Legal Commentary

How About In 2009?

By Big Tent Democrat

Via Atrios, Nancy Pelosi's 2007 promise to have us out of Iraq in 2008:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted Thursday that there would be “a drastic reduction in troops” in Iraq by the middle of 2008, saying Democratic opposition to the war had “changed the debate on Iraq in our country.” In an interview airing Friday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Pelosi, D-Calif., told host Chris Matthews that while Democrats may have failed for now to force President Bush to agree to a timetable to withdraw U.S. troops, their agitation for disengagement from Iraq had backed the president into a corner.

Let me be clear - the Democratic Party has not succeeded, the Republican Party has failed. The current Congress is a travesty. And "grassroots, progressive activists" have gone along and continue to go along for the ride. I for one will NOT shut up. Go try that nonsense on someone else.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 29, 2008 (boomark / email).