Meet the Orphan.
Although 'scapegoat' isn't off of the table just yet.
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UPDATE BY PEJMAN: I just had to get in on the fun regarding this issue on my own blog. Behold. But I must admit, Moe is better with the snark.
This is not the sort of article about yourself that you want to read over your Sunday coffee, ya, you betcha:
Murtha Stumbles on Iraq Funding Curbs
Democrats Were Ill-Prepared for Unplanned Disclosure, Republican Attacks
By Jonathan Weisman and Lyndsey LaytonThe plan was bold: By tying President Bush's $100 billion war request to strict standards of troop safety and readiness, Democrats believed they could grab hold of Iraq war policy while forcing Republicans to defend sending troops into battle without the necessary training or equipment.
But a botched launch by the plan's author, Rep. John P. Murtha (Pa.), has united Republicans and divided Democrats, sending the latter back to the drawing board just a week before scheduled legislative action, a score of House Democratic lawmakers said last week.
(Via Powerline)
You also don't want to hear the word 'score' used as a number in this sort of situation: it implies that the reporters ran out of interest in calling for legislators' opinions before the legislators ran out of interest in giving them.
Read on.
Here's the spanking new narrative - the 'frame', if you will - of the Matter of Murtha:
The story of Murtha's star-crossed plan illustrates the Democratic Party's deep divisions over the Iraq war and how the new House majority has yet to establish firm control over Congress. From the beginning, Murtha acted on his own to craft a complicated legislative strategy on the war, without consulting fellow Democrats. When he chose to roll out the details on a liberal, antiwar Web site on Feb. 15, he caught even Pelosi by surprise while infuriating Democrats from conservative districts.
Then for an entire week, as members of Congress returned home for a recess, Murtha refused to speak further. Democratic leaders failed to step into the vacuum, and Republicans relentlessly attacked a plan they called a strategy to slowly bleed the war of troops and funds. By the end of the recess, Murtha's once promising strategy was in tatters.
Tom Andrews, a former House member and antiwar activist who helped Murtha with his Internet rollout, fumed: "The issue to me is, what is the state of the backbone of the Democratic Party? How will they respond to this counterattack? Republicans are throwing touchdown passes on this because the Democrats aren't even on the field."
Quite artistic, in its way. Ties Murtha to the antiwar movement, cuts him away from his fellow Democrats in general and Speaker Pelosi in particular, gives a nice excuse for why there was no followthrough and reinforces the point with a quote from the Angry Left that stops just short of calling the Democratic Party a bunch of gutless cowards.
Well played, WaPo. Well played.
As to why... well, take your pick of reasons. Perhaps the WaPo is no longer quite as convinced that Iraq will end in tears as it used to be; or perhaps they're remembering that, while they may like to dance with Barack, they'll still be going home with Hillary. Or possibly they even can't stand the pork-swilling, sticky-handed son-of-a-...gun any more than I can. Anyway you pick 'em, it looks like the Underminer's just felt a bit of a draft. Thinks he realizes it?
Hmmmmm. Mayyyy-beee...
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a better match for Tedward, hmm... (both of course as Bad Hoggle, before he was helpful)... I think this is Democrat Freshman class picture
Not surprising. I guess it means that they feel the antiwar faction has no choice but to vote D and can be taken for granted.
I think you can see that Hillary has vowed she will not be knocked out early in the primaries. She also must have convinced the people she needs to that she has the resources. This will render the peaceniks disposable. Still depends on the the GOTV for primaries and the demographic.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Yep, I think it should be the Republican strategy to court disaffected anti-war moonbats, disappointed in the lack of support by the Speaker-In-Law for the Underminer.
First, we have to learn some new, colorful words....
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
but now the Dems are getting nervous. In more ways than one this could blow up in their faces, it might actually have consequences the media won't be able to paper over. Serious stuff.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
It seems the only thing the media can't paper over are their own colossal flubs.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
that he is irking his allies in the effort to undermine American efforts in Iraq and elsewhere. I'm guessing delirium tremens or dementia, but it could just be terminal obnoxious stupidity.
maybe if his nose grew with the lies he told clicky