More on the Speech

The Caucus has a pretty good sum-up of the different reactions to the speech from the left and the right.

The part I think is the most interesting is a quote from a conservative site, Powerline Blog:

“The administration,” the site continued, “has bought itself a window of time, at least until the 2008 campaign heats up, to try to achieve discernible signs of progress. While the new strategies sound to me like good ideas — one wonders why some of them weren’t implemented some time ago — the more important factor, I think, is sheer persistence. The President will persist; let’s all hope and pray that he succeeds.”

What exactly does that mean, that the administration has bought itself a window of time? There's two years between the mid-terms and the next presidential election, so we don't have to care that we lost? I mean, that's it, isn't it? Public opinion is overwhelmingly against us, but let's see Congress stop us. We don't have to about-face now. We can make things worse as long as there's a chance that we could turn this around before we'll be held politically accountable. As long as we hold the White House, losses in Congress don't matter, public opinion doesn't matter... Nothing matters but the fact that we still hold a position of power and we're willing to use it to our own ends.

MyDD was right. This is tyranny. That post, by the way, is worth a read.