The Democrats are Getting Serious

It only makes news is Obama and Hillary do it, so here it goes.

Today both presidential front runners announced their support for cutting off funding to our troops at war. Obama supports such a measure “to send a strong statement to the Iraqi government, the president and my Republican colleagues that it’s long past time to change course.”

This is in support of a bill by Sen. Feingold, of McCain/Feingold "fame." Maybe Mr. Feingold should stick to campaign finance legislation, because his bill calls for troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days...haven't we traveled down this dead end road too many times already this year?

Legislation that calls for troop withdrawal will never be signed by President Bush. If Congress uses the "purse strings" and cut off funding for the troops they will look like they do not support the troops. With so many Senators running for president, they don't want to look unsupportive which is why cutting of the funding will never happen. It is just a threat.

The only solution that I can see both stubborn parties agreeing to is the benchmark legislation, in which the Iraqi government must meet benchmarks in order to keep our troops around. But even this has its flaws.