Are congressional Democrats starting to wise up? After the Democrats’ 41 useless Iraq bills, the Politico reports:
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Democrats are starting to realize that Iraq is a losing situation…for them. They can’t ignore the undeniable progress, but they don’t want to ignore their left-wing supporters who are calling for immediate withdrawal. Captain Ed says, “Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have made themselves absurd on this issue. Just from a purely political point of view, one can only promise something a small number of times without delivering on it without losing all credibility.” Abe Greenwald at Contentions adds, “In light of the successful U.S. troop surge in Iraq, the word withdrawal may be heading for the same trash bin that contains those other dead letters exit strategy and civil war. Democratic lawmakers, made hypocrites by their own rhetoric, now find themselves funding the war they’d declared lost, and doing so more-or-less unconditionally.” Jules Crittenden and Michelle Malkin have more good commentary. So, the Democrats are in a truly losing situation. What does this mean for 2008? Instapundit points us to a post from Don Surber, who spells it out quite clearly: “The War is twice as popular as Congress.”
