Democrats Are United in One Sentiment: Bush Can Do No Right

Bush had hoped to persuade congressional leaders to withhold judgment until Wednesday night's speech, meeting with more than 125 lawmakers in the run-up to the speech, including House leaders yesterday. But the Democrats couldn't wait that long to hang the escalation plan in effigy.

Websites across the country quote President George Bush faux pas and speech blunders. In the six years that President Bush has been President of the United States, September 11th happened, America has gone into a war under the false pretenses of weapons of mass destruction, the National Debt is sky high, Hurricane Katrina survivors were left to starve and die in New Orleans, over 3,000 U.S. troops have been killed, and just recently the U.S. embassy in Greece has been attacked.

But this time it's different---the Democrats, now in the majority, are beating down on Bush and his mistakes, namely the Iraq War blunders, like a hail storm. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, invoked Martin Luther King Jr. as she urged her members against inaction. Even House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, once a quiet Democrat who supported the war, stunned Republicans and Democrats alike when he voiced that the war is no longer militarily winnable.

Democratic reaction to Bush's prime-time speech last night was overwhelmingly negative, setting the stage for a series of legislative moves that will play out over the next few months. Among the angry mob rises Representative John Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense. He wants the troops out yesterday and he is not alone.