Lead, Follow Or Get The Hell Out Of The Way

George Will on the Congressional Donks boxing themselves in on Iraq:

They can spend this year fecklessly and cynically enacting restrictions that do not restrict. Or they can legislate decisive failure of the Iraq operation -- withdrawal -- thereby acquiring conspicuous complicity in a defeat that might be inevitable anyway. A Hobson's choice? No, Nancy Pelosi's and Harry Reid's.

Meanwhile, I love this report. Dick Cheney recently had this to say about the Donk strategy:

"I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting [i.e., place restrictions on how additional funding of troops can be spent], all we will do is validate the al-Qaida strategy," the vice president told ABC News. "The al-Qaida strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit."

Now personally, I'd file this one under "Legitimate Criticism - Blindingly Obvious Division." So what was Madam Speaker Pelooooosi's response? In a word, "Whaaaaaaa!!!!":

"And you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to call the president and tell him I disapprove of what the vice president said," Pelosi said. "It has no place in our debate." Bush had previously urged her to call him when a member of his administration stepped over the line by questioning Democrats' patriotism, she said.

Insert your own "Daddy, make the bad man stop!" joke here.

Yips! from Gary:
Uh, oh. Big-Time's in trouble now!: Pelosi Calls Bush to Complain of Cheney's Comments on Democrats' Iraq Strategy