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> Even [the House Dems] have been strangely quiet.
In terms of the all-important re-election strategy, what could they possibly gain by opening their mouths? It may be a different matter for the 2008 Presidential candidate, who probably wants to establish unambiguous anti-war credentials early and often (don't want to be labeled as a "flip-flopper"!), but as far as Congressmen go, if they say nothing, nevertheless not one in a hundred anti-war voters will abandon the Dems; what other choice have they, Nader? Whereas any Representative who does criticise even the most minor detail of the Iraq fiasco today can be sure to face a centrally-funded million-dollar attack campaign in his home district, featuring Photoshopped "proof" that he-or-she, Saddam and Osama are just like _this_ (hold up your hand and bunch up the pointer, middle and ring fingers).
I suspect we'll see a lot of judiciously vague anti-war talk out of a lot of these Democratic Congressmen during the last two or three weeks before the 2006 election, though - too late for the swine to get a broad Swiftboating campaign up to speed.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net