GoSlash27 said:
His plan may be brilliant. It may even be producing results. It doesn't really matter because any hope of "winning" this war is coming to an abrupt halt in January '09 when our new anti-war president is sworn in along with an anti-war congress and anti-war senate.
Well the acknowledgment of brilliance of the plan that is bring success in Iraq shows some recognition of factual information your assertion about the Congress is still baseless but at least consistent.
Fact is right now Operation Iraqi Freedom is TWICE as popular then the Democrat led 110th Congress. The 110th Congress is the least popular Congress since pollsters began measuring this.
Let us review. In November, Gallup pegged the Congressional job approval at 20% with 69% disapproval.
In December, Gallup found that 40% of Americans think the Surge is working, 39% say not working.
And while 57% now say going into Iraq was a mistake, 41% say it was not a mistake.
69% say electing this Congress was a mistake. Only 20% believe this Congress was not a mistake.
MORE people feel that electing this Congress was a mistake then feel that going into Iraq was. Hardly facts that support an increase in the Democrat majority.
Still Reid pushes for undermining this admittedly brilliant plan that is succeeding.
As for the Presidency, hardly a lock given that all 4 of the leading Republicans are now polling better then the (now questionably) assumed Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton in head to head polling.
The Democrats made the fatal error in politics. They bet on the failure of others instead of the attributes of themselves. There are many many people out there that actually believe that it is a spin and smear game. They think that Americans are unintelligent and unaware. This tactic may work short term but politics really is a battle of ideas and if your only idea is new ways to attack an opponent, you'll soon find yourself at the fringe. And once you get there you can't even get a legitimately valuable idea taken seriously from you. There is a huge difference between pointing out flaws and sophistry. Let then run against Bush instead of on their own attributes again. See if Americans fall for it twice. Polling data suggests that they won't.
Gallup War Poll
RCP Job aproval Polling data Gallup's results are on the second line.
As a note of political progress.....the Kurdish and Sunnis have made an agreement of use of the northern Iraqi oil fields.
AP report