Owning the Problem
by Patrick Ruffini :: January 3rd, 2007 10:46 amThe President has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal on the new Congress.
Last fall, the Democrats campaigned up and down the country on the Republican Congress’s complicity with the Administration on Iraq. Now, they too share a measure of power and responsibility. Starting tomorrow, they can’t pin on 100% of the blame on someone else for everything that goes wrong. To the extent that having power gets them to focus on the real requirements of defending a nation at war, that could be a good thing for the country in the long term.
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Great to see you back. I live in the state of Massachusetts and you will be surprised how long the democrats can blame the republicans and Bush, never offer an alternative, and run for the office of the president of the U.S. without acknowledging terrorism…watch and see!
Patrick,
Welcome back! You were especially missed during the mid-terms.
Benvenuto de nuovo! Ít´s good to have you back. We have a lot of work to do between now and 2008. We´ve have to take back control of congress with Republicans who will practice fiscal responsibility, not just talk about it. We have to keep the White HOuse. I heard a sound bite from John Edwards and he´s talking about raising taxes! Typical Democrat!
Welcome back and good luck!
I think that the Iraq War is firmly embedded in the public’s mind as “Bush’s War”! Unless the Democrats cut off funding, they will still have a good argument in 2008 that Bush started it, he fought it and it’s a disaster because he did not properly execute it! That is why Cindy Sheehan’s efforts to shame the Democrati majority into defunding the war will not succeed. It is not that the Democrats will see the light re national security. Rather, it will be their own interest in their future political survival, and the need to keep the war pinned on the Republicans. Were the Democrats to defund the effort in Iraq, they would be handing the Republicans the opportunity to claim that the situation prevailing in Iraq in 2008 was the result of the Democrats’ cutting off support for our forces and Iraq’s fledgling government, and if the Democrats had only supported Bush…had only let him fulfill his responsibilities as C-in-C… the result of the Iraq War effort would have been far more favorable to the US!
WELCOME BACK!
Regards
Tony