Then the answer is, the Dems Won.

Remember Johnny Carson's Amazing Karnack routine? Johnny, wearing his Karnack turban and cape, would hold an envelope up to his forhead and first give the answer.

Then, he would open the envelope and read the question.

Ok, so I decided to comment about the death of the "redeployment" amendment, but did not want to type essentially the same shit most other (dem) bloggers likely would. So I am doing it like the Karnack Routine, if only to be different.

Anyway, imagine Karnack saying " the Democrats Won."

Then Karnack rips open the envelope and reads:

"What if the Democrats wanted to get out of the stink of so many of them having voted to authorize the Iraq war, and shift blame for the disaster on the GOP, instead of actually getting the amendment passed?"

Which is a slightly more complicated way of saying, I think the dems played the repubs as deftly and completely as anyone with one hand could play a sock puppet.

Hmm. That is perhaps less than fair. This game was sorta rigged. Either way, dems win. If they actually got the amendment passed then they would have done the will of 70% of the Nation. And since it did not pass, the Dems get to say,

"America. The Republicans have just sent you a loud and clear message. The GOP's message to America is as follows."

"Fuck you America. Sincerely, the Republican Party."


Like I said, The Dems won this round. Maybe more so then if the amendment passed. Now, for the upcoming Presidental election, the issue is not only going to be the war policy, but the fact that the Republicans were so stubbornly in support of Bush's record of failure, that they chose to reject America's actual desire on the matter.

Ya. Spin your way out of telling 70% of the Nation to Fuck Off.


Yea, right!