Hoisted on their own petard.

Dingy Harry Reid is so afraid of the good news coming from Iraq in September that he is already, however clumsily, trying to discredit the report before it arrives.

Reid floated a completely groundless rumor that the September progress report on Iraq that the Post Office Congress of Damascus Nancy and Dingy Harry demanded was going to be a political document written only in the White House.

Aside from the legal requirement, upon which Reid personally insisted in including in the May legislation, that the report must come from the President, there was never any intention for either General Petraeus or Ambassador Crocker to testify in closed session, much less exclude them from the creative process of actually writing the report. Not surprisingly, Reid's statements were based on anonymous sources. How utterly convenient.

Maybe the 14% Congress has finally overreached. Defeat at any price is not really the American way. While it did take two and a half years to return to the American principle of victory through overwhelming force, the Bush Administration finally got it right and began overwhelming with force in Iraq. Open minded Democrats have already conceded the existence of substantial military and security progress. Today, the Iraqi government took a significant step toward political reconciliation with the Kurdish parties returning to the government. Reid’s desperation to promote defeat is palpable. Quisling is far too kind of a word for Reid.

Moreover, rumors abound that the Ed Gillespie lead White House political operation is planning a massive counterattack this September, much like the spine breaker they put on John Kerry in September of 2004. Maybe the White House will wake up and begin applying the overwhelming rhetorical and political force at its disposal to crush venally ambitious and dangerously weak liberal politics of division, distortion, despair and defeat.