Senate Rejects Cut-and-Run Plan No. 4

I'm elated at the news that Senate GOP managed to thwart a Senate binding resolution against the war in Iraq.

Dems mistakenly believed that they won Congress in November because Americans want to run out of Iraq. Of course, the reason Democrats won is far more complex than that. Reasons include extreme dissatisfaction among conservatives over administration policies ranging from the war to immigration to spending. There were plenty of Republicans who voted for Democrats (or sat out the election) so they could "teach the Republicans a lesson."

Dems are discovering that winning the election was the easy part. Now that they are expected to propose legislation and get it passed, they are finding the row a bit harder to hoe.

Today's repudiation of the hard left's pull out the f****** troops NOW strategy should provide some relief to worried Republicans, who have fretted that the Democrats would manage to handcuff the president and his ability to conduct the war.

Evidently, there have been enough conservative Democrats (or Democrats from conservative districts) elected to thwart every plan that Murtha and Pelosi can propose. Let's hope Republicans can build alliances with these Democrats to pass legislation, even if Grandma Pelosi doesn't like it.

Bob Geiger sounds the Democratic mantra about what the November elections meant, completely missing the point that sometimes government has to do important things regardless of their popularity.