Playing Chicken Over Iraq

In the Boston Globe, Doug Schoen warns the Democrats are playing a dangerous game, with this history lesson:

In 1995, I was one of the political consultants who advised
President Clinton during the government shutdown, which was brought on by
another clash between another assertive Congress and an equally determined
president. Then as now, the stakes were high. Had we failed, Republican House
Speaker Newt Gingrich would have become America's de facto prime minister.
Instead, Clinton's presidency was restored...

Today, history is
repeating itself -- with the parties reversed. This time a Republican president
is offering talks to recalcitrant Democrats. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can
justify going to Syria to talk with President Bashar Assad; however, she cannot
justify rebuffing an overture to talk to President Bush, as she and Senate
majority leader Harry Reid appeared to do last week before hurriedly (and
wisely) changing course.

I warned the Dems of this myself, before the elections with Dread Not a Democrat Run Congress.