Harry, 19% is all you can get!

I really hate to keep beating up Harry Reid, especially since so many others are doing it at the same time, but he just makes it so easy. Reading the Washington Times this afternoon I find this article by S. A. Miller who tells us Harry is changing his strategy;

Mr. Reid began the week Monday by vowing to “push very, very hard” for troop withdrawal from Iraq in a Defense Department budget authorization bill in two weeks.
    The next day — as the Senate began work on the energy bill and tried to revive immigration legislation — the Nevada Democrat and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California sent a letter to the White House imploring the president to heed the Democrat-led Congress’ call for a pullout.
    That same day, Mr. Reid railed against the war and U.S. military leaders in a conference call with a group of liberal bloggers.
    And yesterday, he said the Pentagon’s quarterly report on Iraq shows that President Bush’s war strategy is not working.
    “Attacks on U.S. forces are up, not down,” said Mr. Reid, who with Mrs. Pelosi last month capitulated to Mr. Bush’s demand for a war-funding bill without a troop-withdrawal timetable.

Attacks are up not down. You sure, Harry? Been to Iraq lately? Karl at Protein Wisdom says otherwise. And besides, the Washington Post tells us that the “surge” was just put in place this morning. So why would he say that attacks are up and not down all of a sudden evaluating a strategy that hasn’t even been fully deployed yet?

   Just 19 percent of voters nationwide had a favorable opinion of Mr. Reid in a Rasmussen Reports survey conducted last weekend — down from 26 percent a month ago and still lower than Mr. Bush’s 35 percent favorable rating. Congress’ job-approval rating also is tanking, down to a 23 percent in polls this week by NBC/Wall Street Journal and Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

So who does he think is going to approve of him? That other 5% of the hardcare Left that want immediate withdrawal from Iraq? It’s the surrender talk that got him down to that 19% in the first place. Who is advising him? Why is he trying to talk to Americans by going to Think Progress?

   Mr. Reid’s early return to the war debate signals to the party’s antiwar base that it still tops the agenda, a Democratic leadership aide said.
    “That’s what the base is demanding,” the aide said.

That’s not leadership – that’s pandering.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Media, Politics