I'm not sure what "we won," but GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell seems to think that the fact that French president Nicolas Sarkozy jogs is indicative of some great victory. Hmm. I can think of better evidence of a great American victory: catching Osama. But then again, I don't claim to understand the far-right that controls today's Republican party. I'm sure "jogging" is just as important as catching the guy who murdered nearly 3,000 innocent souls.
And as an aside, as I wrote the other day, what an incredibly rude and un-statesmanlike speech to give only days after the French president visited the United States as George Bush's guest. The Republicans truly aren't ready for the world stage. Here's a snippet:
“Well, I can tell you that in the Senate it seems as though the other side is still looking to Old Europe for answers. In one of the great political ironies of our time, the new Majority in Congress seems intent on taking America down the path of bigger government and higher taxes just as Europe is frantically trying to steer themselves away from it. These guys want to turn the United States into France when even the French are beginning to have second thoughts.
“Well, as far as I’m concerned, when the French President prides himself on being a tax-cutter, jogs around Paris in an NYPD t-shirt, and spends his summer vacationing on a lake in New Hampshire, it can only mean one thing: we won. But the only people who don’t seem to have gotten the memo just took over the House and the Senate. For the last seven months, Republicans have been fighting off a raft of proposals that seem better suited to The Hague than The Heartland.
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