From Fox News: Democrats Edge Away From Troop Withdrawal Legislation Despite Heavy Rhetoric.

     WASHINGTON  —  Congressional Democrats have put on the back burner legislation ordering troops home from Iraq and turned their attention to war-related proposals that Republicans are finding hard to reject.

     The legislative agenda marks a dramatic shift for party leaders who vowed repeated votes to end combat and predicted Republicans would eventually join them. But with Democrats still lacking enough votes to bring troops home, the party runs the risk of concluding its first year in control of Congress with little to show for its tough anti-war rhetoric.

     "We can no longer approach the discussion on Iraq as a partisan issue," said Rep. John Tanner, a conservative Democrat from Tennessee. "Our soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Guardsmen aren't fighting as Democrats or Republicans but as Americans."

     Damn, I thought my head was going to explode there for a minute.  Some little birdy must have reminded that next year is an election year and that pandering to the far left was a sure way to get un-elected.  Now I don't believe for a minute that most of these dummy Dems are merely following the latest polling data, and would say they supported an immeadate invasion of North Korea if they thought that was what the public wanted to hear.  Their Viet Nam legacy has once more bitten them in the ass, the American public, unlike Dimocratic legislatures want to make damn sure another Viet Nam doesn't happen. Why can't these America hating hippie commie wanna bes just hurry up and fade from the scene already.  Their rhetoric was tired in the seventies and it is only more so thirty some odd years later.

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