A couple of articles today got me thinking about the forthcoming midterm elections. You know, the ones where Republicans are going to be turned out from DC in droves and the newly Democratic House and Senate will be investigatin’ and

Today we have a war, but aside from gas prices inflation is not high and no one is waiting in line to pay for gas. If the pump price drops below $2.50 by November the GOP is fairly secure.

People can disagree about the efficacy of pre emptive war. But to belittle or even fail to acknowledge that we are at war with Islamism, the left not only deligitimzes the war but shunts 9/11 to the background as if that date didn’t happen.

After all, since most Democrats do not believe we are at war in the first place, (seeing the issue of national security a political weakness) they wish to make it virtually impossible for any future President to use force except as a response to an attack – say a nuke detonated in New York City. What good any kind of response would be at that point, the Democrats refuse to say.

No offense, Rick, but that is a cheap shot.

The issue of Bush’s pre-emptive war was extremely dangerous and a change of policy for the U.S. which had brought a lot of hazards with it. The fact that nothing was uncovered in Iraq which proved to be of any danger to us destroyed our credibility. More than once I said this was going to be a problem if and when we dealt with a country who truly WAS a hazard (Iran). That president is a lunatic with the financial resources to bankroll a nuclear program. But look where we are now. We start screaming war and we look like the boy who cried wolf. On top of which the insinuation that it was done just to get at Saddams’ oil is ringing loud and clear in Europe and the Middle East.

As things stand now, we really DO have to be careful how we use force now. The soldiers are getting tired, and right now there is no end in sight, so what soldiers will we use to conduct this war? We will need to ultimately replace a lot of military equipment that will be used up by the time the Iraq campaign ends> This is an extremely expensive financial situations that will only feed an already obscene deficit. Then there is the issue that, in the world’s eye, we are now no longer trusted like we once were. Bush didn’t just spend is own political capital with this war, he spent ours.

I am sorry but right now, we are starting to tread water as a country and a person would have to be blind not to see it.

http://www.anklebitingpundits.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3546

We have seen the Republicans do their best to lose the 2006 mid-term elections with pork barrel spending, ignoring their base on immigration enforcement, an inability to communicate effectively on the war. Polls show that a …