Enjoying a rant

On Real Time, Ben Affleck went on a little tear about the Democrats caving on war funding.

It was pleasant to hear, mirroring my own disgust at the backtracking by so many Democrats elected to act on matters just like this.

How many said they would go back to Congress, during their last campaigns, and promised to go back and fight, and vote, to bring this war to a conclusion, to bring oversight back, and to represent the sense that was burgeoning across this country.

But what we got was resignation. Hey, we tried the president won't listen, so we just want to give in and stop fighting.

How weak kneed.

Affleck had it right. They wanted to go home, wanted to get out, and didn't want to be mocked by conservatives. And has been noted, they were anyway.

Democrats in power are going to have to go a long way to rebuild the respect they got sweeping into power. Cause they expended it all, doing Bush's bidding.

Shameful.