Four Senators with balls

That is the title of Bob Geiger's piece that says what I wanted to convey in my previous entry.

If I asked you to quickly name what four United States Senators are sticking to their guns and will vote against the ludicrous "compromise" Iraq supplemental bill -- you know, the one where George W. Bush gets everything he wants -- what would be your first few guesses?

If you said Russ Feingold (D-WI), Chris Dodd (D-CT) and John Kerry (D-MA) you would, of course, be right. And if you think about who was one of the fastest to sign on with the Feingold-Reid legislation to withdraw our troops from Iraq in less than a year, you probably would have also guessed Independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

These are just a few of the Senators and Congresspeople that have the guts to say it like it is. We have to start planning an exit at some point. Bush wants to continue this mess until at least the end of 2008. By then he will be out of office and then it will be somebody else's mess to deal with. Isn't that nice. Then, I'm sure he bets that the next President will have to pull out and hopes that history will remember him (or her) as the one that had to withdraw.

This is nothing new. Rep. Murtha had proposed a plan to move to neighboring areas almost two years ago. What's Bush's plan? More of the same?