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The Dems: Big Babies
Given that the Dems were so focused on losing in Iraq this year, it is appropo that at the end of the day it is they who have been dubbed the losers:
Dems Still Trumped by Bush in 2007
By LAURIE KELLMAN – 16 hours agoWASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a painful irony for Democrats: In the space of a year, the Iraq war that was the source of party’s resurgence in Congress became the measure of its impotence.
By the end of the 2007, a Congress controlled by Democrats for the first time since 1994 had an approval rating of only 25 percent, down from 40 percent last spring. Then the debate over the war split the party and cast shadows over other issues, spawning a series of legislative failures and losing confrontations with President Bush.
What to do about Iraq has turned into a dissing match so far-reaching and nasty that Congress’s accomplishments are seen, even by some who run it, through the lens of their failure to override Bush and start bringing the troops home.
“There is no question that the war in Iraq has eclipsed much of what we have done,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters. “If you asked me in a phone call, as ardent a Democrat as I am, I would disapprove of Congress as well.”
Now that’s great leadership: I disapprove of what I have led and presided over. Hmmm . . . .