Hoe the Hard Row
Tonight President Bush (illegitimate) will be giving a speech in a desperate attempt to win over the public’s support to add/surge/escalate/increase/reinforce/inflate the number of US troops in Iraq. Currently Americans are polling at about 11% in favor of a troop increase which is significantly less than he’s had during the other terrible decisions he’s made in Iraq.
Why the poor support? Experts say it’s because the war is going poorly or that military commanders aren’t in favor of this move. But I disagree. The war has never gone well and the president has never had the support of the military. The problem he’s encountering is a new one and a far more dangerous one to his style of government. His problem is rhetorical.
President Bush (illegitimate) has done very well with “Stay the Course” but now that he’s forced to “Change the Course”, “Stay the Course” has proved a liability. Even the highly effective tactic of labeling enemies “Cut-and-Runners” is no longer effective when most Americans want the hell out of Iraq and “cutting” our losses before running away is not such a bad alternative to “Letting-More-American-Soldiers-Die-For-No-Reason”.
I have a solution to this unprecedented (in this administration) rhetorical lapse. And out of the good will of my heart I’m going to share it with President Bush (illegitimate) before he has to go in front of an angry American audience.
A new catch phrase: Hoe the Hard Row. That’s it. Simple and vague. It can never be wrong no matter how bad things get or even how good things get. It represents American work ethic and sticktoitiveness. In Iraq we need to Hoe the Hard Row and eventually things will get better as long as the Hard Row is Hoed.
As an added bonus this phrase also allows those who disagree with President Bush (illegitimate) to be called “Non-Hard-Row-Hoe-ers”. Didja see it? The cons get to call those who disagree WHORES!! It’s perfect.
There ya go dubs. All I ask in return is a little cottage somewhere on your property in Paraguay (preferably fenced off from Cheney’s hunting area).
Wednesday, January 10 12:01 pm
I’ve always said, “That’s a hard row to hoe”. You reckon he’d say it differently?
Wednesday, January 10 12:05 pm
He needs to make it his own. It would also be unbushy of him to use a colloquialism correctly.
Wednesday, January 10 12:29 pm
He would probably just end up in a row with his hard-on in ‘ho. But at least he is born-again. That way, Christians will be able to forgive him for his transgression.
Wednesday, January 10 12:31 pm
well put
Wednesday, January 10 6:46 pm
Klobuchar voters should be happy to know that she will be supporting the the troop increase with, well, her actual vote. All the while saying that it is a very difficult decision and she doesn’t support the war! I am already ready to vote out the Dems in two years, they seem to be lairs, or at least misrepresenter, just like the neo-cons…
Wednesday, January 10 6:56 pm
Seriously… can someone ban this guy?
/sarcasm
OK Now really seriously. She wouldn’t be voting for the surge she’d be voting for the money. Even if she voted against the money the troops could still be surged. I’m with you in that I think we should cut all military spending and pour it into education, research, social support, space programs and socialized medicine but voting against a request for cash when our kids are dying is a tough vote to cast. Especially when the cons can just give the soldiers cheaper rations and stop giving them better armor when they need it, then they turn around and say that anyone who voted against the money didn’t want our troops to have adequate armor–and since the admin gets to decide what to do with the money or lack-there-of that accusation would be correct.
Incidentally, who would you vote for? Independence? That’ll do you a lot of good.
Wednesday, January 10 7:25 pm
I guess it is more important to *not* have conservatives attack you then it is to vote for the platform that got you elected. It’s not like if she didn’t vote for it it wouldn’t pass, she is the junior senator from Minnesota for heavens gate… and it’s not like if it didn’t pass there wouldn’t be an alternative compromise (perhaps one with a surge and a time line, I would settle for that)… Wait, I didn’t vote for her. You guys suck…
Thursday, January 11 6:43 pm
Democrats suffer from an acute case of cognitive dissonance. They like to pretend they are radicals… that thay are smart… that they are right (even when they are Right)… but it is just usually not the case. so many supposedly “liberal” ideas are just FUD, followed up with votes for more troops and more of the same.
Saturday, January 13 6:37 pm
I don’t think many dems would call themselves radicals. The reason they’ve held congress (both) for nearly all of the last 50 years is not because they are radical but because they’re rational. Again, all that the congress controls is the money, not the troop levels. What the dems are running scared from is the media, and with good reason. The media controls our country right now and the media is under the control of a select few corporations–which is the inevitable result of the “free market” in action. We need more regulation of corps then a political party, be they dems or otherwise could actually work to better the country as opposed to trying to survive. You attack the dems for something they can’t control, and they are the only thing that has a chance at standing up against corruption and greed.
Saturday, January 13 6:38 pm
Also, I failed to mention that your idea that liberals consider themselves “radicals” is a direct result of your fox viewing–keep pretending it doesn’t affect you.
Monday, January 15 1:52 pm
> all that the congress controls is the money
They should be using the only power they have to do what their constituents want. I would argue that they have another power, the power of impeachment, which may be a the beast way to send a message that congress strongly disagrees with the president. It doesn’t even have to pass, just send a strong message that the majority of the people in this country disagree with this war and find it intolerably immoral.
> media is under the control of a select few corporations–which is the inevitable result of the “free marketâ€
Not if the government and the FCC are doing their jobs. To bad the dems in congress set up all the telecos and cable monopolies that are going to take scores of years to unravel. Not to mention cost us a lot of money until competition commoditizes their services (like what is happening to phones and cell phones, but not really cable yet)
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