Posted on 04/24/2007 4:16:34 PM PDT by Thebaddog
PRINCETON, New Jersey: There are two ways to describe the confrontation between the U.S. Congress and the Bush administration over funding for the Iraq surge. You can pretend that it's a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation, in which a beleaguered President George W. Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders - the troops - if his demands aren't met.
If this were a normal political dispute, Democrats in Congress would clearly hold the upper hand: By a huge margin, Americans say they want a timetable for withdrawal, and by a large margin they also say they trust Congress, not Bush, to do a better job handling the situation in Iraq.
But this isn't a normal political dispute. Bush isn't really trying to win the argument on the merits. He's just betting that the people outside the barricade care more than he does about the fate of those innocent bystanders.
What's at stake right now is the latest Iraq "supplemental." Since the beginning, the administration has refused to put funding for the war in its regular budgets. Instead, it keeps saying, in effect: "Whoops! Whaddya know, we're running out of money. Give us another $87 billion."
At one level, this is like the behavior of an irresponsible adolescent who repeatedly runs through his allowance, each time calling his parents to tell them he's broke and needs extra cash.
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It is a hostage situation.
The Democrats are holding the troops hostage to peanut farmers, spinach growers, and people still using Katrina as an excuse not get off the coach and get a job.
“Confronting Bush on Iraq has become a patriotic duty.” ~ Krugman
No words.
The Dhimmicrats have tried to orchestrate defeat in Iraq. They’ve been working diligently toward that end for 3+ years...and why? Payback for Clinton impeachment and Gore’s loss. They would sell America to gain access to the White House.
No Barf Alert?
is it just me or are the Clintons totally in control of the media message now?
All the news is about enemies of theirs...Cheney, Barak, Thompson, Gonzales, McCain....
Hillary is having a full on panic attack, she’s got the watch dogs slathering and drooling.
BOR will be next, he went after Soros last night.
“By a huge margin, Americans say they want a timetable for withdrawal, and by a large margin they also say they trust Congress, not Bush, to do a better job handling the situation in Iraq.”
Somebody got into the mushrooms again. Uh, dude? Americans have said no such thing, and Congress has lower approval ratings than Bush.
Pull your head out of your posterior and stop reading Huff Po, DU and Kos.
This stupid bastid has the whole thing Bass ackwards.
Probably most here are familiar with Krugman and his place in the left, so IMO no alert of that kind is needed.
fair ‘nuff; caught me off guard though
Worse yet, there isn't a democrat hack that wouldn't pimp out her/his own mother for a vote.
What vomitous spin. Bush wants the troops funded no strings attached and its his fault the Dems. refuse to fund them without playing political games. So the way in which the president has sought out funding is the issue, not a hyper-partisan Democratic party out to use national security as a wedge issue. The fool who wrote this is right out of Orwell.
It figures.
Where’s the “barf alert”?
You are recklessly assuming that they have mothers.
;-)
It is amazing how the author can be so perfectly wrong.
Krugman assumes that Bush has zero support from the military and citizens.
Kool-aid psychosis is tough to deal with.
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