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Amen to everything you say about how this makes the Democrats look weak.
I wanted to say the flip side of the coin also disgusts me: future historians will be left with an image of Bush as a decisive leader, a winning politician who masterfully bludgeons an opposing MAJORITY into doing his will. The boorish, sulking, unthoughtful, incurious tool we currently have in the White House will be momentarily obscured by the aura of this "victory," which was really about the collapse of the other side.
Bush gets to look strong simply by showing up; which, alas, people who claim to be our real leaders didn't even do.
Et tu, Obama, indeed.
