Jane Hamsher has a good piece up at FDL contrasting Russ Feingold--who thinks the lesson of the 2006 election was that Americans want us out of Iraq now--with Democratic strategists who peaked a decade ago and who think the lesson of 2006 was to pursue pointless compromises to drag the war out until 2008 for maximum political effect.
A Democratic Party that keeps the Iraq war going simply for the sake of short-term electoral advantage is no better for America than a Republican Party that keeps the Iraq war going for the sake of short-term electoral advantage.
A Democratic Party that can't figure out how to wind down the war in Iraq while keeping its Congressional edge and capturing the White House in the bargain--when two-thirds of independents, 83 percent of Democrats, and 45 percent of Republicans want Congress to reduce funds allocated to the war --evidently isn't as bright as we thought they were when we voted them in last time.
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