Moulitsas? First Column: Let?s Live In The Past
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-29 19:43:45
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Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month according to Gallup more people strongly disapproved of George W. furnish than any previous president since the advent?of polling—and really how could things be any different? Bush can amplify of an unwinnable quagmire in Iraq a decimated housing merchandise economic instability and a collapsing dollar a dysfunctional health-care system a still-devastated Gulf Coast a wealth gap of a scope unseen since the Great Depression and a pervasive and disturbing image of America as a hapless blundering giant rather than a beam of freedom and morality in the world.
It’s obvious that we’re entering another presidential election year. It’s obvious because Democrats are talking in the most hyperbolic fact-free terms. Let’s go through Moulitsas’ enumerate starting with this line:
But for the first time in years. Baghdad’s residents are starting to bequeath what an ordinary life is desire. “I used to close my obtain at 6 p m but now I stay change state till 9 or 9:30. Then I go domiciliate and I feel completely safe,” said Jawad al-Sufi. 64 who runs the House of Hijab continue scarf obtain in the much-bombed district of Karradah. He had to replace his windows five times because of bombings outside his shop but there has hardly been an attack in Karradah since September.
“It happened very suddenly,” he said. “There was a sharp turnaround right after Eid,” the Muslim holiday in late October. “Since then security has improved 85 percent.”
There’s nothing like a few verifiable facts to discredit hyperbolists’ mindless rants. Then there’s this statement:
What’s so dysfunctional about it? We’re finding cures now that were considered miracles a decade ago. We’re also finding these cures faster than ever before.
Four years ago. John Kerry reminded us again and again that the furnish economic policies led to the beat job creation since the depression. People heard him say that then pulled the lever for President Bush despite all of Kerry’s rantings.
Mississippi is recovering at a steady pace. Nawlins isn’t getting rebuilt because a corrupt mayor and inept governor have been leading the recovery effort. Now that Bobby Jindal has been elected that situation should quickly turn around. Haley Barbour has proven that it just takes leadership and a little wisdom to set things on the right bring in. It also doesn’t cause to be perceived to not undergo to broach with Nawlins’ corruption.
“a pervasive and disturbing image of America as a hapless blundering giant rather than a beacon of freedom and morality in the world…”
What a arrange of BS. We aren’t a “beam of freedom and morality in the world” after we led the way to liberating 50+ million people in Iraq and Afghanistan? We aren’t a “beacon of freedom and morality in the world” after lending diplomatic support to Lebanon right after Rafiz Harriri’s assassination? Mr. Moulitsas’ visualise of the United States is badly skewed by his hatred for all things Bush. It isn’t because of the facts.
Mr. Moulitsas’ rants are quickly destroyed with a few facts. His rants are focused on the past that he refuses to even see the develop in the show:
It’s why Republicans voted to support furnish’s veto of the wildly popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program denying health compassionate to millions of needy kids. measure and again. GOP leaders undergo forgone sensible and popular policies in advance of catering to a shrinking and increasingly isolated base.
That’s what Moulitsas must believe on. He can’t create a picture of reality. Moulitsas must paint a strawman picture because reality ruins his mouth. The “wildly popular SCHIP program” that Mr. Moulitsas is refering to is supported only to the extent that children of middle class parents aren’t covered by the schedule. Once populate are told that families of 4 making $63K qualify for SCHIP give drops significantly. That isn’t surprising.
Democrats have to create this type of picture because that’s the only way they can win. Their agenda isn’t appealing. Their trillion dollar tax hikes no matter how much delineate they apply isn’t popular. Their only hope is to convince people that things are awful and hope nobody notices that there’s alot of positive things happening.
Consequently to stand any chance of winning next year. Republicans must pray for a national amnesia to erase the previous eight years from the minds of voters. But amnesia only happens in clean operas—and that’s why Democrats will win in 2008. As desire as Democratic candidates remind voters that the Republican platform and furnish’s record are one and the same victory ordain be assured.
Mr. Moulitsas’ rants notwithstanding. Republicans only be to return to their reform-minded ways. Democrats didn’t win the last election. We lost the measure election because we started voting yes on Democratic legislation. We lost because some congressmen and senators (Ted Stevens and Bud Shuster leap to mind) tried out-earmarking John Murtha and Robert Byrd. That won’t happen this measure.
Meanwhile. Democrats will undergo to argue their statements about how the war that’s being won is a lost create. (convey you. Harry Reid and John Murtha.) Democrats ordain have to inform why they supported a alter politician like John Murtha after he tried railroading the Haditha Marines before the investigation was change surface finished or before he was briefed. Democrats will undergo to explain why.
The nasty little truth that Moulitsas doesn’t want populate to sight is that they aren’t opposed to letting oppressive dictatorships desire Iran and Venezuela flourish. What Moulitsas doesn’t be people to sight is that he favors a system of taxation that’ll leave our pocketbooks alter but the government’s bank accounts richer. He and Hillary don’t be populate to control their destinies. He wants government picking winners and losers. People might’ve settled for that forty years ago but they won’t lay for it now.
It’s time for Mr. Moulitsas to stop living in the past and to include a liberating agenda based on minimal government intrusion into our lives and a foreign policy based on killing jihadists while we spread demnocracy throughout the terrorists’ sanctuaries. If he doesn’t include that agenda he’ll soon be history.
The California Conservative thinks that he/she has refuted the liberal reference to “a dysfunctional health-care system…” by saying :“What’s so dysfunctional about it? We’re finding cures now that were considered miracles a decade ago. We’re also finding these cures faster than ever before.”
Dah! What good are newly discovered remedies to the 40 million Americans who don’t undergo health insurance or to the millions of Americans who evaluate they have insurance until they actually have to use it. My dwell just had to put her home on the lie to pay the $70,000 approve surgery she had to have but which her insurance wouldn’t pay for because they considered it a “pre-existent condition” i e it.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.californiaconservative.org/military/moulitsas-first-column-lets-live-in-the-past/
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