The Sunshine Empire

As I have been on a bit of a vacation, which thankfully enough I was sick for most of, I have returned as MacArthur once said. Watching The War on PBS has me focused on the war in Iraq again and specifically the troops of the volunteer United States armed forces. Politicians in Washington without fail will profess to be in favor of the troops no matter the side of the aisle that you stand on. But Congress as an entity has become nothing more than an elementary school playground full of inane bullshit stunts and petty grandstanding. Moveon.org, an organization that sprung from the sanctimonious Republican impeachment of the 42nd President, used an ad to criticize the testimony of General Petraeus. Now many have written missives about the appropriateness of the ad, and we all know of how many Democratic Senators voted with the political stunt resolution as if it were 5 days after 9/11 with the Patriot Act sitting in front of them. But now many Republican Senators are silent in criticizing their own favorite drug addled radio fat man in South Florida.

Now I am willing to give Limbaugh the benefit of the doubt that he did not mean to degrade the service of our troops, but Rush went to the well on that “Kerry calling the troops stupid” before the 2006 Congressional elections when he and everybody else not taking orders blindly from Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda channel knew he was saying that Bush was the brainless one. Nuance is only appropriate when an (R) comes after your name. Yet the Democrats have shown themselves to still be prone to this inane childishness by introducing their own resolution against the bald waste of good Florida real estate. All while Iraq burns, children are uninsured, and a major American city lays in practical ruins. No wonder the country is fed up. Which leads to the political question.

I can still remember the day after George W. Bush’s election as President in 2004, and how the liberal media cabal was proclaiming the Democratic Party as dead. I registered as a Democrat that day. But since that time the political capital that Bush boasted about is now albatrosses made of lead shit. There is no doubt that this would simply be a bombing on the level of the Clinton years of lobbing cruise missiles, but that would be the exact opposite of what the American people want. No matter all the Truman garbage you want to throw to obscure the point, this would only mean the complete destruction of the Republican party. Bombing Iran would equate to doubling the conflict and the Republicans are not sitting in an enviable position in every building in Washington save for the Supreme Court. I can’t imagine we’ll be able to draw down our forces once the Iranians invade Iraq. The act would most certainly open up the regional war that is supposed to be why we can’t leave Iraq. The logic is almost Orwellian.

Many more dangerous seats are up for grabs on the Republican side of the Senate and the White House will sadly be occupied by another Clinton come January 9th. The situation politically has become exponentially worse. The money gap between the two parties for the Congressional and Executive elections next fall is widening and the Democrats are starting to pull away fast. You can’t flood the airwaves with fear mongering wolf ads two weeks before the election when you are out of cash by September of ‘08. The Democrats will control everything come 2009, and they no doubt will be responsible for every ill that the country has faced since 2000.

This all diverts away from the men that are actually doing the gruesome task over there so bravely. I found this entry that gives a soldier’s perspective on the view of Limbaugh and such to those in uniform who don’t act like mind numbed robots and say anything he does. I was highly impressed with this and encourage you to read it.

Army of Dude tells the real deal