Put your policy where your rhetoric is

Another day in the Senate, another failed attempt by a liberal Democrat to initiate troop withdrawal from Iraq. This time, it's courtesy of Russ Finegold of Wisconsin.

Senate leaders pulled the bill from debate when it was obvious there was not support for passage.

"We'll be back. There are a number of things we're considering," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters in acknowledging Feingold's measure was doomed.

Let me get this straight. The Democrats have a majority in the Senate, a slight one, but still a majority. The Reuters article makes no mention of a filibuster, but rather debate and evident failure on the anti-war wing of the Democratic party to shore up support for a withdrawal bill. The two major Democratic presidential candidates left, have been engaging in a metaphorical pissing contest over who is more opposed to the Iraq War.

Republicans used this week's Senate floor debate to highlight progress of Bush's troop surge, which has quelled violence even as Iraq's political leaders continue to face difficult challenges.

My sneaking suspicion is that the Democrats aren't nearly as unified against the war in the inner-chambers of the Senate as their making it out to be in their presidential nomination process.