Polls and Politics
By Paul M. Weyrich
The Democrats must pay off their left-wing, which helped them become a majority party for the first time in a dozen years. Leaders in both the House and Senate have come up with bills that would impose timetables on the president’s request for another $100 billion to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The question is, is this good politics? Clearly the effort is to micro-manage the wars via the Congress...