Regarding weak-kneed, wobbly cowards..

While on my vacation, I heard some news that confirms my suspicion, without a doubt, that the republican party will take yet another major shellacking in 2008.

And a much-deserved shellacking it will be.

Senator Snowe's, Pete Domenici, Richard Lugar et al.'s declarations that the surge has/is failing amount to an autopsy performed on a living, breathing subject yet in its infancy. In this story, two security analysts who met at the American Enterprise Institute lay out the case why "the surge" strategy is hardly failed and is far from dead:

AEI resident scholar Frederick Kagan and former acting Army Chief of Staff Gen. Jack Keane spoke out with rare voices of approval for the president's policy as part of an AEI panel called "Assessing the Surge in Iraq."

Kagan was critical of the surge's detractors, saying they had jumped to attack a policy that had only recently begun. He expressed incredulity at the idea that the surge was somehow not working.

"The current strategy has not failed. It just began June 15th," Kagan said.

Keane agreed, adding that the strategy needed more time. He also stressed that the situation was generally improving in Iraq and that coalition forces were gaining momentum in their efforts.

"All the Iraqis that I spoke to, numbering in the hundreds, believed the security situation was getting better," he said.

Keane also expressed optimism for the ongoing struggle against al Qaeda, which had gained a foothold in Iraq following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. He cited Anbar province, an area once riddled with al Qaeda fighters, whose residents had since turned against the terrorists.

"Al Qaeda overplayed their hands," he said. Iraqis "are fed up with this barbarism and war that has gone on for four years."

Don't our troops have enough on their shoulders with the likes of Senator Al-Reid, Senator Al-Pelosi, and Senator Al-Boxer spitting out their seditious drivel, without having a cadre of spineless RINOs joining in the caterwalling, with no other interest in this issue outside of trying to save their linguini-spined political hides?

Do these idiots actually realize the consequences of ceding Iraq to Al Qaeda and other like-minded savages?

Of course, something like this is to be expected from democrats, who actually have a history of thinking that the genocide of millions isn't all that bad.

But for Republicans to cave and cower to terrorism, despite the obvious ramifications of doing so, is at best unconscionable.

Each one of these weak-kneed, wobbly RINO cowards deserve a primary challenge and a good political (if not real) kick in the teeth.