The GOP was cheering their nominees and dancing in their pearl necklaces and designer suits and $600 imported shoes as though it was 1999. Remember 1999? After 8 years of record economic growth and job creation and competent foreign policy. 8 years ago we could dance around and not worry about defense and the economy because those issues were all on improving tracks.

It's not 1999. Yesterday, while the GOP danced, the market fell 344 points. The jobless rate just grew to 6.1%, indicating deeper problems with the economy than just a few outlying sectors.

And the Pentagon is warning that the troop drawdown in Iraq must be delayed or we will lose all the supposed gains of the "surge." Moreover, the Pentagon says the needed build-up Afghanistan will have to wait.

Here's what our ignorant public doesn't understand about the surge. It grossly weakened our ability to conduct both Afghanistan and Iraq simultaneously. Because Bush is a raging idiot, we can't get coalition partners to help, as no allied nation can withstand the domestic repercussions of supporting a Bush fiasco, even if it has some legitimacy like Afghanistan.

So we are left responsible for the entire force in Iraq and a majority of the coalition in Afghanistan, and we blew our reserves on the surge. There are no more troops to continue those force levels.

And the surge didn't work, as the MSM and everyone else would like to believe. All it did was postpone Iraqis from taking responsibility for their own security, and push AQI to hide more effectively in the population while they've targeted key leaders more precisely so they don't alienate the population as much.

Bottom line: It's not 1999. Our economy can't support $10 billion a week in Iraq, and our military can't solve the problems in Iraq...and because of the surge we can't help Afghanistan either.

The GOP spent this decade working its way from postmodern to Neo-Victorian, and is now well on its way to Neo-Medieval. Note, if you will, their newly-minted armies of mercenaries, torturers, tax-farmers, slave-traders, and crusaders, and its obsession with establishing religion.

my dig on Harry Reid. . .party like it's 1899.

in Nurnberg.
The last two GOP conventions bear much more than just a slight resemblance to that infamous rally!

All that powerful lock-step chanting last night! USA USA. rising into a crescendo and then stopping abruptly ... where will this all end?

I like you ,too ,much personally,ellen, too much to say anytthing about this but.,....

ah...

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nah ....................don't think we're seeing the re rise of Hilter with McCain/Palin ticket.

;-)

Oh, I agree about A.H. (can't say his name) vs McCain/Palin ....

Bush is another story though, he tried ......

I was thinking of the crowds, the masses of delegates chanting all in unison ..... last time too, 2004. What if they unleashed all the power and anger and went on a rampage?

Thanks for sparing me a good lashing! ;-) ;-) (one for each convention) ;-)

yeah...Bush is another story.....and Rumsfeld who McCain excoriated for his handling of the Iraq invasion.

Oh elections are brutal....they really are so fraught with drama on all sides.

I really deep down think the powers that be know this already..they have sooooo much invested on us little people fighting amongst ourselves..

then no one is really watching the foxes and chicken coops..of what they are ALL doing.

~LAM