House of Eratosthenes

Via HotAir, via Gateway Pundit, via Conservative Grapevine: Liberals are so adorable when they pretend to be carefully defining and sticking to benchmarks in measuring success. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s rationale for why the surge hasn’t worked…

Against what backdrop does she make these cutting remarks? Well, what better place to get your info, than the Associated Press:

The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost. Limited, sometimes sharp fighting and periodic terrorist bombings in Iraq are likely to continue, possibly for years. But the Iraqi government and the U.S. now are able to shift focus from mainly combat to mainly building the fragile beginnings of peace — a transition that many found almost unthinkable as recently as one year ago.

Despite the occasional bursts of violence, Iraq has reached the point where the insurgents, who once controlled whole cities, no longer have the clout to threaten the viability of the central government.

But Speaker Nan says the primary objective must be political and not military, so in her big ol’ dinner plate sized strobe-blinking eyes, it’s a flop.

What hard, crisp, cool-headed, brutal critical thinking. I guess those drops of acid must have left a few brain cells alive. If she’s being sincere. If.

This is why people hate politicians so much. Wouldn’t it be nice if liberal democrats could use this logic in measuring the success of bullshit social programs that just exacerbate and multiply the problems they’re supposed to solve over the generations?

Well, your carbon voucher program was supposed to diminish the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…well, your program to end poverty was supposed to do exactly that, and I don’t see that poverty’s been ended…well, your gazillion and one bond issues were supposed to make our children more educated and better prepared to face the challenges in an evolving world…well, your progressive tax scheme was supposed to bolster the economy overall by getting rid of something called the “wealth gap”…well, your rock concert was supposed to find a cure for AIDS…well…well…

I could just do that all day. But it doesn’t reflect reality, because in reality we evaluate left-wing initiatives by their intentions, not by results. Speaker Nan seems to think that’s okay, and yet at the same time, other efforts like the surge should be measured differently.

I’m holding my breath, with you, waiting for the press to ask the tough questions about this. I’m sure it will happen on The View first.

What a complete asshole!

The purpose of the surge was NOT to bring about political reconciliation, you dim witted shithead. Though that has actually happened and everyone can see it, except Pelosi evidently. The purpose of the surge was to end the violence, kill as many al Qaeda that wanted to die, etc., etc. You know, stuff that gets done by the barrel of a gun Nan.

Also, by the way little Nancy, the reason the approval ratings of congress are WAY down is because you guys suck at your jobs. Period. There is more to running this country than a war, excuse me, to ending a war. BTW, while you and fellow losers were trying to lose a war, the finest military in the world has basically won it.

Pelosi is an embarrassment. For all you people who decided to “send a signal” to the republicans last election by not voting or voting for Dem’s, bravo.
- tim | 07/29/2008 @ 12:41
Now tim, that is not quite fair. Millions of people made their way to the polls in 2006 to remove the Republicans from power for lots of other reasons beside Iraq, so Pelosi has only shown herself to be a colossal failure with one among several of her initiatives.

For example, another important thing 2006 voters had in mind when they put Speaker Nan in charge, was to bring down the price of gas…
- mkfreeberg | 07/29/2008 @ 12:53
I stand corrected.
- tim | 07/29/2008 @ 14:09

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