Nancy and Harry's Totally Bogus Trip

(Totally forgot the first time around but we want to thank B-Daddy for his usual great work minding the store while we were out and about entertaining out-of-town company. And, yes… we thoroughly enjoyed this cold weather-region sporting phenomena called hockey on Friday night).

Since we have been taking an absolute beating in our college picks (but oddly enough, based upon past performances over the years, doing pretty well in our pro picks), we want to take time out to point out something that we may have possibly got right besides predicting USC being a two-loss team and not winning the BCS championship.

Attached article, here, documents the litany of failures the Democrats have experienced with regards to passing any legislation regarding the war in Iraq. Well, more accurately, legislation is getting passed but that legislation is for giving the President precisely what he wants. How is this possible? How is it possible that the Democrats who swept into the majority in both Houses on a surging tide of American sentiment in opposition to this illegal, ill-conceived, poorly executed war? Its possible because the ’06 mid-term elections weren’t really about the war, that’s why. Read our thoughts previously, here.

Dick Morris gave perhaps the best assessment of these elections when he commented that the Republicans getting beat because of the War in Iraq was like saying the passing of a person afflicted with AIDS was due to pneumonia. (Paraphrasing Morris): “Yeah, pneumonia may have been the thing that finally put that person in the grave but there was a far more deep-rooted, systemic problem that was ultimately responsible for that person’s death.”

The analogy struck us as odd at the time but no matter – he was right. The Republicans, drunk with power, became the very people they raged against way, way back last century when Newt and the gang arrived in town back in (19)94.

But back to the War in Iraq for a moment: Why is it that the anti-war set has been largely unable to gain traction in the wheelhouse of America’s consciousness. This may be a subject for a separate post but we can’t help but feel there is a sentiment among Americans that perhaps because we screwed up in Vietnam, we’ve got a chance to make things right this time around in Iraq. And this extends to several different aspects of that conflict: the execution of the War, our exit strategy that only led to genocide, the protests here at home, our treatment of the troops when they came back home, etc.

There’s a lot there for which to make up and regardless of this country’s overall dissatisfaction for the logic and reasoning for going to war one gets the sense that the complementary mood is: “O.K., we’re there – let’s try to do everything we can to at least get this century’s “unpopular war” done and done right”.