Senate Democrats pledged renewed efforts Sunday to curtail the Iraq war, suggesting they will seek to limit a 2002 measure authorizing President Bush's use of force against Saddam Hussein.

Wow, the White House must be REELING now! They're going to go back and change a word or two on the BLANK CHECK they wrote an imperialist oil man back in 2002 (and who better to trust with a boundless death warrant than a rich oil man with delusions that he talks to his Imaginary Friend?)!

This comes after a week where they hemmed and hawed about a toothless resolution, one which failed to pass, and after Harry, who insists that the Iraq War is "worse than Vietnam", decided to lick his wounds and let everyone go home for the holiday weekend. That's showing them, Harry!

So, the Head Donklephant in the US Senate once again talks big, (well, as big as you can in that halting, breathless, wimpy way that he does) while being VERY careful to do absolutely nothing. There is a monstrous, illegal, inhuman CRIME going on, the "worst foreign policy blunder in American history", and he goes on Wolf Blitzer and tosses the voters a bone ("I feel your dismay, I really do!") and will come back to the nation's capitol sometime next week and do ...

... nothing ...

... nada ...

... bupkis ...

Oh, he'll "work" with Levin and Biden to, ummmmmmm, reword an old resolution.

THAT'S SHOWING THEM SENATOR!

Six years of supine enabling, six years during which the Donklephants and their now-Majority Invalid couldn't bring themselves to launch ANY kind of opposition, and now we're supposed to believe that will change? The Republicans are back in the minority for only a couple of months, and they've already tied the Senate in knots, including threatened filibusters (remember those?).

Now, don't get me wrong, this ongoing disaster is really, really terrible, but it is of a piece with so many crimes and disasters in the past. Vietnam, yes, but what about the other imperial wars? What makes this one so especially bad, Senator, is it just that we're LOSING? Is it just that the war-profiteering and theft this time is so blatant AND inept, or is it just that YOU and YOUR CRONIES aren't getting a big enough cut? If it IS so bad, Senator Pugilist, WHY AREN'T YOU DOING ANYTHING? No, sir, posturing doesn't count as "doing something". Carefully choosing your words and focus-grouping them doesn't count as doing something.

Just retire, take your lifetime pension and LEAVE. Get the hell out of the way. You say that this war is terrible? Then DO SOMETHING. Quit marginalizing Senator Feingold in favor of embracing Republicans like Warner & Biden (well, he may as well be). Do something or retire, or fall ill and stay away, or SOMETHING. Stop showing up with fauning reporters to talk about how you used to box and about how your daddy blew his brains out. Right now there are men and women getting their brains blown out for oil and imperialism. Right now there are men and women returning home in despair, choosing that same course themselves to escape the pain. Right now there are families being torn apart both here and in Iraq, Afghanistan and soon Iran, by the war you enabled. Right now there are tragic stories playing out in drowned and bombed cities while you do nothing to help those in need, while you babble and reminisce and whine that the Republicans are mean.

Go away, you hack, you fraud ... I don't care if you finally adjusted your meds enough to see just how fucked up everything has become. Go away. Slink back to the casinos, to the fake city skylines and bad shows and fake pre-packaged culture in Nevada. Just ... go ... away.

Oh, and speaking of worthless Donk "leaders", it pays to rubber-stamp imperial war and attack women's autonomy, as it seems that the rightwing conspirators who pursued her and her husband have decided that she's not so bad after all:

Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied what she once called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” than Richard Mellon Scaife.

Mr. Scaife, reclusive heir to the Mellon banking fortune, spent more than $2 million investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder.

But now, as Mrs. Clinton is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mr. Scaife’s checkbook is staying in his pocket.

Christopher Ruddy, who once worked full-time for Mr. Scaife investigating the Clintons and now runs a conservative online publication he co-owns with Mr. Scaife, said, “Both of us have had a rethinking.”

“Clinton wasn’t such a bad president,” Mr. Ruddy said. “In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today.”

As for the conservative response to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, Mr. Ruddy said, “The level of intensity and anger toward Hillary is not getting to the level that it was toward Bill Clinton when he was president.” He added, “She has moderated and developed a separate image.”

Cozying up to Murdoch and attacking those to her left has really paid off, yes?

Reid, Clinton and the rest ... beyond worthless.