The New Plan

Despite the fact that the vast majority of Americans want our troops to remain in Iraq, Bush will keep them there as long as he wants, because the amount of Republicans in Congress is just enough to keep the Democrats from gaining a two-thirds majority. However, the Democrats are doing just as Bush asked, and cooperating with him, trying to reach a bipartisan decision to help the soldiers in Iraq. The new bill they are working on would deliver the money to the president in two stages. No, the president is not going to like it. Yes, he is going to whine and complain to the media about how by not giving him exactly what he wants the Dems are being unpatriotic, not supporting the troops, and probably killing babies too, just for good measure. But in the end, this will probably do what the Democrats couldn't do with the first bill: pass with enough support to show Bush that this new Congress really isn't messing around. Sure, there will be enough "loyal Bushies" in Congress to fight with the Dems. But at last it will pass, and at last there will be a viable option to getting us out of this war.