Posted by
Steve on Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:57:10 AM
The Senate is considering a non-binding resolution against the war on Terror. It looks like many Republicans, the 11/7 Republicans as Dean Barrett calls them, will vote for the resolution. That will insure passage. It will make the US look foolish in the eyes of the world. I know the resolution is non-binding, but it just looks bad.
We are pinning our hopes on John McCain to pull one out of his hat for us. He has managed to pull one out of the hat to stab us in the back many times. Maybe he can actually accomplish some good. I doubt that he has the energy to do it. I doubt that he will even attempt to do it unless he is sure of winning. John McCain is nothing if not a weasel these past few years. He has to be on the winning side.
If he wants to be President, he has to pull the fat out of the fire. I just doubt that he has the pull to do it. He does not have the credibility that the main stream media seem to think that he has. He is seen as a maverick. Mavericks cannot lead in times of crisis. They are seen as too ephemeral to lead in times of crisis. They can lead in the good times, just not the tough times.
There really is no other Republican that wants to be President that could pull off the defeat of this measure. For this measure to pass will send a message to Al Qaeda that they are winning. Al Qaeda will have to wait just a little while longer and we will collapse like he paper tiger bin Laden said we were 15 years ago. We cannot let this happen. Unfortunately, we have to work through a Democrat congress and they surrendered years ago. I do not hold out much hope for the good guys on this one.