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Georgia Young Republicans president Jason Shepherd informs us this morning that his panties are in a serious twist about some remarks by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC).

OUTRAGEOUS: Dems admit rooting for failure in Iraq

Balz asks Clyburn:

“What do Democrats do if General Petraeus comes in in September, and says, ‘This is working very, very well at this point. We would be foolish to back away from it’?”
Clyburn responds:

“Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no question about that.”

NO JIM, the big problem is a member of the House leadership…forget that fact…a MEMBER OF CONGRESS who likely has constituents serving in harms way, is actually saying that their failure is what’s needed to advance the Democrat Party!

Oh, pull ‘em out of the crack, Shep. Coming from a guy whose administration of choice has consistently, explicitly, and unapologetically used the constant inflammation of terror among its people (often through distortion of fact) as its primary method of attempting to maintain power, your outrage is just ridiculous, pathetic, and downright dishonest.

Clyburn was speaking about the Democratic strategy to attempt to force Bush to change from a stagnant strategy of “stay the course” to something closer to what the American people voted for last November, and if Petraeus comes to Congress with good news that the surge has worked, obviously the momentum for withdrawal — the lynchpin of the Democrats’ political strategy and the wave that carried them to Washington in November — would falter. That would thus be a “big problem” for the current legislative efforts to change Bush’s position; but then again, if Bush suddenly fell backwards over someone who wasn’t incompetent, that would be a good thing for all of us, and the political calculus would be moot.

For the record, all of like thirty seconds later Clyburn says, “None of us want to see a bad result in Iraq,” and that he’ll trust Petraeus’ assessment over President Bush’s blind assertions, but as we’ve seen lately, providing complete answers are not part of Republican strategery.

Sorry, Shep: once again, y’all are looking for weapons that just aren’t there.