Surge politics: sometimes voting to do something doesn't mean what you thought it did. Via Dan Froomkin, here's Howard Fineman at Newsweek:
Bottom line: Americans will go to the polls on Nov. 4, 2008 with basically the same Iraq policy in place as we have now. All of the rest is the sound and fury of political positioning. If the American people want to end this war faster, they will have to vote to do so—again, since that is what most of them thought they were doing in 2006.
Yep. Goes to show that when you've only got a slim majority and the opposition is more interested in preserving its own position and that of its President, rather than good policy or the best interests of two countries, it takes time to change.
Froomkin has a slew of links to other columnists, so go visit his site.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 11, 2007 09:42 AM | TrackBack