Surge Protector
Showdown Looms...
This really seems great, I mean the firing of the US Attorneys, the congress making a stink, and Bush refusing to submit his personnel to subpoenas. What I most want is a distraction from Iraq so that the surge has a chance to succeed. This may be it.
This is the first attack that's a direct attack on the president. No WMD, no Abu Graihb, no Gitmo, no 16 words or Plame or Libby... all these were peripherals, damaging Bush only by the constant reference to his ultimate responsibility. But this is a direct assualt on the Presidency. No confusion of dual responsibility of congress or agencies or the military, no intanglements with forgien governments, just a direct attack on the perogatives of the office of the President of the United States. Attacked by Democrats. Great. It can't get any better than that.
I just can't see a downside. The prerogatives of the President are constitutional and clear, there seems noting behind the firings that the public could possibly care about, the conservatives are still wrought at the way Libby was perjury trapped, and the only real act of the president will be to see that it doesn't happen again.
I think in this case all Bush has got to do is decide to fight and his natural allies will flock to his defense. Too much is too much. There isn't any conservative who doesn't hate the Democrats and MSM. I would imagine they would be raring for a fight, and this is one that's clean and open and where the outcome is purely theirs to effect; no inconstant Shiia, no violent Sunni, no dying, rotting France, just patriots fighting to protect their President from Democrats. You can't get a better fight than this.
I suspect too, that Bush is ready for a fight. It's got to be hard to be nice guy nice guy nice guy and constantly be called a liar. Here there is no subsidiary issue, nothing can be lost by being nasty, in fact the intent is to be nasty and destroy the enemy. That moral simplicity --I should say, issue simplicity-- has got to be fun.
So let'er rip. Maybe I'll try to get in a few whacks myself. Nothin's funner than knocking down a Democrat and stomping on him.
But two points:
--the intent of the fight has to be to obscure the surge so that it has a chance to succeed;
--and the fight has to be posited as the congress against the president. If it can be poised that way the people will rally to the president, because the president is their country, while the congress is Chucky Schummer and Nancy Pelosi.
If Bush leads his troops follow. The only problem might be to win too soon.
This really seems great, I mean the firing of the US Attorneys, the congress making a stink, and Bush refusing to submit his personnel to subpoenas. What I most want is a distraction from Iraq so that the surge has a chance to succeed. This may be it.
This is the first attack that's a direct attack on the president. No WMD, no Abu Graihb, no Gitmo, no 16 words or Plame or Libby... all these were peripherals, damaging Bush only by the constant reference to his ultimate responsibility. But this is a direct assualt on the Presidency. No confusion of dual responsibility of congress or agencies or the military, no intanglements with forgien governments, just a direct attack on the perogatives of the office of the President of the United States. Attacked by Democrats. Great. It can't get any better than that.
I just can't see a downside. The prerogatives of the President are constitutional and clear, there seems noting behind the firings that the public could possibly care about, the conservatives are still wrought at the way Libby was perjury trapped, and the only real act of the president will be to see that it doesn't happen again.
I think in this case all Bush has got to do is decide to fight and his natural allies will flock to his defense. Too much is too much. There isn't any conservative who doesn't hate the Democrats and MSM. I would imagine they would be raring for a fight, and this is one that's clean and open and where the outcome is purely theirs to effect; no inconstant Shiia, no violent Sunni, no dying, rotting France, just patriots fighting to protect their President from Democrats. You can't get a better fight than this.
I suspect too, that Bush is ready for a fight. It's got to be hard to be nice guy nice guy nice guy and constantly be called a liar. Here there is no subsidiary issue, nothing can be lost by being nasty, in fact the intent is to be nasty and destroy the enemy. That moral simplicity --I should say, issue simplicity-- has got to be fun.
So let'er rip. Maybe I'll try to get in a few whacks myself. Nothin's funner than knocking down a Democrat and stomping on him.
But two points:
--the intent of the fight has to be to obscure the surge so that it has a chance to succeed;
--and the fight has to be posited as the congress against the president. If it can be poised that way the people will rally to the president, because the president is their country, while the congress is Chucky Schummer and Nancy Pelosi.
If Bush leads his troops follow. The only problem might be to win too soon.
posted by mouse at 11:20 PM
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