Jason Horowitz writes about the efforts of Washington Democrats to assert themselves on Iraq without handing the Republicans a political gift. As Charlie Rangel put it:
“The President will say we’re in business with Osama Bin Laden. Anytime, politically, you have to explain what you are saying, you have a problem. And so if I am there saying, ‘Cut the funds for Iraq and the war in Iraq,’ then someone is going to say, ‘You are taking away rifles.'”
Joe Conason thinks the Democrats ought to cut funding for the war anyway.
Steve Kornacki explains the political perils of the McCain Doctrine.
And John Koblin writes, from amid the steaming wreckage in Foxborough, about the feel-good season of the New York Jets.
— Josh Benson
