House of Eratosthenes

Earlier this month I came up with what I expect to become a meme: Picard vs. the Tazmanian Devil. That’s an incredibly odd juxtaposition, made intentionally so, but I expect if you pay attention you’ll see it dovetails with real life in a lot of ways. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is civilized, foresightful, high-minded, sensible, and intent on setting a good example. The Tazmanian Devil is none of those things. He is stupid, whereas Picard is smart, oh, so so smart. When the two square off, Picard will always lose, because in a game of chicken the victory always goes to the blind man.

The House of Representatives has voted 253-153 that, for the time being, The United States will be the Tazmanian Devil. Thank God.

…the GOP-led House approved a nonbinding resolution that praises U.S. troops, labels the Iraq war part of the larger global fight against terrorism and says an “arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment” of troops is not in the national interest.

“Retreat is not an option in Iraq,” declared House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. “Achieving victory is our only option … We have no choice but to confront these terrorists, win the war on terror and spread freedom and democracy around the world.”

My enthusiasm wanes a little bit with the Wilsonian tidbit at the end. President Freeberg’s doctrine would be, run whatever government you want to run until your country presents a credible threat and then we will do whatever is necessary to protect our interests. In other words, the international neighborhood tolerates an eyesore in your front yard, up until that eyesore is a rocket launcher, then we move in.

But I’ll take what I can get. More to the point, what the armed forces can get. How would you like to be stationed there right now, with a timeline over your head? Like, January 31, 2007? How’d ya like that? Brand new Al Qaeda troops streaming in, so they can join the Sleeper Cell Brigade, all waiting for orders to wake up and mobilize on February 1. That’d be some kind of fun, huh? I wonder how many families would be terrorized into working for the other side, how many children would be kidnapped, their lives threatened unless their fathers betrayed the American forces. That’d be a whole lot of fun for the troops if Congress had voted the other way, wouldn’t it. And they’d have the House of Representatives to thank for it…and therefore, all of us.

Kudos.

But Hopeful-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, currently the House Minority Leader, doesn’t think this is good news.

“Stay the course, I don’t think so Mr. President. It’s time to face the facts,” House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California answered, as she called for a new direction in the conflict. “The war in Iraq has been a mistake. I say, a grotesque mistake.”

Speaker-Hopeful Pelosi is representing, here, not only the anti-war peace-at-any-cost pinheads, but also the much larger contingent of nihilists and apathetics who chafe at any recognition of evil. Nooooooo, you can’t do that, it’s all relative. Ever notice these people never mention bin Laden except to caption our current President as some kind of an incompetent, just because UBL hasn’t yet been caught? It may be a valid point, it may not, but the point is they have nothing, nada, zilch, zero to say about UBL. Just we-armed-him and where-is-he. Their veins throbbing with a fresh infusion of moral-pronouncement-adrenaline, they can’t see fit to pronounce any moral judgments on UBL himself.

What does Speaker-Hopeful-Pelosi think of what UBL did? You know where that question would lead, don’t you. Her answer would be heavily peppered with tidbits about “what happened on September 11, 2001.” Not a single word about what anyone DID. If the questioner tried to inject that into the conversation, she’d quickly excise it. Her party represents an enormous faction of anarchists and nihilists; people who believe nothing bad ever results from anything that any conscious individual ever does. Not unless you’re talking about western civilization and/or Jews. Everything else is just something that “happened.” Watch for that word. They love that word “happened.”

Four months before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress, House Republicans sought to force Republicans and Democrats alike to take a position on the conflict that began with the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in the spring of 2003.

Democrats denounced the debate and vote as a politically motivated charade, and most, including Pelosi, voted against the measure. They said that supporting it would have the effect of affirming Bush’s “failed policy” in Iraq.

Ha! Remember that this November, boys and girls. Democrats want absolute power over everything, like they had in ’93 and ’94. If you ask them what they’ll do with all that power, about the issues you really care about, it’s a “politically motivated charade.”

There’s more than a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties. Pelosi’s party is a UNION party — never forget that. Once they run the show, you don’t ask them what they’ll do about anything, they tell you. And about what the issues are, they decide that too. They’ll tell you how you feel about everything, they’ll tell you what you’ve seen, and they’ll tell you what you think about it.

Once they’re in charge again, get ready for arguing about greedy rich old people getting their free medicine at the expense of thirty-something apartment rats barely making ends meet, and a whole slew of cuts in Social Security payments that have NEVER happened, and a whole lot of propaganda about the “religious right” outlawing things the religious right has never actually been able to do anything about…while the terrorists just trot around the globe doing whatever they want.

You haven’t seen a Democrat say what is going to be done about the terrorists. And you won’t.

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