Rubber Stamp Republicans Feel the Cost

Rubber Stamp Republicans Feel the Cost

John Quincy Adams

“You are hearing more and more questions about
the administration's approach on this issue,” said Lorne W. Craner, president
of the International Republican Institute, a foundation linked to the Republican
Party that supports democratic activities abroad. “The 'realists' in
the party are rearing their heads and asking, 'Is this stuff working?'
“

The critics, who include Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska
and Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois,
as well as Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft, are alarmed at the costs of
military operations and of nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They have also been shaken by the victory of Hamas
in Palestinian elections in January and by the gains Islamists scored in elections
in Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon.

The administration, with support from legislators like
Senators John McCain of Arizona and Sam Brownback of Kansas, contends that
whatever their outcome, elections are better than violent upheaval. But critics
worry that antidemocratic extremists will prevail wherever tradition and existing
civil institutions are too weak to protect the rights of minorities or to
nurture moderates.

Democracy
Push by Bush Attracts Doubters in Party

Three years of Bush incompetence on Iraq have Republicans reassessing
their rubber stamp.

Well, hells bells, fellas, why not just wait until the whole Iraqi
nation is aflame!

Too little, too late, I'm afraid, but thanks for finally stepping
in and speaking out. I'll be sure to give your latest press clippings to the
maimed, the widowed and orphaned. They'll be touched.

It's also time to take Senator John McCain at his word. For years
we've been hearing him talk about how low he finished at the Academy, laughing
off his none too stellar academic record. It's time we believed him, because
even in the face of 3 years of incompetence, Senator McCain still believes Bush's
“stay the course” “victory” cry is the way to go. He's even
got Senator Lindsay Graham carrying his water for him, hoping to create a different
experience in South Carolina for 2008. First he's got to deal with conservatives who are making the case against him.

Here's the question Republicans are now asking, if all too late: Is Bush's Iraq
policy working? More to the point, is Bush's preemptive strategy of American foreign policy working?

After the 3 years of evidentiary incompetence it's a colossal
mind bender that they're still asking this question. You can't say Republicans didn't give Bush enough time to hang himself. Unfortunately, because we're talking about American foreign policy, we will all hang together.

We've launched Operation
Swarmer, coupled with the president's state side p.r.
campaign, Operation Preemption Was Worth It, to make sure the public is
focused on rallying about the commander in chief, right when the 3rd anniversary
of his incompetence comes around.

God bless our generals and the troops, because
without them, George W. Bush would have Deadeye approval numbers right now.

But if you needed further evidence that Bush's preemptive theory
of foreign policy is dead, we got more of it today.

“You cannot in my opinion
just impose a democratic form of government on a country with no history and
no culture and no tradition of democracy,” said Senator Hagel.

That won't stop President Bush, with Condi the Incompetent parroting
the president's we'll “stick to our goals” mantra, no matter the mania
now being unleashed in Mesopotamia.

Now, let us compare some insights. American tenets versus the dangerous
notions of meddling men when they decide to change the great experiment that
is our democratic republic.

Do you want to follow this…

Mr. Bush's intent is clear from the very
first sentence of the national security strategy paper issued yesterday: “It
is the policy of the United States to seek and support democratic movements
and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending
tyranny in our world.” The 49-page document calls this task “the
work of generations.”

or this idea..

“America does not go in search
of monsters to destroy. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
– John Quincy Adams

The answer is obvious.