Dems React to Bush's Plan

Great post from Jon Henke at The QandO Blog on the Democratic reaction to Bush's strategy on Iraq. The best thing that could happen to Bush's approval ratings is to have John Kerry hold frequent press conferences and remind the American people how close we came to actually putting this nincompoop in the White House.

Here's what Kerry said:

"The truth is that the president draws a false line in trying to make his case to America. The troops don't belong to his point of view, they belong to America..."

Here is Jon's response:

Well, and I don't want to presume to tell a sitting Senator his business, but I seem to recall Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution giving the Executive branch just that—authority over the armed forces: "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States".

Maybe John Kerry has a different edition of the Constitution.

In the Comments section, Steve Schippert has an additional response to this nonsense.

So what we should have is 52% of the troops fighting the war with conviction, 47% of them angrily testifying in Congress and/or protesting in Fallujah by tossing their medals over some fence still standing, and 1% of them refusing to go along with either crowd, confidently defiant to everything.

Earth to Kerry: We had an election. America chose. The title is "Commander in Chief". Not Military Democratic Procedural Facilitator in Chief.

Jon takes aim at the responses of other key Dems, including our own Russ Feingold, who said:

The problem here is that the president put out the wrong document. It should be strategy for victory against al Qaeda. Iraq is not the be-all and end-all of our national security.

So, for months (including just yesterday), Feingold has been calling for Bush to present a specific strategy for the war on Iraq. Now Bush presents one and Russ says it addresses the wrong thing? And I thought that Iraq had nothing to do with al Qaeda.

Read the entire post.

The Dems are clearly in a sorry state of disarray. It will be interesting to see how that master of politics, Hillary Clinton, rises to this challenge.