Iraquagmire

Thanks to Don Surber for the title:

2007 was the year the wheels spun until they came off the Democratic bandwagon.  Why?  Iraq.  Time after time after time, Democrats voted on Iraq. They thought this would punish Republicans by tarring them with an unpopular war.  Instead, it tarred them. The public stopped caring about Iraq a long time ago. We went in for WMD, found none and wound up with an unhappy mess.  Winning the war 4 years later does not redeem the Republican Party.  But arguing about it constantly while doing nothing else (except endless trolling for scandals) cost the Democratic Party its all.

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Pelosi and Reid cannot do the simple math. They don’t have the votes. The Democratic lead in the House is too small and Democrats do not have the 60 votes necessary in the Senate to force their will.  Instead of compromising, Democrats have tried to force their will upon Congress and failed 40 times, at least. Some estimates are 63 times.