GOP Rep. Drake says Dems worse than ... Iraqi lawmakers

Now isn't this sweet.  My representative here in still-red Virginia Beach is something else.  This is the same lady who had Dick Cheney, George Bush, and Laura Bush swoop in for fundraisers (in addition to her $$ from Halliburton, Exxon Mobil, et al), and in return she voted for torture and unfailingly supports the Iraq War, by consistently shutting her brain down.  We in Virginia Beach like to call her "Tra La La" Thelma Drake because according to her all is well in Iraq, since every time she is treated to the "Dog and Pony" show in the Green Zone, she merely swallows what they tell her whole, without any independent inquiry.  It's almost funny, except when she gets nasty.  Like when she had Moveon.org protestors arrested.  Their crime?  Bringing a petition to her office in Virginia Beach opposing the surge.  Not the whole war, just the surge.  Not exactly a radical lefty position.  And now there is this, the biggest insult I have read since Mean Jean called Murtha a coward.
So here's how it went.  Thelma Drake goes to Iraq, talks to the military upper echelon, a few Green Zone Iraqis, who are protected by the military, and from what I hear from Iraqi bloggers traffic in "fake sugar-ass bullshit", and all is right in her tra la la world.  The surge is working, a Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq is just around the corner, and we're killing all the terrorists.  We have been documenting her silliness for a long time, but I have to say that the remarks Thelma made yesterday really took the cake.  Call it the mother of all tra la laness:

"We heard repeatedly that the surge is working," Drake said Wednesday, after returning from a week-long trip to the Middle East that included a day in Iraq.

"We are the ones on the offensive now. Al Qaeda is on the defensive. Iraqi security forces are truly standing up."

Okay, preposterous, but the usual GOP boiler plate talking points on Iraq.  Problem was the Democrats on the same trip as her had a different take, shall we call it the opposite take on the situation on the ground.  Kind of embarrassing for her.  So she decides not just to say she disagrees, but to make a comment so ridiculous, it really took my breath away:

Drake, in a separate interview, had little patience for that argument.

Iraqi lawmakers, she said, "have passed and signed into law more legislation than we have this year."

While progress may be slow, Drake said, when compared to promises made by Democrats in Congress, "They probably have a better track record."

Oh, really?  Wow, I had no idea the Democrats were that bad.  In the middle of a civil war, they do this?:

Iraqi parliament adjourns in blow to Bush

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament went into summer recess for a month on Monday despite failing to enact a series of laws that Washington sees as crucial to stabilizing the country and reconciling warring Iraqis.

Lawmakers said the government had yet to present them with any of the laws. The parliament had earlier signaled its intention to go into recess in August after cutting short its summer break that normally starts in July.

"We do not have anything to discuss in the parliament, no laws or constitutional amendments, nothing from the government. Differences between the political factions have delayed the laws," Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman told Reuters.

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A preliminary White House assessment earlier this month faulted Iraqi leaders for failing to enact the laws, but analysts say Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government -- a brittle coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds -- is paralyzed by infighting.

Ministers loyal to fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have pulled out of Maliki's government, while the biggest Sunni bloc in parliament, the Accordance Front, is threatening to do the same this week if certain demands are not met.

In other words, the inaction and ineptness of the Iraqi parliament has guaranteed that more of their countrymen will die, a stunning indictment of a political body.  Considering the fact that the White House has even admitted that the Iraqi legislature blows big time, wouldn't you think Tra la la Drake would have received the memo?  Maybe she did.  But her annoyance with and intense hate of the Democrats apparently colored even her White House approved mind, and she has now insulted the Democratic Congress.  She owes them an apology.  Period.

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