And this comes as a shock to whom?

Found this great article exposing the Democrats in the House and Senate as opportunistic political vultures hedging their bets on re-election on the anti war movement's self-destructive faith in them. The foolish peaceniks thought the Dems cared. Silly hippies, these guys used y'all like the black vote since the Civil Rights Act of 1964:

... much of what has passed for peace activism in the past year was little more than a thinly veiled scheme to use popular discontent over the war to unseat vulnerable Republicans up for re-election in 2008. David Sirota, a former congressional staffer whose new book, The Uprising, excoriates the Democrats for their failure to end the war, expresses disgust at the strategy of targeting only Republicans. "The whole idea is based on this insane fiction that there is no such thing as a pro-war Democrat," he says. "Their strategy allows Democrats to take credit for being against the war without doing anything to stop it. It's crazy."

I just wanted to point out to our followers of the Church of the Lying Ass that Hillary and Obama are not for "change" of politics, just a change of letterhead. At least the GOP is honest about its views on the war except a few Rhinos.

I love the tragic and naive frustration of the writer as he whines with profane wit (note sarcasm):

How much of this bullshit are we going to take? How long are we supposed to give the Reids and Pelosis and Hillarys of the world credit for wanting, deep down in their moldy hearts, to do the right thing?

Look, fuck your hearts, OK? Just get it done. Because if you don't, sooner or later this con is going to run dry. It may not be in '08, but it'll be soon. Even Americans can't be fooled forever.

Until you prove other, you will be young man. By the way, this was from Rolling Stone, not The Economist.

Guess Nancy read the Rolling Stone article and feared losing her integrity. So she spoke with raw courage:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday that Iraq “is a failure,” adding that President Bush’s troop surge has “not produced the desired effect.”

“The purpose of the surge was to create a secure time for the government of Iraq to make the political change to bring reconciliation to Iraq,” Pelosi said on CNN’s “Late Edition.” “They have not done that.”

The speaker hastened to add: “The troops have succeeded, God bless them.”

Coward. No other word describes her. So the troops have succeded but the mission is a failure? Her logic is numbing. And if she says God bless them it gives her street cred? She is the Congressional Gangsta!