Things are not working out as Democratic congressional leaders expected. For the first eight months of this year they struggled to find some way to shut down the American military effort in Iraq.
They took it for granted that we were stuck in a quagmire in Iraq, with continuous high casualties and very little to show for them. They pressed hard to get the Republican votes they needed to block a filibuster in the Senate and were cheered when some ...
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Barone lays out Democratic failures in the last couple months as an argument that 'it's not 2006 anymore'. Not particularly insightful.
Michael Barone is the most prominent objective observer of U.S. politics (the Almanac for which he is senior editor is the main reference work on American politics, the 2008 edition is now available) and here provides an analysis of the situation faced by the Democratic Party over the failure of its Congressional leadership to chart a sensible course on Iraq. This is a timely and well-supported analysis.
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