Genuine Draft
Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Earth to Joe Biden…you think Howard Dean’s comments hurt the Democrats? How about your nutcase suggestion that we might have to REINSTIUTUTE THE DRAFT!?!
Why not just propose raising everybody’s taxes to pay for the abortions of welfare cheats while your’e at it?
In case you missed it, supporting the Iraq war is now UNpopular. This isn’t 2002.
So either Joe is completely delusional, or he REALLY THINKS WE CAN WIN THIS THING!
There you go again, thinking like you are in the majority. The Democrats’ position should be “Set a timetable for withdrawl from Iraq.” Period.
Not “we might need a draft.”
You see. “Set a timetable for withdrawl from Iraq” is not only good policy, it’s a POLITICAL WINNER.
Most Republicans can’t advocate it (with a few exceptions), because it means admitting Bush is a fuck up and that their party cannot be trusted to protect our national security.
What in the world are those Congressional Democrats smoking up there?
The sooner Howard Dean, with our help, either knocks some sense into them, or forces them into retirement, the better.
UPDATE: The Light of Reason follows my lead…and gets linked to by Atrios.
June 12th, 2005 at 6:44 pm
Joe just aint getting it. Before he can forecast a possible exit timetable he needs to acknowledge that the whole situation in Iraq was a grave mistake and that Bush lied to the American people. If he was smart, he’d start distancing himself from growing Iraqi monster. As flakey as the American public is, it will take divine intervention to reverse the dissatisfaction over Iraq that’s headed Bush’s way.
June 12th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
Hesiod manages to write what I can only feel. My fingers stumbled over the keyboard and out came: #$%! *(^#@!
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…give ‘em hell, Howard!
June 13th, 2005 at 6:00 am
I agree Joe is not eager enough to get us out of Iraq. Talking about the Republicans having put us in the position to need a draft is not an awful thing, however.
Does anyone thing the vast majority of folks dying over there are not folks who needed the economic opportunity the military provided? Someone that volunteers is not necessarily someone that wants to do what they are volunteering to do.
I, for one, believe we are nothing like a classless society. The middle and lower classes are spilling the blood and doing the dying for the economic elite. A fair draft would not be the worst thing to happen.
What is more likely to happen, though, is the thought of their privileged sons and daughters being conscripted at a time of combat will make our occupation of Iraq a lot more unpopular with wealthy conservatives.
June 13th, 2005 at 6:12 am
Biden, in my opinion, is consistent in his idiotic comments. He strikes me as being so self centered that he never seriously considers the effects of his remarks on the party or the people, for that matter. I have long wondered if there is some conspiracy to aerosolize dim wittedness and to release it in most of the Democrats’ offices.
June 13th, 2005 at 6:41 am
TOON OF THE DAY: OK Science
June 13th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
I’m sure that if the draft is reinstated, there will be some very comfy stateside bases build or refurbished, from which hardly anybody ever gets sent to scary places, where people who are too important to have to worry about their kids being shot at can send their kids.
I guarantee that one way or another the number of fat cats kittens in combat will not be significantly affected by the draft, except for one or two examples who will die gloriously.
June 13th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
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