You know, sometimes I don't pay attention as well as I should. Yesterday I saw a headline about Bolton submitting his resignation to president Bush, and my mind first went to Michael Bolton. Now, as great as it would be for us never having to hear that pussy sing ever again, it's even greater that the report was referring to John Bolton, the beleaguered UN rep, who decided to resign rather than get completely spanked in confirmation hearings that would have certainly turned out with him being denied a reappointment to the post.
And then today, I saw a headline about Gates going before the Senate, and my first thought was of Bill Gates. Robert Gates makes more sense, since he's Bush's nominee to replace the outslithering Rumsfeld. Why did my brain go to Bill Gates? Who knows.
Well, Gates is starting off his confirmation hearings by pandering to the Democrats in what seems like a desperate attempt to get himself confirmed as defense secretary. He started out his day as the first Republican in Bush's administration to actually admit that we're not winning the war in Iraq. Now, although this is a step in the right direction in terms of message, if you sort through the bullshit, it can be only seen as pandering to the congressional majority for approval.
So, Iowa governor Tom Vilsack has thrown his hat in the ring for the 2008 Democratic nomination, and is coming on strong, attacking McCain, and saying a bunch of stuff that's obvious to a kid in freshman Poli-Sci class. His latest is that he wants to shrink the number of troops stationed in Iraq to a tiny little security detail. Wow...a democrat opposing the staunch authority of the evil republicans by cutting and running just like they said the democrats would. Now, I don't oppose scaling back troops, as you all well know, but if we pull out all at once, Iraq will collapse even more completely into the civil war the republicans are denying the very existence of. We need to do this in stages, so the Iraqis can be positioned to keep the infrastructure of the government intact.
And then today, I saw a headline about Gates going before the Senate, and my first thought was of Bill Gates. Robert Gates makes more sense, since he's Bush's nominee to replace the outslithering Rumsfeld. Why did my brain go to Bill Gates? Who knows.
Well, Gates is starting off his confirmation hearings by pandering to the Democrats in what seems like a desperate attempt to get himself confirmed as defense secretary. He started out his day as the first Republican in Bush's administration to actually admit that we're not winning the war in Iraq. Now, although this is a step in the right direction in terms of message, if you sort through the bullshit, it can be only seen as pandering to the congressional majority for approval.
So, Iowa governor Tom Vilsack has thrown his hat in the ring for the 2008 Democratic nomination, and is coming on strong, attacking McCain, and saying a bunch of stuff that's obvious to a kid in freshman Poli-Sci class. His latest is that he wants to shrink the number of troops stationed in Iraq to a tiny little security detail. Wow...a democrat opposing the staunch authority of the evil republicans by cutting and running just like they said the democrats would. Now, I don't oppose scaling back troops, as you all well know, but if we pull out all at once, Iraq will collapse even more completely into the civil war the republicans are denying the very existence of. We need to do this in stages, so the Iraqis can be positioned to keep the infrastructure of the government intact.
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