And then there's the Kleiman Strategyl, which makes much more sense than my suggestion that Dodd filibuster Levin-Reed.

So what will the Dems do? We're getting close to Magic Time for the Dems, right? Wasn't October when they promised us they would attack again after falling back so spectacularly in the spring? Don't worry, they said, there are authorization bills to pass. We're keeping our powder dry!

Well, now's their big chance. Or is this their big chance to string us along another six months while they pretend to want the war to end before the 2008 elections? Avedon had the Dems' strategy nailed back in August when she talked about their aversion to impeachment:

As much as some Broderesque types would like to convince us that all those investigations, as well as the desire for impeachment, are mere partisanship, it is really Pelosi's fears for the party's fortunes in 2008 that have kept the lid on those investigations going where they should lead. So yes, at long last, we have an example of the Democrats being calculatedly partisan - in their refusal to begin the impeachment of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney.

And in choosing to continue this occupation. It's a good cop/bad cop scam and in my big book of judgment, the good cop is by far the eviler of the two because it's his job to make us hold out unwarranted hope. It's exactly that hope that keeps us from acting in our own best interest - and, not for nothing, in the best interest of our country and the military families who defend it.