Order of Battle

When Karl Rove left the White House, many short-sighted Democrats thought the architect of their hell was gone. I think they would have been better off if he remained - now he he has a free hand with no need for Presidential restraint. In the WSJ he outlines a littany of failures from the Democrat controlled congress:

"Democrats criticized Congress for dragging its feet on the budget and pledged that they would do better. Instead, they did worse. The new fiscal year started Oct. 1--five weeks ago--but Democrats have yet to send the president a single annual appropriations bill."

"...all their talk about "fiscal discipline" is just that--talk. They're proposing to spend $205 billion more than the president has proposed over the next five years."

"Let's also be clear about what it means to roll back the president's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts...- Every income-tax payer will pay more as all tax rates rise.
- Families will pay $500 more per child as they lose the child tax credit.
- Taxes on small businesses would go up by an average of about $4,000.
- Retirees will pay higher taxes on investment retirement income.
- And now we have the $1 trillion tax increase proposed as "tax reform" by
the Democrats' chief tax writer last month."

"Beholden to MoveOn.org and other left-wing groups..."

"After promising on the campaign trail to "support our troops," Democrats tried to cut off funding for our military while our soldiers and Marines are under fire from the enemy."

"Their presidential candidates fell all over each other in a recent debate to pledge an end to the Terrorist Surveillance Program."

They "have launched more than 400 investigations and made more than 675
requests for documents, interviews or testimony"

" refused a bipartisan compromise on an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program"

Think Karl Rove is compiling anecdotes for his memoirs?

The Democratic victory in 2006 was narrow. They won the House by 85,961 votes out of over 80 million cast and the Senate by a mere 3,562 out of over 62 million cast. A party that wins control by that narrow margin can quickly see its fortunes reversed when it fails to act responsibly, fails to fulfill its promises, and fails to lead.

Looks more like a battle plan.

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 9, 2007