidential candidate John McCain of Arizona, and possible 2008 candidates Mike DeWine of Ohio and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Oh sure, some of the above may be positioning themselves against Frist for the 2008 race. But when you factor in Martinez and Grassley, you have nine Republican senators, out of 55, who have taken a public stance against the administration in less than a month. When was the last time you can say that’s happened, since Bush entered office?
June 13th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
Well, no, you might be right, but my theory is this: Democrats tend to get into the news more easily than do republicans. Ted Kennedy, for instance, gets his speeches publicized, and it’s not like he’s done anything lately. Republicans, on the other hand, are guaranteed coverage if they look like they’re leaving the reservation, and for most of them it’s the only time they’re ever going to get their name out there other than when they’re running. So coming up on an election cycle, they splash around and get their name recognition up, because most people have such little idea about politics that they’ll vote for the guy they heard of.
June 13th, 2005 at 5:07 pm
Oh my ninme, you are so cynical!
hehe.
June 13th, 2005 at 7:27 pm
Hey, I speak the truth.
And yeah, aren’t I? I wallow in it, my cynicism.