European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Page 17 opinion dems stupidly let gop turn Back clock on Iraq with each passing washing is turning into the land that time while the rest of the country is dealing with the Here and fied by president Ananna huf Angton Bush puny approval ratings and a new poll showing Rural voters turning against the oops handling of Iraq Beltway demo cratic dinosaurs Are act ing like its for Bush still has credibility on democrats still need to tread lightly in opposing the War for fear of alienating restate and swing and Iraq is still a the latest proof that tyrannosaurus Democrat is not an extinct species comes in the fossilized thinking of Stuart Edi Tor of the Rothenberg political writ ing in Roll the Cro Magnon pundit waxed ecstatic Over congressional democrats handling of the War funding spinning the dems capitulation As having played the Issue like and proclaiming from a purely political Point of democrats had their cake and ate it Rothenberge piece is so it might have been written by sopranos Cre Ator David but the screen abruptly going to Black would be preferable to a mindset that completely and totally and even gleefully buys into the Republican framing on the War that pushing to bring the troops Home is somehow not sup porting the this sclerotic framing is wrong on every level strategic and you want a snapshot of immorality in action look no further than this bloodless analysis of the ultimate political question of life and death As nothing More than a ques Tion of Why take a Chance alienating swing Rothenberg when the party already made its Point by sending the president a deadline Bill that he vetoed How about because a deadline Bill is the right Bill for the country and without it there will be hundreds More dead Young and a less Safe future for our children Rothenberg lauds the spineless positioning that led democrats to defeat in 2002 and 2004 the democratic House and Senate leaders wisely played things Safe by allowing a Bill to pass that Bush could memo to democrats inter ested in winning in 2008 from now until the next election do not use the words wisely and play things Safe in the same or or even the same but even putting morality aside and look ing at things just from what Rothenberg Calls a purely political Point of his analysis is deeply the truth is that while the pundit Cracy and the consulting class continue to search for electoral tree sure using badly outdated red state the country has Radi especially when it comes to and especially in Rural America which is no longer reliably in Bush beat Al Gore by 22 Points in Rural in Bush beat John Kerry by 19 Points among Rural but in a new 46 percent of Likely Rural voters said they preferred an unnamed democratic Candi Date for while 43 favored a generic and half of those surveyed said they supported congressional efforts to reduce troop Levels in whats support for congressional democrats dropped 10 Points following the War funding As Matt Stoller broke it Down the democrats lost 12 Points among independents and 18 Points among Liberal if you Are politically this was a terrible for insight into the psychology surround ing the Beltway conventional Wisdom on the i turned to Drew a pro Fessor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory and the author of the political a Brilliant new Book Ive been Reading Over the weekend that is set to be released later this in Westen of fers democrats a guide for using language to connect to the political which he believes leads voters to make choices based less on reason than on i emailed him Rothenberge column and asked him what he if this is what a Stradivarius sounds he wrote id hate to hear a broken behind Rothenberge analysis like the analysis of the risk averse pollster consultants who have been running democratic candidates into the electoral ground for a decade is the Assumption that voters hear the words democrats say but dont pick up the met message there conveying with their actions that there too frightened to do and say what they democrats can Tell voters that there Strong on National Securi but the Public can see with its own eyes what dems do when confronted with Daggres if voters dont Trust democrats with National theres nothing the matter with kansans Are seeing them Clear they know cowardice when they see and democrats have repeatedly displayed cowardice for a the irony is that every time they Haven like when they started to Challenge Bush on his equation of the Iraq War with the War on terror the Public has Westen told dont like poll Ste driven politics or and with Good reason they want to know what their leaders values because if they know their they know How there Likely to represent them not just on today but on about which we May have no inkling if the Public associates principles and values with the its time democrats Start showing voters that theres another set of principles and values out there lets make sure that All Capitol Hill Cave men read Drew westerns and take it to with America stuck in the iraqi tar the last thing we need is for democrats to devolve into invertebrates and slither Back into the Sticky muck from which they Only recently Bush policy no drug smuggler left behind Ann Coulter president Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was Given in Al Bania that he immediately gave All 3 million albanians american Citi provided they learn the offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most albanians Haven broken any Bush keeps claiming Hes dying to enforce the but he just cant do it unless we immediately Grant amnesty to 12 million illegal i wonder if that worked on Laura Bush Laura its time you quit George lets discuss it Over How about Bush enforce the Border and then Well discuss his amnesty plan he assures us that granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants already Here wont inspire millions More to run across the Border because Hes going to put infrared lights at the Border that a what precisely will infrared lights do again this is worse than those fake cameras they sell at hardware stores to make it look like you have cameras outside your we still need something or someone a Wall or a Border patrol agent to Stop the mexicans illegally Cross ing the Border As we watch them on the Infra red Bush wont build a Wall and he keeps prosecuting Law enforcement officers who Stop illegal Border but Trust him hell get right on that Border enforcement Busi Ness As soon As we Grant amnesty to 12 Mil lion illegal Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean Are normally the sort of mexican americans Bush would tear up at while promoting am Nesty for illegal both served in the military and Are la abiding Citi Treyve been risking their lives As Bor Der patrol agents for Ramos was nominated for Border patrol agent of the year in his nomination received a major setback when the Bush administration decided to put him in prison in Ramos and Compean Are now serving More than 10 years apiece in solitary confine ment for chasing a drug running illegal alien Back to Bush attorney Johnny gave immunity to a mexican drug dealer hauling a million dollars Worth of drugs across the Border so that the drug dealer could testify against two Border patrol agents who shot him in the the Border patrol agents were presumed guilty of an unlawful shooting because they neglected to fill out the proper for busting a Cap in the butt of a drug courier crossing the Border illegally who was so mortally wounded that he proceeded to scamper Back to Mexico they were sup posed to spend five hours filling out paper this is what the Bush administration Means when it talks about a As prosecutor Debra Kanof you have to report any discharge of a Kanof also says the Bor Der patrol Pursuit policy prohibits the Pur suit of the Oft heard warning of the Border agent in hot Stop or do absolutely can we apply this Rule to meter maids and tax col lectors at least now Border agents will be Able to watch the illegal aliens they cant Pur sue on infrared cameras but wait that not All the Border patrol agents also exceeded the Speed theres a whispering Campaign suggesting that Ramos and Compean failed to use their turn As i understand youre also supposed to not Cross the Border illegally from Mexico with a Van full of but the Bush administration has no interest in enforcing those ninety eight percent of illegal aliens captured crossing the Border illegally Are not those dogs Are doing the Job american drugs just wont do in addition to giving the illegal alien drug smuggler full immunity to testify against Border patrol the government gave him taxpayer funded medical care for his buttocks an unconditional Bor de crossing the right to sue the for civil rights and a Gap gift the drug runner is also on the Short list to replace attorney general Alberto Hes now suing the for but the Bush administration is hoping to bargain him Down to that Borde crossing card came in Handy when the winged illegal alien brought in an other Load of drugs a Short eight months later for which he has still not been nearly two years who does he think he is William Jefferson Bush pal Sutton keeps defending his Deci Sion to prosecute Border patrol agents for paperwork rather than an illegal alien for drug on the grounds that the drug dealer has not been charged with any lets whose Job is it to charge that mexican drug runner with a crime i believe that would be Johnny Sutton i didst realize living in the shadows meant in the shadows of Palm Trees around the pools at taxpayer funded illegal aliens might want to rethink Bush amnesty the Only hispanics that Bush seems to prosecute Are the ones who Are la abiding f sickly City by Scott Stantis