Pity Poor Nancy
By Case Wagenvoord
03 December, 2009
Countercurrents.org
He has spoken. He wants an additional 30,000 troops at an additional cost of $30 billion. Now the burden is on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who has to get her charges to vote the money for Obama’s war.
We must pity poor Nancy. It’s hard work getting her spineless charges to vote against their principles. ‘Tis a task she describes as a “heavy lift.” But, by God, this true, blue liberal from San Francisco does her damndest to make sure House doves act like hawks whenever Obama comes begging for more money to fund his Afghan enterprise.
Pelosi understands the key to acquiring power: follow the dictates of your corporate handlers and contributors and not the dictates of your conscience. She even describes how this works:
“You have to go to somebody who is totally, completely, entirely opposed to war funding, and you need to have them vote on it. And you don’t even want to vote for it yourself.
O, the burdens of leadership! It’s hard work strong arming your underlings to violate their principles. But, Pelosi has always been a strong role model as she demonstrated when she informed the world that impeachment was off the table. In spite of this, the good liberals of San Francisco reelected her to another term in the House in a landslide victory.
It’s not many people who would be so willing to fight for a spineless stance. But Pelosi understands that the Democratic Party is basically a subsidiary of the Republican Party, which, in turn, is a subsidiary of K Street. And if K Street wants a war, there will be a war, and Congress’s battle cry will be, “Damn our principles! Full speed ahead.”
Obama, in his speech at West Point, assured the American people that the end is in sight. Hell, with 100,000 troops chasing down 100 member of al Qaeda, the end has to be in sight. Right?
This is another way of saying he sees the light at the end of the tunnel, which he won’t say because to say it would be to stir up memories of the light at the end of the tunnel we saw in Vietnam just before we were booted out.
So, Pelosi will twist arms and make sure her underlings vote more money for another war we probably won’t win. But then, we must remember that the object of war is no longer victory. Rather, it is to continue to fund our corporate military machine because our economy is so addicted to military spending that it would go into a painful withdrawal were said spending to end. After all, we have to make up for the moribund consumer spending that once made up seventy percent of our GDP.
I mean, my God!, the “Vietnam syndrome” led to our wholesale slaughter of the people of Iraq. Who knows what an “Afghanistan syndrome” would lead to.
Case Wagenvoord blogs at www.belacquajones.blogspot.com and welcomes comments at [email protected]
