Saturday, December 16, 2006
Victory is Ours
201k and Maureen Dowd are on the same page:
In any event, as has been pointed out across the web, what Bush is inching towards isn't "doubling down" -- that's what you do when you're ahead. This new gambit is "double or nothing". That's when you're losing and buy another hand or roll of the dice by offering to double your loss.
They should be corrected on their misnomer. Americans need to see the word "nothing" in there -- it'll help ease the shock down the line.
- The Democrats thought that when they had won the election, they won the debate on the war and they had W. cornered. But the president is leaning toward surging over the Democrats, voters, Baker and the Bush 41 crowd and some of his own commanders.
W. seems gratified by the idea that rather than having his ears boxed by his father's best friend, he's going to go down swinging, or double down, in the metaphor du jour, on his macho bet in Iraq. He's reading about Harry Truman and casting himself as a feisty Truman, but he's heading toward late L.B.J. The White House budget office is studying how much it will cost to finance The Surge, an infusion of 20,000 to 50,000 troops into Baghdad to make one last try at "victory."
In any event, as has been pointed out across the web, what Bush is inching towards isn't "doubling down" -- that's what you do when you're ahead. This new gambit is "double or nothing". That's when you're losing and buy another hand or roll of the dice by offering to double your loss.
They should be corrected on their misnomer. Americans need to see the word "nothing" in there -- it'll help ease the shock down the line.
