Reply #125: This *apparent* weakness is the price Democrats pay for not marching in lockstep

[Bucky]

This was a fumbling, bumbling half-step in the right direction. If we could get all the Democrats to all agree all at once to cut off funding, it might have gone differently. But this is how a headless herd decides--slowly. Democrats aren't good at speaking with one voice. This is why we're Democrats.

I don't like the compromise, but I don't feel betrayed by it either. It just means we have to keep pushing harder for them to do the jobs they were elected to do. This vote wasn't a loss. It was draw. There will be more rounds in this fight.

And lots of soldiers and civilians will die in Iraq while the fight goes on. And then many more will die for many months after it's over.

Bush may well turn out to be the most influential man in the 21st century.