A showdown over Iraq looming large

Lots more to get to later today. The Senate has passed a bill calling for the almost immediate withdraw of our troops from Iraq, beginning in about four months. I'll have lots more to say about this tonight, but this is precisely what Democrats were sent to Congress last November to do - clean up the corruption that has so infested our federal government, and to end this misbegotten war.

I wonder if Bush will get on TV today to hammer home his already trite talking point - that the Democrats are engaging in "political theater" by passing bills in both Houses of Congress mandating that the troops be brought home. What an asinine thing for Bush to say, especially coming from a president who shamelessly uses theater to propagate his myopic views as to why the War in Iraq was/is so necessary.

This is how President Bush announced earlier this week that he would veto legislation that had any sort of deadline for American forces to withdraw from Iraq. Nah, no theater there. Look at who's standing in the background - Members of various veterans groups and their families.

How dare the Democrats participate in political theater!

President Bush would never stoop to such levels for political gain. He's beyond rank partisan politics and cheap photo opportunities. I repeat, he'd never do that.

Nope, never.

Ever.