“SOME OF OUR ELECTED LEADERS have opposed this war all along. I disagreed with them, but I respected their willingness to take a consistent stand. Yet some Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force are now rewriting the past. They are playing politics with this issue and they are sending mixed signals to our troops and the enemy. And that’s irresponsible.”

With these words, President Bush captured the fundamental divide in today’s Democratic party. The divide is not between Democrats who are willing to wage a serious war against Islamofascist terrorism and those who are not–there aren’t enough elected Democrats of the first type to constitute a true faction. Rather, the divide is between Democrats who are willing to vote their semi-pacifist conscience and those who are not.