Starting tomorrow each member of the house of representatives will get five minutes to make a speech about US involvement in Iraq, specifically the president’s plan to increase troop levels by 25,000 Americans and to increase funding by $100 billion. Multiply the 435 members of the house by 5 minutes each and they should be done about 500 billion minutes from now.
How does Bush’s “surge” policy get five total minutes’ consideration? After four years of failure in Iraq and unprecedented criticism from high level military and administration experts, Bush finally responded only after the Republicans lost both houses of congress. And his response is more of the same with greater loss of life and money.
The most pathetic part of the whole thing is that despite all of this, one third of Americans still approve of the job President Bush is doing. I figure that these are mostly red state “love it or leave it” types who run the college football coach out of town when he ends up with a winning season but doesn’t get the proper bowl bid. There is more than enough protest from alumni and local yahoos when the football team isn’t producing. But there’s unlimited patience with Bush in these same places. He’ll turn it around!
How does Bush’s “surge” policy get five total minutes’ consideration? After four years of failure in Iraq and unprecedented criticism from high level military and administration experts, Bush finally responded only after the Republicans lost both houses of congress. And his response is more of the same with greater loss of life and money.
The most pathetic part of the whole thing is that despite all of this, one third of Americans still approve of the job President Bush is doing. I figure that these are mostly red state “love it or leave it” types who run the college football coach out of town when he ends up with a winning season but doesn’t get the proper bowl bid. There is more than enough protest from alumni and local yahoos when the football team isn’t producing. But there’s unlimited patience with Bush in these same places. He’ll turn it around!
On the much brighter side, I would like to pause to recognize someone very special who is making a difference:
Alyssa, sign me up!
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