Are you in need of a good laugh? Go check out William Kristol's column in today's New York Times.
Kristol imagines a President McCain mocking the media for leaving his campaign for dead and then reveling in his brilliant campaign strategy to run against the Do Nothing Congress.
Yep folks, that's right. Kristol sees McCain winning the White House by running against Congress.
In 1948, a Republican Congress, which had taken power two years before with great expectations after a decade and a half of Democratic control, had become unpopular. Harry Truman lambasted it as a no-good, do-nothing Congress — and he rode that assault to the White House. We’ll soon start hearing more from McCain about the deficiencies of today’s surge-opposing, drilling-blocking, earmark-loving Congress.
So I ask you, is Kristol high on something?
Other than planting an oil rig on every open space and along every coastline in America, what exactly has Congress done that McCain wasn't already for?
Continuing to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Check
Allowing the surge without Congressional meddling? Check
Defeating Sen. Webb's troop deployment amendment giving combat troops as much time at home as they spent in deployment before redeployment? Check
Passing the FISA Amendment Act giving retroactive immunity to the telecom companies for their complicity in Bush's illegal wiretapping? Check
I can hear McCain now, "Damn that Congress for passing my agenda!"
Kristol sees how unpopular Congress is right now, quoting their dismal 9% approval rating. What Kristol doesn't get is that the 9% approval rating is based in part on a lot of the policies McCain is advocating.
But the Democrats in Congress did buck McCain's agenda. They voted to update the GI Bill and to increase funding for the VA to take care of our returning soldiers.
I guess that's something to run on, right? Democrats hate veterans.
So let's all be afraid of Obama for going overseas and inspiring the rest of the world to believe in the United States again.
Let's all be afraid that Obama represents the hope that our government will truly represent our will again.
And let's all be afraid that the rich neighbors of Mr. Kristol are as repulsed by the idea of McCain as President as the rest of us are.
Yes, Mr. Kristol. Be afraid, indeed.
h/t Karl Rover - This is you on Kristol Myth