The White House knew weeks ago it had to ramp up its political campaign in support of the Iraq war. (WSJ) Though Rumsfeld was coy – “I don’t do politics” – his political blade was razor sharp last week. Together with Rove, the house politico, Rumsfeld set the table perfectly for Bush 43’s Iraq speech Tuesday. In a rough week of rhetoric, testimony and high-gloss political show biz, Rove and Rumsfeld opened up a can of whoop-ass on the D's and demonstrated last week why it is Bush 43's R's the people can trust with national security, not the D’s.
The D-agenda has been taken over by the Deaniacs, Soros’ one-worlders, and ranters of moveon.org. Check out 1) Kennedy’s over-the-top rhetoric (here, here, here) on Thursday (quagmire, failure, exit strategy); 2) the Codel’s visit proving the bankruptcy of the D-rhetoric on Gitmo (Powerline, AP, LGF); and 3) the coordinated high-gloss but completely transparent press agentry Sunday afternoon (here, here, here) to tout a Soros’ financed law school attack by Human Rights Watch, ACLU and the other Lesson 18 enablers. It was as if Rove had made his political judo punch Tuesday knowing that Soros' lawyers and their lefty enablers had in mind for Sunday's news shows and Monday newspapers! (NRO) Do these guys think this stuff works?
In contrast to this, read Rumsfeld’s testimony (2) Thursday and his various statements following and on the chat shows Sunday (here, here, here, here, BG). Read what Rove in fact said Tuesday at the Conservative party dinner in New York, and some analysis. (WP, here, here, here, here, here, Powerline, PL2, OJ). Despite complaints of low blows, Rove's hot button political attack Tuesday was accurate. Do the D’s think the people can’t hear, read and think for themselves? (WS, WSJ).
Overseas, of course, the dynamics of the battlefield prove that the tenacity of the new legitimate Iraqi government, backed by lethal power of US arms, is having an effect. Some non-suicidal Sunni hard-cases are trying to cry uncle. (Here, here, here). Good. No person who wants to win wants to talk about when the US might leave Iraq. You know, as far as the killers are concerned, they need to know we will stay until they are dead or gone. (And as far as Quillnews can tell, the Iraqis and the region's emerging democrats will want the US to stay there for years and years. (BG) Think Germany, South Korea).
To bring all this back into greater perspective, what do the D’s think the US, EU and civilized world should do now that Iran’s mullah-fashioned election has produced a hard edged Islamist to be the “elected” leader? (WSJ, BBC) This guy can’t keep his story straight about whether he wants to confront or get along with the west. (Update: He's also apparently a mean and brutal kidnapper.) His people want freedom. (IHT). But he does want nukes. He is also an acolyte of Ali Khamenei, the self-selected cleric who holds Iran’s people in his bloody grip and who bankrolls Hezbollah and jihidist killers. (IHT, here, here, here, here, here).
With the Iran election over, do the EU and the D’s recommend we protect the “human rights” of the killers now building nuclear weapons in Tehran? (IHT) Or do the American people believe that the war against extremism is only just beginning? Hmmm. (QN)
Occasionally a series of public events unfold that demonstrate perfectly why the US has relied on “fractional” politics to operate its democracy since the days of Hamilton & Jefferson & Adams. Despite Quillnews' complaints about the bias in the contemporary media environment, there can still be a rough justice of politics in today’s Media-ville after all. Political parties – today’s fractions – and their component parts of advocates (free traders, fundamentalists, liberals, conservatives, progressives, socialists, libertarians, et al) are in a constant state of flux. America’s two great political brands – Democrats and Republicans – fight over who can assemble enough component parts to get 50+1 in each election. The last master to get to 50+1 for the D’s was Bill Clinton. Based on the performance of the D’s last week, he will be the last for a while. I’m not a partisan, either; just a live-and-let-live type guy. But my view is simple: my country is at war against violent extremists and we can not rest until they are dead or otherwise destroyed. In today’s world, Americans may ask D’s to make peace, increase government subsidies, accommodate, make nice. But when the safety and security of the American people are concerned the Bush 43 crew gets to 50+1 in a New York minute.
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