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September 12, 2006

Because We Trusted Bush... Yeah, That's the Ticket!

Hatched by Dafydd

The story that Democrats are attacking President Bush over his magnificent, almost Churchillian speech last night is already being adequately covered by many other excellent bloggers. Oh, and also by those guys in the elite media, if anybody still reads them (besides us excellent bloggers, I mean). But I think we've found just a tiny hook that has not yet been exploited. (I was going to say "just a tiny nipple that has not yet been sucked," but I thought that unduly vivid.)

Check out this line from the Reuters story:

Top Democrats on Tuesday accused President George W. Bush of exploiting the September 11 anniversary to boost his faltering Iraq war policy and his party's sagging popularity in an election year. [Good, good -- squeezed two Democratic memes into the very first sentence!]

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California said Bush should have tried to recapture a spirit of national unity in a televised Oval Office address on Monday night.

Reid told reporters Democrats had been so confident the Republican Bush would be nonpartisan that they had not sought equal time on television to offer their party's response.

Uh...

Say what?

Reid told reporters Democrats had been so confident the Republican Bush would be nonpartisan that they had not sought equal time on television to offer their party's response.

...Is it just me? Or does this sound roughly like Danish King Hrothgar saying "I was so confident that Grendel wouldn't come back and slaughter my warriors sixty-five times in a row, that I didn't bother posting any guards around Heorot last night."

(What do you mean, "what the hell are you talking about, Dafydd?" Couldn't you guys manage to stay awake during your high school English Lit classes?)

Considering that the primary meme of the Democrats is that Bush is all politics and no policy, what do you think are the odds that anybody in the DNC thought "the Republican Bush would be nonpartisan" in his prime-time speech on September 11th?

Of course, in reality, he was nonpartisan; he never even mentioned the Democrats (which is probably what really torqued them off). But this is a question of perception: if the Democrats think of Bush as the ultimate political-party animal (tomorrow, Bill Clinton sues for trademark infringement), then how risible is it for Sen. Harry Reid (D-Mirage Hotel and Casino, 100%) to claim it never occurred to them that he would be political?

(Friend Lee reminds me that Charles Krauthammer, in the commentary after that speech on Fox News Channel, correctly distinguished between a speech being political -- which it must be, if it's to talk at all about policy -- and the same speech being partisan, which requires not merely saying "this is my policy" but also "and here's the stupid policy of my opponent.")

So what's the real reason the Democrats didn't ask for equal time -- which I noticed and wondered about myself? Simple: for all the wrangling going on in the GOP these days over immigration, troops levels, and such, it's the Democrats who are in complete policy disarray. Look at their pathetic “Real Security Act of 2006,” where all they could get their caucus to agree on were three bland, vague platitudes -- and that Don Rumsfeld should be canned!

That's it; that's their entire defense + anti-terrorism plan for the looming November elections.

They didn't request equal-response time because they had no idea what they were going to say. An insider who must remain anonymous, but who was privy to the hastily arranged response conference, and who has secretly informed Big Lizards, reports the following minutes from yesterday afternoon:

3:08 PM EDT: Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi gaveled the response conf. to order, after a brief struggle with Minority Leader Harry Reid over who controls the gavel, which Rep. Pelosi won by repeatedly kicking Sen. Reid in the chest.

Rep. Pelosi: Shut up. Shut up you in the back, whoever you are. And stop clutching your chest like you're having a cardiac arrest. I took off my shoes before kicking you.

Now we all agree that Bush is essentially Hitler in all important points. But we can't say that. No, I will not recognize you, Russ; trust me, we can't say that. You shut up too, Bernie. We can't say that yet, so what do we say?

8:58 PM EDT: Meeting adjourned following five hours and fifty minutes of discussion; the 87 motions made were all tabled until next week by general consensus. Sen. Reid returned from Bethesda Naval Hospital just seconds before Rep. Pelosi banged the gavel down. No cause-effect should be inferred from the time relation between those two events.

See? No matter how long the media chickens have pecked at the story, there are always a few grains left to digest. I'm sorry, was that too vivid as well?

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, September 12, 2006, at the time of 6:18 PM

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The following hissed in response by: Bill Faith

Excerpted and linked at Old War Dogs >> Bill's Bites -- 2006.09.13.

The above hissed in response by: Bill Faith at September 12, 2006 10:59 PM

The following hissed in response by: CroolWurld

Hrothgar ought to be impeached for allowing this to happen in our high-built hall. If Hrothgar would have listened to Grendel's dams quite reasonable demands regarding lights-out and no carousing after 2 am, and the sacrifice of a few dozen children per annum, all of this carnage could have been avoided.

The above hissed in response by: CroolWurld at September 13, 2006 7:02 AM

The following hissed in response by: Rovin

While the Dems did not get their chance to respond to the Presidents well-written sumation of where we are in this GWOT, and while the Dems forement that the war in Iraq has nothing in common with this GWOT, (even though OBL says Iraq is the central/critical battle), this Pelosi-Reid "commitee" (pronounced comedy) continues.

See? No matter how long the media chickens have pecked at the story, there are always a few grains left to digest. I'm sorry, was that too vivid as well?

The press conference with Snow and the WH corps yesterday morn was a delite. Gregory was in his classic (biased) mode, as was most of the media-elite. If only we could re-clone the media chickens to eat their young.

Pass the Bromo-seltzer please :)

The above hissed in response by: Rovin at September 13, 2006 7:35 AM

The following hissed in response by: Big D

Slept during English lit? You wound me sir!

You should read "Grendel" sometime - Beowulf from the monster's point of view. "How, if I know all this, you may ask, could I hound him--shatter him again and again, drive him deeper and deeper into woe? I have no answer, except perhaps this: why should I not?"

Actually I think they had a complete, well-thought out Iraq and anti-terrorism plan of their own...then they realized that it identical to Bush's plan.

It's hard when "Hitler" steals all your best ideas.

The above hissed in response by: Big D at September 13, 2006 9:26 AM

The following hissed in response by: yetanotherjohn

If the democrats really thought that Bush was going to be non-partisan, shouldn;t they have wanted to schedule a rebuttal to, you know, join in the non-partisanness by also being there. Wouldn't their absence from Bush being non-partisan be sort of partisan.

And if they had just a slight hint that maybe Bush wouldn't be non-partisan, shouldn't they have scheduled a rebuttal to present the non-partisan view of the event and contrast their highminded non-partisanship, even though they were being nonpartisan with such an evil person as McChimpbushitler.

Is this what they consider to be a reasonable excuse? "We didn't seek sterner measures against Iran before they gave the nuke to the terrorists who blew the big hole in the US because we didn't think he would be non-bipartisan about this." Well thats all right then.

The above hissed in response by: yetanotherjohn at September 13, 2006 9:57 AM