Democrats To Take Action By Scolding The President
The do-nothing Democrats in Congress are at it again. This time, they are going to develop a proposal that “would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.” You know what would really cause him to acknowledge it? De-fund that sucker. But yet again they are going about this in a completely meaningless way. Sadly, there seems to be a pattern of this with the Democrats since the last election.
I wrote about this subject earlier, but this keeps happening. I assume part of it has to do with the fear of being perceived as not “for the troops,” but I think pure political manipulation is being done here. As long as they continue to debate meaningless anti-war bills that simply reprimand the president and neglect to take any strong action, they can throw the blunders of the war back on the president in the 2008 election.
This tactic, if it is what they are using, is flawed in many ways. First of all, it operates under the pretext that this is the president’s war. It is not. The minute Congress decided to grant Bush the power to declare war, they forfeited their right to wash their hands clean of any wrong doing in the war. It is their responsibility as well.
And to make matters worse, the American voters have given them the power to fix this, yet they refuse to do so. The American public didn’t vote for the Democrats in the hope that they would simply reprimand the president. They voted because they wanted change. It would be nice if we got a little of that.
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