Disingenuous Democrat

Pelosi said this yesterday (on All Things Considered): "President Bush is going to get a policy that is very destructive to the security of our country, that is destabilizing in the Middle East, and [that] is undermining our military capability, unfortunately. What President Bush has done is taken our nation on a course that is a catastrophic mistake. It's hard to exaggerate. I mean, you could never exaggerate the extent of the damage he has done to our reputation in the world and the capability of our military."

These are strong and accurate words, but they completely disingenuous (political speak for "lying") coming from the democratic leader. She says they put a bill on the presidents desk and he vetoed it (boo hoo). How convenient for democrats it is that they haven't succeeded in doing something hard.

That facts are that they haven't succeeded in doing something easy either. It's hard to pass new legislation over a veto, but it would have been extremely easy to block passage of any number of war funding bills. Congress does not support the troops by funding the war, they support the President and the President's policies by funding the war. Refusing to pass funding bills could have brought the troops home, but at the very least it would have forced the President in to a position where real compromise was necessary on his part.

If we ignore the political-speak of Pelosi and so many others, and simply look at their actions, we have to conclude that democrats are just as much in favor of this illegal war as the republicans.