Red State Renegade

As you know, Democrats took both houses last November, but not out of any show of strength or leadership.

Americans simply wanted a desire for change after weariness with a misguided foreign policy, a war maiming and mangling our young soldiers, and an Iraq spiraling down the toilet bowl like a Dick Cheney turd after the Halliburton Chili Cook-Off.

Lately, news has centered on the efforts of Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats trying to pass a war spending bill that is contingent on success in some form or somehow limits our time in Iraq, and Bush vowing to veto any bill forcing accountability or imposing a withdrawal of troops.

Bush paints the idea of withdrawal as a surrender and ties the continued funding of the war effort to “supporting the troops,” while the Dems, so afraid to be painted as NOT supporting the troops, end up hog-tying themselves and ultimately doing nothing that will get our troops out.

Typical news reports sound something like this:

Democrats are trying to find a way to curtail Bush’s powers to fight “a war without end” and mollify their fiercely anti-war supporters, but still offer financial support needed by troops under fire in Iraq.

This is absolute hogwash and makes about as much sense as rubber toilet paper.

The bottom line is this: Congress has the power to end this war right this second. Since the war is fought not with normal budget money but with ‘emergency appropriations,’ Bush requires funding bills to be passed by congress to even continue the war. In other words, Congress flat-out controls the ability to wage this war and stop the war tomorrow.

This of course would be irresponsible, but the fact that they do have this power means they have the upper hand in their battle against King George and his vetoes.

So why not play hard ball?

Same old reason: They’re afraid to be painted as not supporting the troops. The only difference is that this time, the American people are with them, and the Dems are just too paralyzed to notice.