Sunday, June 18, 2006
Murtha, Prime Time
Ann Althouse has thoughts.
Democratic congressman John Murtha, the administrations most audible critic of the war in Iraq, was interviewed by host Tim Russert of "Meet the Press" today, and the display was just embarrassing. Murtha's comments failed to make even grammatical sense most of the time, let alone logical sense. Try reading the transcript, it's like grading kindergarten papers in an English as a Second language class.
Getting to the real issue however, which will be nothing that Ann hasn't pointed out in her post, Murtha had an opportunity to set things straight for his party. He had an opportunity to build a responsible and coherent platform on which fellow party members could have built successful campaigns running up to the November elections.
Basically he had every opportunity to not look and act like an aggressive, bumbling idiot.
Blew that one.
If I were a democrat I would be a little upset that a public figure and decorated war veteran like Murtha, who has been able to raise such a ruckus over the war in recent months, wasn't able to present a strong and willful argument. It didn't even need to be a very good argument, it only needed to make a little sense and not be outright dangerous. If only he could have concisely stated his position with strength as a leader, his party would have backed him.
Now I have to wonder where he will find his future support, because I don't think it will be coming as freely as it has in the past. At least I hope it doesn't.
Democratic congressman John Murtha, the administrations most audible critic of the war in Iraq, was interviewed by host Tim Russert of "Meet the Press" today, and the display was just embarrassing. Murtha's comments failed to make even grammatical sense most of the time, let alone logical sense. Try reading the transcript, it's like grading kindergarten papers in an English as a Second language class.
Getting to the real issue however, which will be nothing that Ann hasn't pointed out in her post, Murtha had an opportunity to set things straight for his party. He had an opportunity to build a responsible and coherent platform on which fellow party members could have built successful campaigns running up to the November elections.
Basically he had every opportunity to not look and act like an aggressive, bumbling idiot.
Blew that one.
If I were a democrat I would be a little upset that a public figure and decorated war veteran like Murtha, who has been able to raise such a ruckus over the war in recent months, wasn't able to present a strong and willful argument. It didn't even need to be a very good argument, it only needed to make a little sense and not be outright dangerous. If only he could have concisely stated his position with strength as a leader, his party would have backed him.
Now I have to wonder where he will find his future support, because I don't think it will be coming as freely as it has in the past. At least I hope it doesn't.
