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| Posted by: Angry Conservative |
7/18/2007 8:37 AM |
The Democrats are running both the house and the senate, and they are not learning from the Republican mistakes. Their recent showboating led by Harry Reid, trying to twist senate rules into a fillabuster (the minority party has the right to request a 60 vote passage, but Reid feels that's a fillabuster for some reason, looks like someone needs to go back to political college), plans for unchecked spending, and misinterpreting America's displeasure with the war in Iraq to mean complete withdrawal and surrender is leading to the lowest approval ratings in history!
"An even bigger majority, 83 percent, say the Democratic-controlled Congress is
doing only a fair or poor job -- the worst mark for Congress in a Zogby poll."
Reuters reports on a Zogby poll that shows the lowest mark ever for Congress. I'm going to try to lay out a few reasons why.
Democrats love to Tax and Spend
One of the reasons the Republicans were booted out of office last year was not because the Democrats had so much more to offer, it's because the Republicans themselves were not following their own principles. They were spending like crazy, and this caused a lot of voters to simply stay home. Democrats now in power or planning on spending even more and people don't like this.
One of the latest earmarks from a Democrat is a million dollars for a non-exists institution. The Politico reports on John Murtha's earmark and this is one of many reasons why people are not liking the current political climate (talk about a needed climate change). Couuple this with their desire to do away with Bush's tax cuts, and that's a recipe for disaster.
Lack of Plan in Iraq
The Dems keep misinterpreting the results of the election as "the American people wanting a change in Iraq and us pulling out". What blows my mind is WE HAVE CHANGED! Iraq policy has changed from doing nothing under Rumsfield, hoping that a diplomatic solution will suddenly appear, to actually killing al Qaida! This troop surge is working so well that the so-called Sunni insurgents are allying with Americans to kill terrorists. This month finally the surge is complete, all the extra troops are in place in Iraq and they can really start the job, but does any of this matter to the Democrats?
I posted a while ago about the pains of being General George Petraus. They vote him in unanimously, tell him they will support him, and before the troop surge has even begun, they want to call it a failure and pull all troops out. Listen to me now and hear me later, Americans do not want to pull out of Iraq!
I'm not the only one shouting this. The L.A. Times thinks pulling out of Iraq is a bad idea. They had many articles today explaining that without the proper planning, pulling out of Iraq will be worse then how we pulled out of Vietnam and left millions to die from Ho Chi Man and Poll Pot. In an article entitled "Pullout proposal lacking a Plan B" Noam N. Levey of the L.A. Times explains that much violence will ensue if we pull out now. I love this quote:
"Senate Democrats' "New Direction" agenda, in which the party touts its goals,
does not address the issue of a post-withdrawal Iraq, noting only that "Senate
Democrats remain committed … to bring the war to a successful and responsible
end.""
Somehow leaving Iraqis to a lot of violence and blood shed is a "successful and responsible end". Heck, even the new Security General of the U.N. has warned that an early pull out is bad. I swear if I hear "new direction" or "it's time for a change" one more time, I'm going to punch someone.
Ignoring Success in Iraq
All this grand-standing is ignoring any kind of success in Iraq. Today, U.S. Forces captured Abu Shahid, the highest ranking Iraqi in al-Qaida in Iraq! This with many other successes in Iraq are being ignored by both the Democratic led governments and the media (who is focusing on the showboating from the Dems). AP reports the details and importance of this capture. If we hadn't surged the troops, this would have never happened.
Troops are reenlisting in record numbers, even now, when Dems claim that Trrops are wasting their time and should be brought home. The Christian Science Monitor reports:
"The design of the all- volunteer force [after Vietnam] was to make this kind of
[open-ended] commitment difficult," says Thomas Donnelly, a military expert at
the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "But there have been some
extraordinary levels of motivation going on, in terms of serving the country in
a time of crisis."
The "open-ended commitment" would be difficult, if the cause was unjust, and if the soldiers themselves didn't feel like they were doing good. But instead, they are reenlisting in droves! They see first hand the good they are doing and want this trend to continue.
End of Democrats is near
The Democrats are ignoring the failure of the Republicans. Lose sight of core American values and you will lose your control of the government. I guess I shouldn't be complaining, since Republicans are far closer to conservative values then Democrats. Keep up the good work Dems!
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