White is black
Up is down.
Right is wrong.
Sen. James Webb of Virginia was on Fox News Sunday this morning and host Chris Wallace confronted him with the intellectual disconnect that I mentioned a week ago: It doesn't make sense to unanimously confirm Gen. David Petraeus for a fourth star and at the same time tout a meaningless nonbinding resolution castigating the plan he helped design and is tasked with implementing.
Webb: That's not an inconsistency in that. I voted for Gen. Petraeus and I don't agree with the whole lack of national strategy. This administration has not had a strategy. It has continued to focus on the military side rather than the diplomatic side.
[crosstalk]
Webb: There is not an inconsistency.
Wallace: Why not?
Webb: When the administration puts forward a general officer to fill a billet that exists . I will take a look at his qualification and see whether he is qualified to be a commander. That doesn't mean that I have to back a political strategy that impels him into motion.
Sorry, but that doesn't hold water. Petreaus' main qualification for the billet that he's being named to fill is the strategy he authored and is tasked with carrying out -- a strategy that the Democrats oppose. It's like voting for a president based on his resume and ignoring that you oppose every campaign promise that he's made.
Webb tries to make this process out to be nonpolitical, but at the highest levels the military is political -- otherwise the the Senate would have no role in confirming three- and four-star generals in the first place.
Webb is arguing that the Senate is little more than a rubber stamp at the same time that he's arguing the Senate is not a rubber stamp.
He can declare himself intellectually consistent all he likes, it doesn't make him so.
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It amazes me to listen to you Republican Lapdogs march in lock step involving anyone who thinks differently on the issues. it seems the first thing you do is go after a person and pin a derogitory label on a him or her.
The first time I met Jim Webb was early in his campaign for the Democractic nomination to run against senator George Allen. The first thing I discovered is that Jim Webb is not a politician. He is a man of deep conviction who really wants to make our country a better place for his and our future generations.
So when you try to twist his words about Gen Petreaus you just show where you are coming from not what his thoughts are about the issue