Lucy's holding the football. . .

From The Washington Post:

Democratic and Republican opponents of President Bush's troop-buildup plan joined forces last night behind the nonbinding resolution with the broadest bipartisan backing: a Republican measure from Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia.

Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) announced the shift, hoping to unite a large majority of the Senate and thwart efforts by the White House and GOP leaders to derail any congressional resolution of disapproval of Bush's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500.

Although the original Democratic language was popular within the party, it had little appeal among Republicans. Warner's proposal drew support from both sides, and it was retooled last night to maximize both Democratic and Republican votes.

The revised resolution would express the Senate's opposition to the troop increase but would vow to protect funding for the troops. The resolution does not include the Democratic language saying the Bush plan is against the national interest, but it also drops an earlier provision by Warner suggesting Senate support for some additional troops.

"It's been a hard work in progress," Warner said of the revised resolution, which will require the support of at least 60 senators to prevent a filibuster.

After reviewing the Warner revisions, Reid decided the new text would take the place of the original resolution, by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). He said the Senate will begin debating the resolution next week, provided Democrats and Republicans can agree on a way to overcome some procedural hurdles.

I expect this from the Democrat Party. They have staked their political future on a US defeat in Iraq to the point where they are knowingly and deliberately allied to the Islamofascist terrorists in Iraq. In the Democrat Party's power equation victory for the savages who kidnap innocent people and cut their heads off while shouting "god is great" is victory for them.

OK, fine. That is all I expect from the Democrats. They long ago became the party of hatred for America. They party of defeat for America. The party of support for any political movement, any tyrant, any rogue state as long as it was against US interests. In short the party of evil.

Again, fine. That's who they are and that's what they stand for. Being who and what they are they cannot help but oppose our efforts in Iraq. After all we are bringing freedom to a people who have never known it. We are taking steps which, if successful, will begin the process of dismantling an utterly worthless, savage and evil "religion" which has enslaved the souls and minds of over a billion people and done nothing but spread warfare and misery across the world for the past 1400 years.

Democrats cannot possibly support that, not without becoming a completely different party composed of completely different people.

What is truly sickening is the fact that Republicans are running along behind shouting, "me too, me too". Have they completely forgotten that they just lost control of the House and the Senate because they went to Washington claiming to be Republicans and then turned around and acted like Democrats? Don't they know that when the public is faced with the choice of a democrat and a Democrat they will choose the Democrat?

But I can hear some liberal bleating, "it was the war that caused them to lose, the war, the war!"

If that's the case and the war was the big issue then why did pro-war Joe Lieberman crush anti-war Ned Lamont in deep blue a state like Connecticut even after Lieberman had left the Democrat Party and all the Democrat leaders were doing everything in their power to ensure Lieberman's defeat?

The American people hate to lose and they have been convinced by a mainstream media establishment, which serves the Democrat Party the way that Dr. Goebbels served Hitler, that we are losing in Iraq. Turn the situation in Iraq around so dramatically that the press cannot prevent the people from noticing and the president's popularity rating will go from 35% to 75% and the Democrats, who only won congress by finding candidates who were, or could pretend to be conservative, will find themselves with so few members in congress after 2008 that they won't even be able to filibuster the new Republican president's package of tax cuts.

That is unless the Democrat leadership is able to trick the Republicans in congress into joining them in their betrayal of the nation. You see if the Democrats can get the Republicans to condemn the president's plan (which has the stench, to Democrat nostrils, of success about it) then it will matter a great deal less if all their plans backfire and we win in Iraq. The cravenness will have been bipartisan ansd so will cost them less.

It would appear that the Republicans are going to once again be willing to play "Charlie Brown kicking the football" and wind up flat on their backs. Unless there are 40 Republicans in the Senate whit IQs in the double digits and at least one pair of balls between them who can filibuster this abomination.