From yesterday’s New York Times:

The Senate defeated an attempt to erase an American troop withdrawal date from an Iraq spending bill this afternoon after an emotional debate about the powers of the presidency and Congress and the well-being of front-line soldiers.

By a vote of 50 to 48, the Senate allowed a withdrawal date of March 31, 2008, to remain in the $122 billion bill, which has yet to be acted upon. The majority defeated an amendment offered by Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee, that would have removed the date.

The March 31, 2008, date is nonbinding, so the spending bill emerging from the Senate differs markedly from the version narrowly passed by the House last week that demanded a withdrawal by Sept. 1, 2008. Moreover, the margins in both chambers were far too narrow to override a veto promised by President Bush.

But this afternoon’s vote, like the one last week in the House, reflect the power of the new Democratic majority in Congress, and the Democrats’ determination to press their case against Mr. Bush’s conduct of the Iraq war.  (Emphasis added.)

So crows the mouthpiece of liberal multicultural defeatism in America.  But no amount of voodoo analysis regarding “the power of the new Democratic majority in Congress” by the New York Times is going to erase the following salient facts:

1. The bill never would have passed without the help of two turncoat Republicans.
2. The withdrawal stipulation in the bill is non-binding (again).
3. There’s a guy with veto stamp waiting at the end of the line.
4. In the Time’s own words “the margins in both chambers were far too narrow to override a veto.”

Okay.  So besides those four inconvenient truths, I suppose yesterday’s action by the Senate Democrats could conceivably be considered a “mighty victory.”  If you’re the village idiot….

What a joke.  I absolutely adore watching these mouthbreathers beat their own breasts over meaningless pieces of feces legislation.

How in God’s name did they ever get elected in the first place?

So here’s an artist’s conception of President Bush’s new veto stamp:

That’s pretty much what this deal amounts to.

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