Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Isolation
I like this plan: as early as next week, Democrats in both houses will vote on the President's plan to be announced tonight (will there be any surprises?). These would be non-binding resolutions forcing Republicans to take a stand for or against the escalation of this very unpopular war.
“If you really want to change the situation on the ground, demonstrate to the president he’s on his own,” said Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. “That will spark real change.”
It's nice to see the tables turn on this, with Republicans (and Lieberman) in a mirror-image situation to the one Democrats faced back when the war was more popular.

Another deserving of this kind of pressure? Rudy Giuliani, who still refuses to say where he stands. On an issue as important as this one, he should be asked every day, 12 times a day, until he answers.

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