No Timeline, No Funding. No Excuses.

El Pollo Loco told the ‘Murkan people that things are just peachy in Iraq, that Anbar is progressing nicely, (even if his buddy, the Sheik, was blown up near his own home) that we have to give the Iraqi government more time to meet the benchmarks we’ve set (even though that’s what he said in March and again in July… all the while conveniently moving the goalposts since they can’t even manage to agree on what color the sky is).

But, because he’s such a nice guy, he’s going to start bringing some of the troops home. Of course, he failed to mention that the surge troops will be rotating out of Iraq whether he wanted it or not.

From the AP:

Bush said that 5,700 U.S. forces would be home by Christmas and that four brigades — for a total of at least 21,500 troops — would return by July, along with an undetermined number of support forces.

Which means, we went from 130,000 or so troops in January of this year to a current high of 162,000 and will “reduce” to a pre-surge 130,000 or so by July 2008.

Only in BushWorld is going back to where you started called “progress” and considered to be a “troop withdrawal” on par with that of the Democratic proposal which would have all troops (minus a residual 30-40,000) home by July 2008.

A Small Price?!

By now, we’re all so inured to the stupidity that rushes out of the average Republican mouth that most of us don’t even bother actually listening to them anymore. Occasionally the dumb comment forces us to pay attention to them – like Florida Rep. Bob Allen’s “I was afraid of the black guy so I offered to suck his willie in a desperate attempt to escape!” or Sen. Larry Craig’s “I have a wide stance…”

We shake our heads sadly and go back to ignoring them in order to preserve our own sanity. And then…

One of them goes and says something so incredibly stupid and derisive, and on national television no less, that – if life were fair – would result in them being dragged by horses into a football stadium, stripped naked in front of the jeering crowd, and then whipped with a cat ‘o nine tails, preferably one with spiked barbs on the end.

Yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Assholeville) opened his mouth and became that man.