The Senate is our only hope

The president is delusional. Or the president doesn't care about anything other than not being in office when the withdrawal commences. Or some other theory.

There is only one possible intervention that can stop the madness. That is Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell meeting with the President in the Oval Office to tell him that Reid has 67 votes in opposition to continuing the war, and in favor of a phased withdrawal to start as soon as possible.

One would hope that enough Republican senators would recognize that the war effort has failed, that regardless of whether it was misbegotten from the outset, deprived of sufficient resources for success, incompetently managed or sabotaged by Iraqi allies, it has failed. One would hope that the needless loss of American and Iraqi lives would be motivation enough for the Republican senators, and that they would tell Bush that this war is over, based on the facts on the ground, respect for American troops, growing middle east instability and the deterioration in America's standing in the world.

Those have not been sufficient reasons for Senate republicans to oppose this war. However, November 2006 offered up a sufficient reason for many of them to reexamine their position. The American people spoke out very clearly in opposition to the Iraq war, removing from office even popular Republicans like Lincoln Chafee in an attempt to end the Congressional rubberstamp that enabled this war, and enabled so many other assaults on truth and the Constitution.

Twenty-0ne Republican Sentators are up for reelection in 2008. They are all at risk, even Ted Stevens, if they continue to support this war. On this blog, I'll keep track of the positions taken by the 21 Republican senators, and track our progress on the route to 67 Senators who have taken concrete (as opposed to rhetorical) positions against the war. We are starting at 50--the 49 Democrats plus Bernie Sanders. Lieberman is clearly lost to us, so we need to motivate 17 of the 21 Senators to accept the truth.

I urge readers who are constiuents of the 21 senators to contact them. Email this blog (21littlesenators@gmail.com) with responses to letters, phone calls and emails to your Republican senators, and I will post the response here.

The escalation option is already revealing cracks in the walls. The following posts will document what the class of 08 is saying about Bush's latest delusional attempt to dodge admission of failure.