If Democrats Had Half A Brain.......

The Democrats are so consumed with hate that they've managed to punt away a huge political advantage.

Rarely in U.S. history has a political party diagnosed a major failure in the country's approach to a crucial issue of the day, led a national referendum on the failing policy, forced a change in that policy that led to major substantive benefits for the nation — and then categorically refused to take any credit whatsoever for doing so.

This is, of course, the story of the Democrats and the Iraq war over the past 13 months. Without a Democratic takeover of the Congress in 2006, there is little chance that President Bush would have acknowledged his Iraq policy to be failing, and that Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker would have been accorded the resources and the policy latitude needed to radically improve the situation on the ground.

I do admit, it would be pretty hard to imagine that Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or Jack Murtha crowing that they deserve credit for victory in Iraq.