EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:12 am Post subject: Funding: Hostage Situation |
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Hostage Situation
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There are two ways to describe the confrontation between Congress and the Bush administration over funding for the Iraq surge. You can pretend that it�s a normal political dispute. Or you can see it for what it really is: a hostage situation, in which a beleaguered President Bush, barricaded in the White House, is threatening dire consequences for innocent bystanders � the troops � if his demands aren�t met.
If this were a normal political dispute, Democrats in Congress would clearly hold the upper hand: by a huge margin, Americans say they want a timetable for withdrawal, and by a large margin they also say they trust Congress, not Mr. Bush, to do a better job handling the situation in Iraq.
But this isn�t a normal political dispute. Mr. Bush isn�t really trying to win the argument on the merits. He�s just betting that the people outside the barricade care more than he does about the fate of those innocent bystanders. |
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