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Thursday, June 08, 2006
First, the good stuff. Zarqawi's passing is a real positive in the War on Terror because it points to one of two scenarios:
1) Our intelligence is getting good enough we can pull off this sort of thing.
or
2) Our opposition is fracturing enough that it's easier to get or buy information.
The choices, as I see it, are that either we are figuring this out or the other side is cracking up. Either way, for the man the world saw as Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq to be extinguished cannot be spun other than as evidence that the West isn't doing as poorly as news reports would have us believe.
Now, the bad stuff. I see Republican Jerry Lewis's stepdaughter has made some good money from folks who made 11.7 million off his earmarks. Now we know why the GOP defended Democrat William Jefferson as a fellow legislator instead of throwing him to the wolves. The question isn't whether the Lewis case involves the blatant illegalities present in the Jefferson case. The question is why a party that regained Congressional power as reformers allowed itself to be put in this position.
I started this year reluctantly supporting the GOP - but only over the War on Terror. I suppose I shall continue supporting the GOP over the War on Terror. But as my fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism duke it out, it's increasingly hard not to root against both of them. If the Democrats were smart enough to realize the existence of people like me, they'd be remaking themselves into a tough on terror party. There are votes out there that are up for grabs.
In the meantime, my new ideal candidate: social liberal, fiscal conservative, firm on the war on terror... and a childless widow or widower!
Or is it too much to expect that we the people only get to choose which people's friends and family will live well at our expense?
posted by gbarto at 5:27 PM
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