[lbo-talk] up-er-down?

[Tom Walker]

That's almost what I'm saying but with the twist that the advantage for 
the Repugs sort of depends on them making it deviously advantageous for 
the Dems equivocate -- a prisoners' dilemma set up. If they make the 
game too explicit, they take away the incentive for the Dems to play for 
the booby prize. Ultimately it's not about whether or not this hurts the 
Dems but whether it makes the scorched earth the Repugs create and 
inherit more governable. What I'm saying is the Republicans risk 
replicating in the House the "mission accomplished" in Baghdad... the 
occupation will be something else.

The Sandwichman

 >Problem is that it's hard to get the Dems to say what they actually

 >stand for and the Reps know that.