Reply #3: And once again...

[bain_sidhe]

The whole story is about Democratic failure rather than Republican obstruction. At least they used the word "filibuster" this time, but no where in the article is it made clear that the problem is the REPUBLICANS, not the Democrats.

Sheesh. I mean, look at the contortions the writer had to use in the opening sentence to paint this a "Democratic failure." It's bad writing, and bad journalism, and the only thing that is astonishing is that no editor even called them on it.

The twisted, convoluted, overly long opening sentence:

Senate Democrats' failure to reach agreement with wavering Republicans on legislation to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq forced party leaders to concede yesterday that they are running low on options for altering President Bush's war strategy this year.

Contrast with:

Republican obstruction forced Democratic leaders to concede yesterday that they are running low on options for altering President Bush's war strategy this year.

I take it back, there's one other astonishing thing... that we're so used to this that nobody even notices the contortions anymore.