DeLay to Democrats: You don’t have the stones to cut off funding

They don’t, either.

Every paragraph the choicest of choice cuts:

When the Iraq resolution passed in October 2002, the country supported the war. Democrats then worried that supporting President Bush would make the crackpots at MoveOn.org mad, thus hurting them come election time. But at the same time, they worried that opposing Bush would make middle America mad, thus hurting them at election time. As usual, it was all about them, and they wanted it both ways. It’s always politics with them.

They wanted to position themselves to take credit when and if the war went swimmingly, while at the same time being able to criticize the president if things went badly. They didn’t vote for the war (or the USA Patriot Act, for that matter) because they believed in it, but because it was popular and they wanted people to like them. Their position hasn’t changed in four years. The same craven logic explains the treacherous idiocy behind their nonbinding war resolution. Now that the war is unpopular, they want to distance themselves from the mission and stick it in Bush’s face.

But in a million years Democrats wouldn’t have the guts to cut off funding for the mission. On the chance that Gen. David Petraeus’s surge works, they want to be able to take the credit for it. In that party, guts have been replaced with calculation.

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