Nancy Boyda Won’t Want to Read USA Today
From Red State
Freshman Rep. Nancy Boyda (D.-Kan.), one of the GOP’s top targets in 2008, couldn’t stomach hearing about progress in Iraq during House Armed Services Committee testimony last month. Frustrated and agitated by the remarks of retired Gen. Jack Keane, Boyda walked out of the hearing room only to return 10 minutes later to ridicule the architect of the surge strategy.Judging from Boyda’s behavior at last month’s hearing, she just might blow a gasket today if she reads the article in USA Today about the 50% decline in major attacks since the troop surge strategy began. (Linked by Pejman Yousefzadeh earlier this afternoon.)
Keane, the man Boyda berated in July, is quoted in the article, saying that U.S. forces have gained momentum from the enemy. Yet don’t expect Boyda to acknowledge the progress. Her spokeswoman said last month after the fiasco that she’s “frustrated with how the administration is handling the war.”
I suspect the real reason you won’t hear Democrats acknowledge progress in Iraq is that any good news is bad news for them. Their political success at home depends on failure in Iraq. That’s why Boyda didn’t want to hear about it in July and why she probably won’t acknowledge it now.
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