Dems set date for surrender. Popeye elated.

The dems in the U.S. house have set a date for surrender:

WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powers struggle and Congress' boldest challenge yet to the administration's policy.

Ignoring a White House veto threat, lawmakers voted 218-212, mostly along party lines, for a binding war spending bill requiring that combat operations cease before September 2008, or earlier if the Iraqi government does not meet certain requirements. Democrats said it was time to heed the mandate of their election sweep last November, which gave them control of Congress.

Mandate? What mandate? If cutting our troops off at the knees was such a grand and popular idea, why was it so difficult to pass this bill? And why was it necessary to stuff the bill with enough pork to feed the northern hemisphere just to get enough democrats (and 2 RINOs) to hold their noses just to get a margin of 6 lousy votes?

Democrats would like to convince Americans that they're right. In the House, however, they've shoveled more than $20 billion worth of unrelated projects into an Iraq spending bill that's expected to come up for a vote on Thursday. Some examples:

• $3.7 billion for agriculture disaster relief, including $75 million for storing peanuts in Georgia and $25 million for spinach farmers hurt by last year's E-coli outbreak.

• $2.9 billion for recovery in areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.

• $500 million to suppress wildfires in the West.

• $120 million for shrimp and menhaden fishermen.

Like I've always said--democrats "support our troops" like an arsonist "supports" firefighters.

The far-left wing that has the democrat party by the short hairs will undoubtedly be the party's own undoing come 2008.

It's too bad that terrorists will be emboldened and that even more lives will be unnecessarily lost in the process.

They better pray that my son isn't among those unnecessary casualties--they'll have one awfully-pissed off dad to contend with.

Not that they don't have one now.

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