The Times They Are a-Changin' (how this week looks to the other side)

[undeterred]

The Times They Are a-Changin'

by Lynn Woolley
Posted Nov 13, 2006

Let there be no doubt and no spin. The takeover of the House of Representatives and Senate is a solid repudiation of President Bush’s policy in Iraq. It’s not that the American people don’t want to win in Iraq—it’s that they want to win NOW!

Democrats, led by Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D.-Ill.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.), tapped into that impatience, and ran on the platform of “change.” Just what that change may be, they wouldn’t say, except that they want to begin troop withdrawals from Iraq as soon as possible. It’s entirely possible that we’ll simply “redeploy” as Rep. John Murtha (D.-Pa.) has suggested—the old strategy of “declare victory and leave.”

This, of course, would plunge Iraq into a full-scale civil war and might conceivably create a major staging area for terrorists there. But, hey! That’s change!

On the spending front, Democrats were able to tap into conservative disgust over the big-spending habits of Republicans. This turned into one of those political anomalies that occur in strange election cycles like this one: The party of fiscal conservatism was spending itself silly and so smaller government advocates kicked them out. And installed Democrats—the party of Big Government.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18011

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Yikes! Tancredo? Duncan Hunter?

These people are c-r-a-z-y...

[undeterred]

2. Republicans are suddenly the desperate ones.

Enjoy!

[immerlinks]

3. Looks like they don't do any drug testing at humanevents.com

because somebody is obviously smoking crack.

Hello. If we hadn't stirred up a hornet's nest in the Middle East in first place by being so overwhelmingly pro-Israeli in the first place and then by bombing and invading their countries there wouldn't be any wars there.

We need to pull all of our troops out of the region and treat the Palestinians equitably and maybe we can change the way we're seen in the Middle East.

[mom cat]

4. But then how would the war profiteers

continue to make a killing? :sarcasm:

[TheBaldyMan]

5. "might conceivably create a major staging area for terrorists" in Iraq !

shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted don't you think.

The art of sophistry is thriving at humanevents.com

[undeterred]

6. Its a very conservative site

I get a kick out of reading it once in a while!

[TheBaldyMan]

7. rather you than me, I can't abide FR or any other RW sites

their bile and looking glass logic repulses me.