Here Comes The Dem Cave-In On Iraq
We cannot be a one-trick pony," said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), who helped engineer his party's takeover of Congress as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "People voted for change, but Iraq, the economy and Washington, D.C., [corruption] all tied for first place. We need to do them all."
This is Emanuel's way of saying 'look, we did our political game on Iraq, now we are going to cave in to Bush and face his intransigence on "kitchen table" issues. Oh by the way, I never cared about doing something about Iraq anyway. Look what I said in the beginning of 2006.'
They don't get it and they never really will. Paul Krugman told them:
Normally, politicians face a difficult tradeoff between taking positions that satisfy their party’s base and appealing to the broader public.... But a funny thing has happened on the Democratic side: the party’s base seems to be more in touch with the mood of the country than many of the party’s leaders. And the result is peculiar: on key issues, reluctant Democratic politicians are being dragged by their base into taking highly popular positions. Iraq is the most dramatic example....
They do not want to believe it. They want to listen to enablers like Leon Panetta:
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