There is not much I can add to Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp, the latest article by Ray McGovern.

I have heard the old saw about poker, “If you look around the table and cannot figure who the patsy is, then it is you.”

Perhaps the same is true for McChrystal’s clowns.  They looked around the table and actually thought someone else was the clown.

The Worcester T & G carried the AP story, Aid For Jobless Rejected – – GOP Blocks Plan To Extend Benefits.

Apparently the Republicans are doing everything they can to force a double dip recession so that they can win elections in November.

They thinly disguise their actions by the claim that they would cut off unemployment benefits because they are concerned over adding 0.3% to the federal debt.

Since when were our elected officials supposed to be more concerned with their own re-elections than they are about the good of the country?

Their very actions prove that they know the economy will recover if they give the Obama administration what it wants. Otherwise, they would do what the Democrats under Bush did. They gave President Bush just about everything he wanted. In the end his own poor policies are what sank him. At least the Democrats could claim they were giving the people what they seemed to have wanted when they elected George Bush.  I suppose they could also have claimed that though they thought it wouldn’t work, they were just giving Bush the chance to prove them wrong.

I wonder how many T & G readers will be able to recognize what is going on here.