The Chicken Dove Democrats

Matt Taibbi has written a great piece for Rolling Stone about how house and senate Democrats have sold out the idea of peace for the proverbial thirty pieces of silver. Their rhetoric on wanting to bring the troops home is nothing more than that. In the end Democratic leadership needs to have the war as a campaign issue come November. They need to feign powerlessness in order to fan the flames of displeasure for Republicans that they hope will convince voters that Democrats need the White House in order to do anything. The Truth is that as long as Iraq gives the Democrats an edge they have no reason to bring the war to an end.