AP has a story headlined Kerry and Feingold form alliance on Iraq. What I find humorous in this story is the way it tries to make it sound as if this is the great convergence of two polar opposites.
One epitomizes the Washington political establishment as the Democratic Party’s most recent presidential nominee. The other is the quintessential Democratic outsider, proud to be the only senator to vote against the USA Patriot Act.
Wow. They are just oil and. . .well. . .some other kind of oil. So, what has this “unlikely” duo joined forces to support?
Notwithstanding their different histories, Sens. John Kerry and Russ Feingold joined forces last week to push a proposal that would have required troops to leave Iraq by July of next year. And they may soon have something else in common: Both are considering presidential races in 2008.
Ahhh. The Surrender Monkey position.
Using the new mantra of the left, “Every loss can be a moral victory,” Sen. Feingold explains their most recent “victory.”
While the Senate defeated, on a 60-39 vote, a nonbinding resolution that would have urged the administration to start withdrawing troops by year’s end, the Feingold-Kerry proposal went down on an 86-13 vote. By Feingold’s standard, that was progress.
“You know, I was the only one in this position a year ago,” he said. “Now you have 13 senators, including our presidential standard-bearer, John Kerry.”
You’ve gotta love that kind of progress. Ann Marie Hauser, a spokeswoman for the
Republican National Committee, does.
“Whether it’s John Kerry’s indecisiveness or Russ Feingold’s extremism, Democrats across the board support an approach that results in surrendering to our enemy,” Hauser said. “But as 2008 looms, it is interesting to watch these two senators trip over each other as they rush to the far left of their party.”
Kerry and Feingold — Destined to go down in history like other great opposites that came together. Like peanut butter and jelly peanut butter, fire and ice fire, head and tails heads, or yin and yang yin.
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