A note from TPM Reader ZG …
I don’t know if I am more angry or confused about this evening’s congressional proceedings and, in a sense the everything going on with the Republicans. They won the elections; am I crazy to think they should, I don’t know, do SOMETHING? What was the point of tonight’s little stunt? Who let Rep. Schmidt make her remarks? How could anyone defend them? I’m having problems seeing what the big picture is (what a victory for us would look like), but I feel that so many Republican “leaders” have forgotten that a big picture even exists! (Aside, I hate the exclamation point. I’ve always thought it to be a pointless punctuation mark, but I’ve finally found a use for it.)
I’d have to imagine that even the most ardent Bush supporters, and I’d hope that Bush and Co., would agree that things aren’t going perfectly in Iraq and hence, there’s room for improvement. I am in no way a military expert, so I have almost no clue about what our Iraq policy should be. I’m certain, however, that the strategy of “Let’s just say everything is going fine and maybe that will become true” is not the way to go. Seeing the way the government is currently operating makes me think the most hardcore Libertarians have a point. Why have a government if this is how they’re going to spend their time?
Quite apart from all the policy particulars, can’t you understand the exasperation?
