What Anti-War Platform?

The Democratic controlled senate passed a $550 billion budget to fund the federal government for this fiscal year. Included in that is another $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democrats caved with their demands that any war funding include a timetable for troop withdrawal.

Largely swept into power by a growing disdain for the war in Iraq and Republican incompetence, the Democratic Congress has done very little (well pretty much nothing) to support the platform that gave them control of the legislative branch for the first time since 1994. Whatever anti-war platform existed is gone now. George Will was right. If Congress could change something, they'd abolish it.