Breaking: Pelosi won’t block surge funds
posted at 6:45 pm on January 18, 2007 by Allahpundit
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We all knew this was coming, and none more so than the people on her own side.
From a post on January 9th:
Ace wants the Democrats to do what he knows they can’t and mustn’t, namely, take a clear, committed position on the surge. They don’t want to support it or else they’ll antagonize the nuts, but they don’t want to oppose it either just in case Bush pulls a rabbit out of the hat in the next six months. So they’ll end up taking the Reid/Biden approach — there’s nothing we can do, our hands are tied, and here’s a non-binding resolution expressing our deepest misgivings about the surge plus a check granting you almost everything you’ve asked for just in case you end up winning.
There’s no political downside. If the surge fails, the left can say they showed faith in the troops by funding their mission and giving them a last chance to win. If it succeeds, they get credit for having underwritten victory. Everybody’s happy, just so long as you don’t think too hard about them willingly funding a war which they hate, which they deeply believe is harming America and getting U.S. soldiers killed needlessly, for the sake of their own political expedience.
Here’s Pelosi on “Face the Nation” 11 days ago. Take some aspirin before watching.
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Frankly Allah, I don’t care who gets credit or not. My concern is that we do what needs to be done to win. This allows for that possibility. I’m happy with it.
The Apologist on January 18, 2007 at 6:53 PM
There will be seething on Kos and DU tonight!
Enjoy the show.
aunursa on January 18, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Be interesting to see if Murtha has the gum-shun to Karry on the fight by himself.
bdfaith on January 18, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Hurry – someone post this at Democratic Underground – Pleeeeease
Candy Slice on January 18, 2007 at 7:05 PM
She just said her idea of how to win a war is to change the mission to something else “instead of combat”?
Resolute on January 18, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Here’s the DU thread.
rw on January 18, 2007 at 7:14 PM
Now listen up, little boy and girl Dems…… this is your leader speaking:
PinkyBigglesworth on January 18, 2007 at 7:20 PM
This makes Hagel and other RINOS look worse than jellyfish.
SouthernGent on January 18, 2007 at 7:34 PM
Now, somebody please. . . convince tht disgusting Hagel to become a Democrat, or an independent, or anything other than a Republican. i can’t beleive that the good people of Nebraska are keeping this bum in the senate.
rplat on January 18, 2007 at 7:40 PM
The downside is that handwringing isnt leadership.
Hopefully the American public can tell that.
William Amos on January 18, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Hillary has Crazy Eyes; this dingbat has Even Crazier Eyes
Drugs? Insanity? Decades of Accumulated Rage?
All of the above?
Janos Hunyadi on January 18, 2007 at 8:42 PM
Dems want it every which way but loose. they are for the war before they are against the war but don’t have a plan; for the surge before they are against the surge but won’t get in the way; for ethics reform before they give William Jefferson a standing ovation; for the minimum wage before they are against the minimum wage in Samoa then for it again; for maintaining tax cuts before they are for raising taxes on the rich (defined as anybody who pays taxes).
Answering Janos Hunyadi’s question: habitual lying. Living in the dark gives you those bulgy eyes, but you’re still blind.
cmay on January 18, 2007 at 9:52 PM
He was reelected in 2002 so he’ll have to prove to Nebraska if he’s red enough for this State which is Big Red in more ways than one.
To my knowledge, on most issues except the Iraq War and immigration he’s mostly conservative but immigration and the Iraq War are two very huge issues to me and I’ll definately be keeping an eye out for a more conservative candidate in ‘08.
Yakko77 on January 18, 2007 at 9:54 PM
Calling the war in Iraq “his war,” ie Pres Bush’s war, is unbelievable. I can’t figure out which worse, this or Biden’s “I want the President to know he is alone [on this surge].” These people are getting themselves waaaaay out on a dangerous limb. If “the surge” goes well, and public opinions comes back around, and these folks are going to have their stupid, petty, purely political resolution as a stone around their necks. And if the surge does go well, it will probably be pulling up the numbers for the war sometime in the spring of ‘08. They’ll question the timing, but they’ll have these comments, and this resolution to deal with in campaign ads. As Rush always points out, you’re in big trouble when what’s good news for your party is bad news for America. Sooner or later, history will judge these people so harshly, when the Pearl Harbor moment finally arrives (may it be more than a few mintues before it’s too late), this sh*t will be remembered.
smellthecoffee on January 18, 2007 at 10:52 PM
In the short term that’s probably true, but in the longer term it might not be so. On one hand, if the surge fails, the moonbat left (read: their base) will give them at least some of the blame for not taking action to stop the war when they had the chance. On the other hand, if the surge actually succeeds, they will be apoplectic and thus really, really angry at Pelosi and co. for failing to do anything to stop the war.
With this action (or inaction if you prefer), they have officially assumed part of the responsibility for what happens from this point forward, and thus the political consequences.
All that being said,
gets it right in the first comment of this thread.
thirteen28 on January 18, 2007 at 10:59 PM
What happened to “the people have spoken” in the November ‘06 elections and, therefore, things need to change with regard to the President’s Iraq policy – and that they would in the first 100 hours?
While at the gym today, the television there shows CNN and ESPN in the locker room. I happened to be there while Wolfie’s show, The Situation Room was on. He was interviewing Rangel, and asked him why the Dems weren’t doing anything about Iraq in their first 100 hours (especially since they ran on that issue prior to the elections). Rangel, of course, turned into his usual spin doctor self, and responded that there needed to be more questions asked and answered before they did anything on Iraq.
In other words, the Dems don’t have a plan for Iraq. They are hoping for complete utter failure so that they can continue to pound on Bush. This, they are hoping, will carry over to the ‘08 election, and they can get one of their own in the White House (and keep both houses).
DEM plan = hope and wish for complete disaster in Iraq. They don’t want anything to do with Iraq, they just wanted to be in power.
Rick on January 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM
Rick…..
Sending you two kegs, a case of ‘rinds’, and offering up my wife for a table dance.
The party of George McClellan lives! Copperheads….all of em.
Limerick on January 19, 2007 at 1:02 AM
“…carte blanche from the Republican Congress”, Nancy said.
“Carte blanche from the Democrat Congreass”, I replied.
“F–k them”, Markos Moulitsas was overheard.
“She’s a chicken”, Arianna Huffpoo said.
“They’re wussies, I knew it”, the president said.
“We want to be for the Soldiers, but against the war”, Rahm was mumbling to anyone he could get a hold of. “It worked in 2006, it’ll work again in 2008, and that’s the ultimate goal”.
Entelechy on January 19, 2007 at 1:42 AM
Ok, ok, that s/b “Democrat Congress” and was a typo and not, I repeat, NOT a Freudian slip.
Entelechy on January 19, 2007 at 1:44 AM
The Democrats in Congress are lying, corrupt whores, who sabotaged the war to regain political power.
Their followers are the DU-ers, who are drooling retards who have overdone the ligature masturbation thing and are suffering permanent hypoxia-caused brain damage.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the modern Democratic Party!
georgej on January 19, 2007 at 2:54 AM
Pelosi and many of the other astute Dems don’t worry too much about the KO’s crowd. They’re used to the whining and bitching from that bunch; geez, you couldn’t find a more juvenile, me, me, me group outside of a kindergarden class. The Dem leadership knows that when it comes to nut-cuttin’ time, the nutroots will always pull the lever with the “D” on it. Even nutroots are smart enough to understand that they stand absolutly zero chance to get their agenda enacted into law under any other party.
We, on the other hand, eat our own. Instead of applying the same logic as the nutroots on election day, some “protest” by staying home. Later those same folks cry worse than any KO’er about the lack of conservative legislation making it through congress.
When will we learn that even diamonds have flaws?
BacaDog on January 19, 2007 at 7:34 AM
Did she really say this?
Pelosi: The president knows that because the troops are in harm’s way, that we won’t cut off the resources. That’s why he’s moving so quickly to put them in harm’s way.
If so, she is unbeleivable!
Ann on January 19, 2007 at 10:16 AM
They ought to be doing this fence-walking act on Mallory Square at sunset.
bloviator on January 19, 2007 at 10:31 AM
Ann, she did say it – I heard her this morning on the radio. The most ‘famous’ (note, not most bright or powerful) woman in the world is down right irresponsible.
That our electorate is so stupid is even more so.
Entelechy on January 19, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Where are our resident lefties?? Why aren’t they here supporting their gran-nan (or Mimmy, as she said her grandchildren call her)?
Rick on January 19, 2007 at 1:06 PM
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