{"id":10984,"date":"2007-06-01T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10984.html"},"modified":"2007-06-01T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T19:30:28","slug":"a-pox-on-both-houses-when-only-one-will-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-pox-on-both-houses-when-only-one-will-do\/","title":{"rendered":"A pox on both houses … when only one will do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roll Call Executive Editor and Fox News contributor Mort Kondracke agrees that the U.S. policy in Iraq is a disaster, and is ready to assign blame … to everyone<\/a>. (via TPM<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Barring a miracle, the United States faces a catastrophic defeat in Iraq, with President Bush and both Republicans and Democrats in Congress sharing in the blame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, Dems, who haven’t been able to shape the Iraq policy in any way<\/i> are partially responsible for the disaster. Why? Kondracke has a novel argument.<\/p>\n

Most [congressional Democrats] agreed with Bush on the presence weapons of mass destruction and voted to authorize the war — then quickly backed off when the going got tough. <\/p>\n

Hardly any Democrats joined Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in arguing that more troops were needed to achieve victory. Democratic policy almost from the beginning was: “get out,” regardless of the consequences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Take a moment to mull over just how dumb this is. Dems bought into the White House’s bogus case for war, and have opposed the president’s policy, as Kondracke put it, “almost from the beginning.”<\/p>\n

I’m having the darnedest time wrapping my head around such a bizarre argument. Dems should be blamed for Bush’s “catastrophic” policy, despite having resisted and challenged the policy from the outset because, well, Kondracke thinks it would be nice.<\/p>\n

Fox News, give this guy a raise. Most professionals wouldn’t want their names on such tripe, but Kondracke appears willing to take one for the team.
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\nPost Script<\/i>: It’s a bit of a tangent, but Kondracke notes in his first paragraph that “Republicans…in Congress” deserve some of the blame and then went on to ignore the role of congressional Republicans for the rest of the column.<\/p>\n

Nothing about the lack of oversight, nothing about hte lack of hearings, nothing about the rubber-stamp attitude, nothing about the mindless, automatic approval of every Bush spending request.<\/p>\n

To read Kondracke’s piece, congressional Dems were more responsible for the Iraqi failure than congressional Republicans — despite the fact that Dems never had any power at all<\/i>. Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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