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Originally posted by bilmore
You don't understand. Had the Bush admin acted solely on ideology, and not been concerned with political acceptability and compromise, there would be no abortions, we'd be in Syria, my SUV would be sipping Alaskan gasoline, and Ty would be in jail. There are no "sole" drivers. There are drivers.
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You don't understand.
We've receded from your original snark about Dems being the ones responsible ("Wonder why Bush didn't put more troops into the fight? Because the D's would have had an effin' fit if he had.") to the argument that all Presidential decisions -- down to whether LBJ should fart in the Residence, or wait until he gets to the Oval -- are imbued with political calculus, and therefore political pressures are one of the miasma of factors involved in THIS decision too, and why aren't you understanding this?
Yeah, I understand this point. It's watered down to the stage where it's meaningless, other than an opportunity for you to vent about reactionary, sissified Democrats. But I understand it.
