Sunday, November 23, 2014

Democratic Problems

Democrats got beat in the mid-terms and the Republicans are now pretending they aren't so radical and they might be interested in legislating. This means they could have been legislating before, but only held off to create a stalemate and to make the president look bad. Now they have power and it's dangerous.

The first issue I've read about is a potentially new position regarding Afghanistan. I don't know that anything has changed to require the president to change his position (leaving Afghanistan completely by the end of the year), but the Republicans win Congress and suddenly there's discussion of leaving some thousand soldiers in Afghanistan for the indefinite future. Is this what the Republican electorate was voting to get? No. The Republicans said they were trying to stop president Obama and the electorate voted for that. But, here we are.

Democrats just got beat and now the president is (supposedly) considering a change of policy on Afghanistan. Isn't it enough we just got beat, but why should we also give the Republicans another big stick to beat us over the head. Why should we make it all so clear to the public that Democrats don't stand for anything for very long? Why should we care if Putin and other world leaders see our president as a vacillating nothing?

If we leave troops in Afghanistan it will only be written in the history books that Democrats don't know how to govern and President Obama was a failure. How else could they write it?

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