Dems failures in 2007

The Washington Post highlights the Dems failures ( and some successes ) during their first year back in control of Congress. Talking about Iraq, this last paragraph seems rather odd...
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (Ill.), the Senate Democratic whip tasked with trying to find 60 votes for a filibuster-proof majority, acknowledged this week that Democrats' biggest failure stemmed from expecting "more Republicans to take an independent stance" on Iraq. Instead, most of them stood with Bush.

"Many of them will have to carry that with them into the election," Durbin said.

Since the surge has produced a remarkable turnaround in Iraq and it appears that trend will contiue in 2008, I would think that Republicans that stood by Bush and his Iraq surge policy will be more than happy to trumpet that fact. Durbin's statement illustrates exactly what the problem the Democrats face is. They have so deeply invested themselves in defeat in Iraq that they are unable to admit that success in Iraq is happening. If they do they are admitting that their position was and is 100% the wrong position to take.

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