Arrrgh. This is exactly the path of destruction that I was worried the new majority Democrats might take. The Iraq Debate is raging along, and the Democrats are split on what to do about it, which is making me rub my temples in frustration.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday he wanted to delay votes on a measure that would repeal the 2002 war authorization and narrow the mission in Iraq.

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“Iraq is going to be there - it’s just a question of when we get back to it,” Reid said, predicting it would be “days, not weeks” before the Senate returned to the issue. The war reauthorization legislation also appears to lack the 60 votes it would need to pass the Senate.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meanwhile, said she doesn’t support tying war funding to strict training and readiness targets for U.S. troops.

Pelosi said she supports holding the administration to training and readiness targets, but added: “I don’t see them as conditions to our funding. Let me be very clear: Congress will fund our troops.”

Okay, let’s remind ourselves of one thing: Congress controls funding. That’s really it. They control the wallet, as the old saying goes. Pelosi wants to hold the administration to targets… how? What in the hell is going to hold them to those targets? That’s why the non-binding resolution is drawing so much scorn from people, it doesn’t actually DO anything, it just shakes a finger. Like a parent who yells at her child for over-eating, as she puts another slice of cake on his plate.

“I do not believe that someone is unpatriotic if they don’t agree with my point of view. On the other hand, I think it’s important for people to understand the consequences of not giving our troops the resources necessary to do the job,” Bush said.

This is, once again, what passes for “bipartisanship” in Bush’s mind. He doesn’t mind if you disagree, he just minds if you act on your disagreement. You can dissent all you want, just continue to pump the money into his failed project and do nothing to stop him. That’s the patriotic way.

If the Democrats don’t find their balls again, or at least realize why they got elected in the first damn place, they can kiss their majority and hopes for a presidential candidate goodbye come 2008.