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After The Combat Troops Leave Iraq, Mostly Silence On The Right

Posted 8/19/10 at 9:33am by jamie

Face it – the right hate seeing combat operations come to an end. Their silence on the milestone being reached last night in the 7 year war proves the claims the left has made for years; the right loves them some war.

For example, how do you think the champion news site of the right, Drudge, promotes the story?

Yup – nothing but a little blurb 1/2 way down the page on the third column. Way to celebrate our heroes their Matt!

But someone on the right did notice:

John McCain wants to thank George Bush, the guy who got us into this war with no plan for exit or victory. The same George Bush who sat by like a deer in the headlights as the insurgency many warned about came to fruition and killed thousands of our young troops.

Of course if John McCain would have won in 2008 we wouldn’t be at this milestone today. He was all set to keep combat troops in Iraq another 10 years and not think twice about it.

For us on the left, today is a day to celebrate the start of the end of this war. For the right, it’s a sad day in which their favorite national pastime is coming to an end.

So What Will Happen Tomorrow

Posted 1/18/10 at 7:40pm by jamie

If Massachusetts race ends up very close, I predict one of the 2 scenarios:

Brown wins:
Coakley will challenge it. This will spark outrage from the right as they start yelling how the election was stolen from them.

Coakley wins:
Brown will challenge it. The right will circle around Brown claiming he is standing up for democracy.

No matter what happens tomorrow it will be fun to watch. This is why I love politics – it’s the best sporting event out there.

As far as the future of health care, well I really don’t know. If it does go down then we can at least say we got closer than ever before. I also suspect if it fails we will see health care costs continue to sky rocket, and it will remain a good platform for Democrats to run on, but that’s only if the Democrats take some lessons in “message control” and don’t stand there like the old deer in the headlights when tea baggers show up.

And perhaps all this will be for the best. Democrats could put forth new legislation this year that doesn’t do public options, exchanges or any of that stuff. Instead put in regulation reform for health care. Open it up to national competition and tighten the reigns on what insurance companies can and can not do. Push the reform as a “consumer advocacy” type legislation and then it will become harder for Republicans to vote against it. That will be a good foundation that we can expand coverage upon at a later date.

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