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August 17, 2007

Democrat Crowing Causes Sun to Rise

Hatched by Dafydd

This is really a hoot, a tempest in a teabag. Somehow, some media maven started a rumor that when Gen. David Petraeus arrives in mid-September, he won't give any public report on Iraq; in fact, he won't even talk to Congress.

The rumor continues that his report will be ghost-written by White House aides, who are too terrified that Petraeus (Bush's puppet) will accidentally spill the beans that the war is actually catastrophically lost... if those brilliant inquisitors of the majority (yes, I mean you, Pat Leahy, D-VT, 95%!) ask a few inconvenient questions.

Aye, Petraeus may have shown some guts standing up to IEDs and EFPs in Iraq; but he will quail at the sight of Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid (D-Caesar's Palace, 90%) and Squeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 95%). Ergo, Bush will stuff him in the attic and send the Casa Blanca mouthpiece out to mislead the public and obstruct Congress again:

The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday suggested in a story that it wasn't clear yet whether Petraeus would testify in open session, and Thursday, The Washington Post reported that the White House proposed limiting Petraeus and Crocker's testimony to a closed session.

On Thursday, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe adamantly denied those reports.

"Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will testify to the Congress in both open as well as closed sessions prior to the Sept. 15 report. That has always been our intention," Johndroe said, speaking to reporters at President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where the president is vacationing [by "vacationing," they of course mean "working in the branch office;" Bush doesn't lounge in a hammock reading a mystery novel, any more than Clinton did when he went to Camp David or Reagan did when he shifted locale to the Santa Barbara Ranch. See here now!].

"And I think it's unfortunate that anyone would suggest that (Petraeus and Crocker) would not do that, trying to start a fight where there really isn't one, because this has always been plan, and in fact, it's even called for in the legislation," Johndroe added.

When a reporter followed up at the ranch with a question about the White House possibly arranging for a closed session, Johndroe said: "No, no." And asked if he was denouncing the Post's story, Johndroe said: "Yes. Although I don’t -- I won't use that term that you used. I just don't think it's correct."

And guess who believes this bizarre, unsourced rumor, swallowing the testimony of anonymous "administration officials" over the official word from a named presidential spokesman? You guessed right: Sen. Reid is already caterwauling about the nerve of Bush to diss the Pinky by hiding Petraeus from Congress:

But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid didn’t buy the administration's protests and said it would be "unacceptable" if Petraeus and Crocker didn't appear in public.

"The White House's effort to prevent Gen. Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker from testifying openly and candidly before Congress about the situation in Iraq is unacceptable," Reid said in a prepared statement.

"Not only does it contradict the law President Bush himself signed in May, but it appears to be yet another politically driven attempt to avoid giving Congress and the American people an honest and open assessment of a war we can all see is headed in the wrong direction," Reid said.

Mind, there has never been a single shred of evidence that Petraeus won't appear... other than speculation by several over-heated members of the feverish, drive-by media, driven mad by having to stick it in D.C. during August, while everyone who's anyone has gotten out.

"I bet Petraeus won't take questions."

"Ya know, I bet he won't even appear! That coward."

"That louse! Bush won't let him appear."

"Haliburton!"

"Yeah, I bet he's too afraid of what Petraeus might say... and if he does appear and take questions, he'll just give us a Tony Snow job, claiming that al-Qaeda is on the run in Iraq, attacks are down, and deaths are down."

"Al-Qaeda? There is no al-Qaeda in Iraq. In fact, there's no al-Qaeda at all. You know, that's the first time fire ever melted --"

"When we all know the war is headed in the wrong direction -- it's getting worse every day! It's already a full blown civil war, tens of thousands of dead American soldiers, millions of slaughtered Iraqis, all to put billions of dollars into Bush's pocket."

"He's stolen his last peso!"

"Haliburton!"

And of course when September 15th rolls around, and Petraeus comes in as planned and testifies publicly and privately before the D.C. dons, Reid and Leahy and all the little squeakers will take credit: "Were it not for our cries of outrage, the Regime would never have let Bush's lickspittle Petraeus out in public!"

Yeah. And if I weren't constantly clacking these rocks together, Los Angeles would be infested with tigers.

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, August 17, 2007, at the time of 4:46 AM

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Comments

The following hissed in response by: howardhughes

Dafydd has hatched the goods on one of the Dems favorite voter tricks. Let's call it the "Henny-Penny Symphony". It's in the top 5 of their playbook. It's an escalation of the "Make A Lot Of Noise About Nothing" ditty and used when prolonged media messages are necessary to fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time.

The above hissed in response by: howardhughes at August 17, 2007 5:20 AM

The following hissed in response by: Patrick Chester

Are you implying that my starting my computer everyday is not what's keeping polar bears from overrunning Houston? ;-)

The above hissed in response by: Patrick Chester at August 17, 2007 8:07 AM

The following hissed in response by: David M

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The above hissed in response by: David M at August 17, 2007 8:08 AM

The following hissed in response by: Big D

BWWWA Haaa haaa! Your are in fine form.

"...an honest and open assessment of a war we can all see is headed in the wrong direction." That has to be the amoungst supidest things I've ever heard a politician say. But of course, the Dems will be open and honest about listening to Petraeus, right?

The above hissed in response by: Big D at August 17, 2007 8:56 AM

The following hissed in response by: Da Coyote

General P could 1) crash in a helicopter and 2) have a prefrontal lobotomy and still have an IQ greater than the sum of the dhimmicrat senate and house. You've gotta love the stupidity of our majority party. It just cannot get any better, can it?

The above hissed in response by: Da Coyote at August 17, 2007 9:01 AM

The following hissed in response by: Rovin

Matthews was all over this on yesterdays Hardball with Paul Hackett and Mark Williams. Williams blasted the dems and media spin while Hackett actually said both sides should wait for an honest report from the General. The video is priceless and (so far) still available thru the MSNBC/Hardball site. You can't copy the link without "clipboard tracking".

The left will be framing this report to fit their own agenda. And the spin will make us all dizzy.

The above hissed in response by: Rovin at August 17, 2007 9:07 AM

The following hissed in response by: Tony B

Still wearing the garlic around my neck... and still no vampires have attacked me.

The above hissed in response by: Tony B at August 17, 2007 1:09 PM

The following hissed in response by: Bill M

Yeah. And if I weren't constantly clacking these rocks together, Los Angeles would be infested with tigers.

Clack 'em a little louder. We could use the help up here in Seattle.

"...an honest and open assessment of a war we can all see is headed in the wrong direction." Reid said.

Oxymoron alert!!!!!!!!! Or is that Moron alert?

Now really, 10,000 comedians out of work and the Senate is saddled with Harry Reid!?! He's gotta be trying out his act for Vegas, right?

What a doofus.

The above hissed in response by: Bill M at August 17, 2007 1:31 PM

The following hissed in response by: Terrye

These people are unbelievable. A bunch of old women in the nursing home during a full moon could not do a better job of getting themselves worked up.

The above hissed in response by: Terrye at August 17, 2007 1:57 PM

The following hissed in response by: cdquarles

The really funny part in this dhimmi kerfuffle is that the law that requires this report doesn't require Gen. Petraeus to write or present it. It requires the President to do so.

The above hissed in response by: cdquarles at August 18, 2007 10:09 PM