A Whopper With Extra Bull
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. -- Groucho Marx
These pearls of wisdom from Groucho Marx have been the modus operandi of politicians the world over. Some do a respectable job at it, while others are, shall we say, less graceful. Consider the plight of hapless Harry Reid. Speaking of the war in Iraq in 2007, Senator Reid said, “I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything,…" Judging from the course of the war since 2007 it would seem that poor Harry suffers from an aggravated case of premature capitulation. So, when the Las Vegas Review-Journal asked the Reid campaign about his 2007 statement, the reply came back:
…He was simply pointing out what our military leaders, including Gen. Petraeus, had been saying for months: that we could not win by staying the course; the war needed to be won diplomatically, politically, and economically…
Ah! So that’s it! By saying that the surge was a failure, Reid was actually helping the surge succeed, and helping General Petraeus to boot! Get it? What a clever guy! We just didn’t understand it back then, ignorant boobs that we are. It was good of the Senator to clarify the issue some three years after the fact.
I wonder if General Petraeus was in on it too? Prior to the General’s senate testimony, CNN asked Senator Reid if he would believe General Petraeus were he to testify that progress was being made in Iraq. Reid’s answer? "No, I don't believe him, because it's not happening." No doubt, Reid was lending a hand to the General yet again, in some clever fashion that he will explain to us when he surmises that our dulled intellects can handle it.
In the meantime, Reid might consider the words of Ambrose Bierce: “The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.”
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May '10
Re: A Whopper With Extra Bull
"Premature capitulation?!?!?" The English language does not have the words to describe the genius of that phrase. If it doesn't appear in at least one Sharon Angle commercial and a run of bumper stickers, she will have committed political malpractice.
May '10
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Speaking of premature capitulation, Dave, I trust you are enjoying the thrashing your Bayou Bengals are dealing to my bete noir, the Tar Heels.
Jun '10
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T’was a senator name o’ Reid
Who once in a fevered screed
Did declare the Iraqi war lost
Without first calculating the cost
Now his seat he likely must concede
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Matthew, it came to me during half-time.
May '10
Re: A Whopper With Extra Bull
How about Fareed Zakaria in the latest Newsweek: I think we over-reacted to 9/11.
Three-thousand dead in one day....
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EJHill: How about Fareed Zakaria in the latest Newsweek: I think we over-reacted to 9/11.
Three-thousand dead in one day.... · Sep 4 at 8:30pm
I guess we were pretty rash after Pearl Harbor too, eh?
Jul '10
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How many people, other than Joe Klein and Frank Rich, were won over by Reid's latest insane contortion?
Isn't it ironic that in the movies, the evil characters all look like Stone-Cold-Steve Austin, but in real life, the truly evil people are usually wussy little non-entities like Reid, Paul Krugman or Barack Obama? Lenin weighed what? 90 pounds, dripping wet?
Extending the metaphor, evil women in films are usually femmes-fatalle, bursting out of their skin-tight rubber apparel. While in real life, we get Barbara Murkowski, Rosa DeLauro and Helen Thomas
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Dave Carter
EJHill: How about Fareed Zakaria in the latest Newsweek: I think we over-reacted to 9/11.
Three-thousand dead in one day.... · Sep 4 at 8:30pm
I guess we were pretty rash after Pearl Harbor too, eh? · Sep 4 at 8:42pm
This is all well worth its own conversation -- here.