Senate Rejects Cut and Run

In defiance of Democrats according to Washington Times:

"They were just looking for a political opening and I think they really messed up," Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said of the Democrats' strategy. "People see that things are moving [in Iraq]. This was a good week for Republicans." Vice President Dick Cheney also criticized the Democrats' efforts, saying in a CNN interview that "absolutely the worst possible thing we could do at this point would be to validate and encourage the terrorists by doing exactly what they want us to do, which is to leave."

Senator Kerry who proposed the Bill, once criticized cut and run, before he sponsored it:

"In fact, I fear that in the run-up to the 2004 election, the administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy," Mr. Kerry said in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in December 2003. "Their sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal dates, without adequate stability, is an invitation to failure. The hard work of rebuilding Iraq must not be dictated by the schedule of the next American election."

What an amazing hypocrisy! Kerry and his Party have become their own worst enemies.

Also read Mona Charen's The Spamalot party.

Plus Mike Gallager discusses Embracing the loser within.