Yesterday, the Democratic leadership in Congress folded holding a royal flush. In the Iraq war funding fight -- a fight that dems could not possibly lose -- they conceded pretty much everything to George W. Bush.L.A. Times:
Scrambling to send President Bush an emergency war spending bill he will sign, Democratic leaders have decided to drop their insistence on a timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq.
The move -- which comes just days after senior Democrats insisted that White House officials should support non-binding timelines -- is a significant concession to the president and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill, who steadfastly have rejected any dates for bringing U.S. troops home.
But it reflects the simple mathematics of a closely divided Congress in which Democrats cannot muster veto-proof majorities for any proposal that would compel a pullout.
About that 'simple mathematics'; they may not have been able to override a veto, but ultimately they wouldn't have had to. Bush could either sign a war funding bill or defund his own damned war. As I said earlier, dems couldn't lose -- Bush would sign.
And if he didn't, even better...
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