Game on

Finally, the showdown begins. CNN reports:

The troop withdrawal timetables in the House are embedded in appropriations legislation that provides money for care of wounded troops, for better equipment and training, and for expanded operations in Afghanistan.

It has become increasinly obvious that the Democrats are intent on micromanaging the war and slowly steering the result toward their preferred (if unspoken) result, which is defeat. The defeat would belong to W. alone, of course. His war. His legacy.

Tell you what. That sounds good. Because if the D’s succeed in this effort, they will own the future, after the troops limp home because of their lack of funding. If I’m right about what such a future might bring, the Democrats will be ruining their chances to lead for a generation or more. And that would be, to paraphrase Martha Stewart, a good thing.

All along, the Democrats have said they are more qualified to lead than W. Now they get to prove it.