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RUSH: All right, let\u2019s talk about the Democrats and the war in Iraq. The Associated Press: ‘The closest thing Congress has to a peace movement – 71 liberals who want to yank Iraq funding and bring troops home swiftly – faces a dilemma: The lawmakers can back a Democratic plan they think is too weak, or they can block it and risk an embarrassing defeat for their cause. It falls to one of their strongest allies, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. – whose San Francisco district is passionately against the war – to persuade them to accept a less aggressive stance. Pelosi is working feverishly,\u2019 not only to avoid Code Pink protesters, but also ‘to scrounge together enough Democratic votes to pass a war-spending measure that would force the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by 2008. Leaders circulated a draft Monday, and the House is set to weigh in on it as early as next week.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The next story with this: ‘Democrats Abandon War Authority Provision — Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush\u2019s authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war.\u2019 Now, do you know what this means? It\u2019s not so easy in the driver\u2019s seat, is it, Democrats? It\u2019s much more fun being the grumpy old know-it-alls in the back seat, ‘Are we there yet? Are we there yet?\u2019 You didn\u2019t have the guts to put it in the bill, did you, that the president can\u2019t go into Iran? You didn\u2019t have the guts, did you? You don\u2019t want the responsibility, do you? No, you just want to be a bunch of back-benchers even when you\u2019re in the majority, bellyaching and moaning and whining and accusing everything that happens in Washington of being a conspiratorial crime. <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s see if I understand this. The Democrats are essentially saying that President Bush should agree to the Pelosi Surrender Plan because it helps her bring together the various factions in her caucus. That\u2019s what the Drive-Bys are saying. So hard on Ms. Pelosi. She\u2019s got such a tough job, balancing all these different factions in her caucus. Fine. Let the president bail her out. Let the president agree to her surrender plan so that she can keep her caucus united! The language was worked out so as to bring on board her libs and her so-called moderates. Whether or not it does that is another issue, though. These far leftists want to cut off funding, but that doesn\u2019t have a prayer, so she hopes a certain deadline would bring \u2019em along — a deadline that is also meaningless, a deadline to get the troops out. Even the media is laughing about this. I want to take you to an audio sound bite from Sunday on CNN\u2019s Late Edition, with John Roberts filling in for Wolf Blitzer. His guests are Lindsey Graham and Senator Joe Biden, and they play a videotape for these guests to comment on from last Thursday when Pelosi and David Obey of Wisconsin went out there and announced this brilliant plan. I want you to listen to the whole bite.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: When these resolutions were unveiled later in the week, they were convoluted, to say the least. Take a quick listen to some of this press conference.<\/p>\n

OBEY: Must be out of a combat role by October — I mean by August of — of 19 — or — 19 — 2007.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: 2008. If they meet —<\/p>\n

OBEY: I\u2019m sorry. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

PELOSI: If they haven\u2019t made any progress by July, we begin the 180 days. If they haven\u2019t — if they haven\u2019t made — if the president cannot demonstrate progress by July, we begin the 180 days. <\/p>\n

UNKNOWN REPORTER: Is it July 1st or 31st? <\/p>\n

PELOSI: Is it July 1st or 31st? July 1st.<\/p>\n

ROBERTS: Joe Biden, how do you pass or enforce something you can\u2019t even explain?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was the CNN anchor who will normally do his best to make these people look like wizards. He was himself forced into laughter asking Joe Biden, putting Biden on the spot, ‘How do you pass or enforce something you can\u2019t even explain?\u2019 This was an absolute joke. Now, the point about all this is that you have to understand this is not about the war. It\u2019s not about winning the war. (It\u2019s about losing it, but it\u2019s not even about that). It\u2019s about purely partisan political calculations for 2008. That\u2019s what your Democrat majority is involved in here, in regards the national security of the United States. It\u2019s not about the national security of the United States. It\u2019s about the perpetual power and security of the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

The liberals have been trying to sell this and build up their own competence. They\u2019re out there saying, ‘Bush didn\u2019t finish the job at Tora Bora.\u2019 Nobody\u2019s ever asked this question: ‘What do you mean finish<\/emphasize> the job?\u2019 Would liberals have even started<\/emphasize> the job at Tora Bora? Well, I ask because they didn\u2019t start <\/emphasize>it in 1993 when the World Trade Center first blew up and they didn\u2019t do anything in \u201994 or \u201995 or \u201996 or \u201997 or \u201998 or \u201999 when there were terrorist attacks against Americans all over the world. What makes you think they would have started in 2002 or \u201903 or \u201904 or \u201905 or \u201906? Where is the history that Democrats are going to ‘take the fight to terrorists\u2019? Bush didn\u2019t finish the job at Tora Bora? Here\u2019s why liberals can\u2019t conduct a war. First, they insist on giving six months advance notice the war is going to start. Now they want to give six months advance notice the war is going to end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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