[Peace-discuss] Getting the Democrats right

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Here some reporters on the right get the Democrats right.  --CGE]

...House-Senate negotiators approved a $471 billion Defense spending 
bill that could set up a fight over Iraq policy. Later this week, House 
appropriators plan to push a "bridge fund" that would keep Iraq War 
funds flowing to next year but would make the money contingent on a 
change in policy. To date, Democrats have backed away from really trying 
to compel the President to change things in Iraq. If the appropriations 
scuffle follows form, Democratic demands will be more rhetoric than 
substance.

...Democrats' public objections to Mukasey centered on whether 
water-boarding fit the definition of torture. Raising these objections 
allowed them to turn the Mukasey nomination into another flashpoint for 
rallying their base against the Bush Administration's conduct of the War 
on Terror, but their eventual capitulation also followed their pattern 
on this issue area: Raise a cry, attack the White House and then give 
the White House what it wants.

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