I don't know where you were in November, but our president led us into an electoral butt-kicking. We're lucky that we spent the last six years gerrymandering the hell out of our districts or we'd be down 50-60 seats instead of 30. When this sort of defeat happens, you have to expect that the Rockefeller Republicans are going to jump ship and play nice with the new majority to keep their jobs.
Keeping party unity is a bit like running the Mob: You've got it only so long as you're profitable. The minute that you stop being profitable, your agenda sleeps with the fishes.
This group of Dem and RINO idiots needs to go, and I suspect several of them will go by way of becoming among the unelected, others will go out of the capital feet first in a box, in discredited infamy.
Well, the president is currently betting the future of the party on 21,500 fresh troops and one good general. Grasping at straws to put it mildly. Gen. Petraeus seems like the kind of man who might be able to pull a victory out of this mess, but many of his plans are contingent on the political will of the Iraqis. And if we've learned anything over the past few years it's that you can't trust the Iraqis to follow through with anything.
Indeed our president is NOT grasping at straws in terms of our nations future. There is more to politics than power. He is showing us the correct way, and if national politics gets in the way, many will pay, some with their political careers, and too many with their young lives. And we will only have gained an hiatus of one or two years, before our economy tanks ( and that of all Western nations which form our trading partners, Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Canada), and before large scale war becomes necessary, making the current one a lark by comparison.
Grasping at straws? No, our president, understanding the history of fascism, knows that we will have to fight Islamofascism sooner or later, and like the good man he is, he has opted for sooner.He is correct in his analysis. The Dems will eventually be faced with having to want a military victory over Islamofascism, and are essentially mistaken to end the current fight so they can establish a Democrat ring in which to continue this lethal boxing match.