Thanks for the “surge”, Democrats

Remember Paul Kanjorsky? He’s the guy who spilled the beans that Democrats knew they couldn’t stop the war in 2006, but used it as a wedge to fool voters into giving them control of Congress anyway. I wrote about it here. Well, Jeff Emmanuel (by way of Ace of Spades) catches him making up for telling the truth by lying on the floor of Congress in this clip;

Emmanuel provides the transcript;

In February 2007, Kanjorski went to the floor of the House to say:

Ms. Speaker, I rise today to join the overwhelming majority of the American people, the Congress, and many top U.S. military commanders to voice my opposition to President Bush’s ill-conceived plan to send more American troops into the middle of an ongoing Civil War in Iraq

Then, in an interview from just days ago, Kanjorski said:

We’ve taken public positions which have now forced the president to go into the surge mentality, which is somewhat working

Recently, it was his unfortunate honesty that hurt him; this time, it will be that honesty combined with a penchant for duplicitousness that will come back to haunt him.

Now, if “surge mentality” means “ignoring the spittle-slinging morons in Congress and do what it takes to win the war”, then Kanjorski is correct, they did force the president to go into the surge mentality, but somehow I don’t think that’s how he meant it.

We’ve seen the same scenario played out before. Remember how the Clintonistas bragged that their guy was the first-ever president to have the courage to reform welfare? Even now, they tout the fact that Clinton “balanced the budget” and they call themselves “fiscally responsible”. But, unfortunately for them, we now live in the age of YouTube and blogs – that crap doesn’t work anymore.

Category: Politics