House of Eratosthenes

Evidently, the Democratic party’s plan for the Iraq mission, or quandry, or conundrum, or quagmire or debacle or whatever you want to call it, is this: Nothing. You read that right, nothing. They don’t know what to do about it. There is no plan, and there is no plan to make a plan. There is no intention to rally around a single, blessed, party-position about what to do to solve the problem, not even later on when the midterm elections are in full swing. The official party position, is that it’s every Democrat for him- or herself…

[House Minority Leader Nancy] Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq. There is consensus within the party that President Bush has mismanaged the war and that a new course is needed, but House Democrats should be free to take individual positions, she sad.

“There is no one Democratic voice . . . and there is no one Democratic position,” Pelosi said in an interview with Washington Post reporters and editors.

…Can both sides of the aisle, at least step up and come to an agreement that what Pelosi’s party is offering, is something that falls short of leadership? Seems obvious.

I don’t know if Byron York, of the National Review, reads my blog. I would suspect hardly anybody does. But how else do you explain this gem which appeared Thursday on The Hill:

The Democrats are the real party of arrogance

How many times have you heard Democrats describe George W. Bush as “arrogant”?

Too many to count. And truth be told, a number of unhappy Republicans are using the A-word themselves when referring to the president these days.

But if you want to see arrogance � lots and lots of it � you need look no further than the Democratic Party�s plan to win the House and Senate this November.

Simply put, Democrats believe they can ask voters to give them control of the legislative branch without revealing any sort of policy or plan to deal with the most pressing issue before the country today: the war in Iraq.

And Bush is arrogant?

Not only do Democrats not have a plan, they�re proud of not having a plan. [emphasis mine]

Last December, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sat down with a group of reporters and editors of The Washington Post. The journalists asked what Democrats would do about Iraq were they to win power in 2006.

“Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq,” the Post reported. “‘There is no one Democratic voice … and there is no one Democratic position,’ Pelosi said.”

It was dramatic proof of the party�s disarray on the war, but the Post gave the story the most charitable headline possible: “Pelosi Hails Democrats� Diverse War Stances.”

I’ve been robbed, but I’m not calling the police. I’m quite flattered.

Over a hundred million of us voted in the last Presidential election. A large chunk of those voters will be voting in the midterms this year.

It is an established fact that a major political party participating in those midterms, is on-record with their failure to arrive at a plan, and the pride they take in this failure to form a plan, to deal with the most critical life-and-death issue our nation faces today.

This story is huge, huge, huge, huge, huge. So I hope Mr. York is just the first in a long line of people waiting to rob me by taking notice. Step right up.

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