Do Dems now share equal blame with Bush for Iraq?
(Updated below after the Senate vote) I got links to my post lamenting the Democrats’ cave-in from Kos, Atrios, Digby and Firedoglake today, which I appreciate, but some readers are angry about my quick post after that one, calling MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann’s anti-Democrat rant Wednesday night “a bit over the top.” Here’s what I meant: I oppose the compromise/capitulation bill just passed by the House, but I’m uncomfortable with blanket attacks on Democratic leaders that make the party’s disappointing cave-in somehow equivalent with what the Bush administration has done over the last four years in Iraq, as Olbermann did. I’m with Kos on this one: I think you have to take apart the caucus, applaud those who are standing up against Bush, criticize the underminers, and be wary of generic denunciations of “Democratic leaders” that suggest they now share with Bush equal blame for the war, and for the many deaths likely to come before it’s over. Because they don’t. I’m not writing this just to
