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The jellyfish Democrats of the 110th Congress are claiming “victory” over the Bush administration. How can that be, you ask? Well, it’s because they caved in on the budget, but at least they’re not giving President Bush as much money as he wanted, they say. I shit you not.

You should read Glenn Greenwald’s blog post on this topic today. Greenwald gets it, as usual:

For Congressional Democrats, the “victory” they are touting is that they are only giving Bush $70 billion for the war now, and they won’t give him the other $130 billion he is demanding until they return in a few weeks. They really showed him.

But all of these complaints are extremely naive and unsophisticated. You see, all of this behavior by the Democrats is absolutely necessary. They have no choice. Otherwise, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News will attack them for being weak (as though there is some circumstance under which they wouldn’t) and that would be terrible. Nothing exudes strength, courage, toughness and resolve like having your behavior continuously described — accurately — as “bowing,” “capitulating,” “backing down,” “caving” and “surrendering.” Those are the verbs Americans love most when looking for the party to lead them.

Yes, readers, I am officially disgusted with the pathetic bunch of lawmakers that comprise our Democrat-controlled 110th Congress. Every single Democratic U.S. Representative currently in office should be voted out of office when they next go up for re-election. They have failed the American people. They care about nothing but their own pathetic political careers. Future historians will surely shake their heads in rueful wonder when they look back on the abject cowardice of our 110th Congress.