Harry Reid sucks canal water

Reading Fox News Channel today, about Reid’s speech intended for this afternoon, I get the distinct impression that Harry “Walter Mitty” Reid thinks he’s got gonads;

If the president disagrees, let him come to us with an alternative. Instead of sending us back to square one with a veto, some tough talk and nothing more, let him come to the table in the spirit of bipartisanship that Americans demand and deserve,” Reid will say according to excerpts of the speech to be delivered to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Reid will also criticize Bush for a speech last week in which the president asserted that the troop surge he proposed in January — and which is only three-fifths complete — is showing hopeful signs of progress.

“The White House transcript says the president made those remarks in the state of Michigan. I believe he made them in the state of denial,” Reid will say.

Ho-ho. Funny fricken guy. I think Reid is in a catatonic state. By the way, Dingy Harry, it’s not the President’s job to write legislation, just like it’s not the Senate’s job to micromanage our National Security.

On the “up” side, the Washington Post reports that Reid is steering clear of his “woe is us – all is lost” speech from last week;

Reid did not repeat his assertion last week that “this war is lost,” a comment that drew sharp criticism from Republicans, who branded the Senate majority leader as defeatist. But according to the excerpts, Reid mixes sharp criticism of Bush with praise for Congress’s efforts to end the conflict and appeals to antiwar voters to be patient.

But Reid wants to be a general so bad he can almost taste it;

In defending his order to increase U.S. troop strength in Iraq by about 30,000 as part of a plan to secure Baghdad and western Iraq, Bush “tells us it’s ‘surge or nothing,'” and that the choice is to “stay the course or fail,” Reid said. “With all due respect, our president is wrong, and the new Congress will show him the way.”

Despite Reid’s legal advice, which must be coming from the tearful Code Pink protesters, Congress has nothing to say to about fighting wars except to fork over the cash, or don’t fork over the cash. I cringe at the thought of those defeatists writing op orders for squad leaders in Sadr City.

But Reid already knows that;

As for antiwar voters who expect the Democratic majorities in the House and Senate to take action to end the war, the Senate majority leader says, “I understand the restlessness that some feel. Many who voted for change in November anticipated dramatic and immediate results in January. But like it or not, George W. Bush is still the commander in chief — and this is his war.”

So this tough talk is all about appeasing the Kos Kids and Code Pink hags. Nice constituency you got there, Harry.

Reid also calls Bush “the odd man out” on Iraq war policy and says meetings with him are not substantive but merely “carefully scripted sessions where he repeats his talking points.”

He’s the “odd man out” on Iraq because he’s leading the country, not following the latest rant of squeakiest wheels like you’re doing, Senator. See, this is leadership;

“And, therefore, I will strongly reject an artificial timetable withdrawal and/or Washington politicians trying to tell those who wear the uniform how to do their job,” [President Bush] said. “I will, of course, be willing to work with the Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, on a way forward. . . . But I also made it clear that no matter how tough it may look, that for the Congress to micromanage this process is a mistake.”

I figured you missed that class, Harry, since you stick your crooked, wrinkled finger in the air to determine which way you go for the moment. Leaders lead despite what detractors and sideline quarterbacks might say. So sit down, shut up and get out of the way. But he can’t. from the AP via the DC Examiner;

Reid said Bush was in “a state of denial” over the war, and likened him to another commander in chief four decades ago. “I remember when President Johnson, trying to save his political legacy, initiated the first of many surges into Vietnam in 1965,” he said.

Reid said thousands more U.S. troops died in Vietnam in the years that followed. Now, he said, Bush “is the only person who fails to face this war’s reality – and that failure is devastating not just for Iraq’s future, but for ours.”

Except that this President isn’t trying to save a legacy – he’s trying to fight a REAL WAR that is a REAL THREAT to the US and it’s citizens. Not some sorry-ass excuse of a “war for containment” fought for the glorification of the “best and the brightest” of Camelot to prove Democrats could be tough on Communism, too.

And what brand of pussy releases his speech hours before he gives it? Another way to stick your finger in the air to tell which the wind is blowing, I guess.

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