2008 A Responsible Plan to Zzzzzz…..
posted by on March 17 at 11:08 AM
Ok, this is a pretty hot campaign strategy from Darcy Burner—the suburban Seattle Democrat who’s trying to unseat Rep. Dave Reichert (R-8).
She’s rounded up a slate of Democratic challengers around the country, and she’s heading up a press conference with them today in D.C. to unveil their collective legislative agenda concerning Iraq. And by “Iraq,” she means it in the broadest terms to frame an agenda that’s a rejoinder to President Bush’s whole “War on Terror.”
So, putting a lasso around the ugly signposts of Bush’s transgressions—in addition to unveiling a responsible withdrawal plan—Burner is also going to lay out her ideas for Congressional plans to: restore habeas corpus, put limits on Presidential signing statements; stop warrantless wiretaps; stop torture; and stop outsourcing to private military contractors.
Burner and her crew of Democratic hopefuls will release their 20-page plan today at 5:30 in DC.
The agenda isn’t new, but I think she’s smart to repackage it in one document being advocated by a slate of Democratic challengers.
I do think, though, that she needs to give it a better name. Right now, she’s got: “A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq.”
Speak for yourself. Everything you write is ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzx5000.
Maybe, "How to stop fucking the dog and get on with the business of being the greatest country in the world, not a bunch of retarded jackasses" ?
How about "Iraq Five Year Plan"?
It's been five years - five years of bleeding trillions of US tax dollars, with nothing to show for it but blood, tears, and lies.
Who is this Darcy Burner, of whom you speak?
A.R.P.E.W.I. ?
I think, perhaps, she ought to make it sound as if the public were spitting out something that left a horrid taste in our collective mouths...
Plan To End War in Iraq Expiditiously, perhaps?
PTEWIE
Her plan's name undercuts the very idea she's trying to promote. Qualifying her plan by calling it responsible implies that most advocates for leaving Iraq are irresponsible. Otherwise, the title would simply be redundant.
Hope for the best, but frankly I don't expect much. When she says she will "convert our current military involvement in Iraq into a comprehensive political, diplomatic and economic effort to assist the Iraqi people through a difficult transition," that sounds suspiciously like a kinder, gentler occupation to me.
By the way, if this is really a plan that's critical of the War on Terror, then I assume we'll be leaving Afghanistan soon? Ending the practice of extraordinary rendition? Closing Guantanamo? And of course she's going to be critical of the $700 billion military budget, right?...
I nominate "Contract With America."
@7 Funny, I was thinking the same as I read @6.
"She’s rounded up a slate of Democratic challengers around the country, and she’s heading up a press conference with them today in D.C. to unveil their collective legislative agenda concerning Iraq."
If only the Democrats controlled Congress... oh wait. They do.
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