Pelosi Hails Not Having a Plan

[ylexot]

Well, here's the real title for the article...
Pelosi Hails Democrats' Diverse War Stances

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.

Translation: Our plans are so bad that we can't even convince each other that any of them are good.

Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq. There is consensus within the party that President Bush has mismanaged the war and that a new course is needed, but House Democrats should be free to take individual positions, she sad.

Translation: We don't know what the right course is, but we are sure that Bush's course is the wrong one. After all, it came from the most hated man in France...George W. Bush! Need we say more?

"There is no one Democratic voice . . . and there is no one Democratic position," Pelosi said in an interview with Washington Post reporters and editors.

Translation: Despite our best efforts, things in Iraq are going well and we're out of ideas...DAMN YOU GWB!

Pelosi said Democrats scored significant victories recently, the biggest coming on Social Security, on which she said Democratic opposition to Bush's proposed private or personal accounts blocked any hopes the White House had for changing the government retirement insurance program this year.

"Not only did we take him down on that, but we took down a lot of his credibility as being somebody who cared about 'people like me,' " she said.

Hey Nancy, nobody ever believed that GWB cared about people like you.

 

[Vince]

Yeah, Bush mismanaged the war ( ), but the Dems can't come up with anything but not to be unified in a position or even come up with a position.

 

[Pete]

OMG what a trainwreck.

 

[Bruzilla]

I would agree with Pilosi that Bush has mismanaged the war, but the unspoken truth here is that the reason he mismanaged it was because he was too often trying to cater to the demands of Democrats. Dem demands forced him to take oil revenues off the table so we now have to pay for the war out of our pockets; they forced him to keep troop deployments to a minimum rather than using overwhelming force like his Dad did; and they forced him to worry more about civilian casualties than winning.

Pilosi's problem is that despite what the media is saying, there is a great deal of support for the war, so running against the was is a loser for them. But their's is the party of peace activists, so she has to placate them as well or risk alienating them.

Bush does need to start withdrawing our troops next year, but he should be pulling them out because they had utterly destroyed the insurgents' will to fight.

 

[willie]

I fail to understand how the Democratic Party is holding together with its present leadership.

 

[FromTexas]

I fail to understand how the Democratic Party is holding together with its present leadership.

What leadership? Dean? Pelosi? Kerry? Clinton? There isn't a single unifying leader anywhere. It is in shambles.