It's time to pick a fight.

Dems, here’s your Million Dollar Idea

Demand a debate.

Don’t ask. Don’t plead. Don;t negotiate.

Demand.

The Iraq to-and-fro has become trench warfare, with each side dug into their respective rhetorical positions like ticks, and nobody moving substantively in the direction of ending this catastrophic foreign adventure.

Meanwhile, Iraqis are dying, our kids are dying, and time is in the Bad Guy’s side.

Every day this Administration successfully delays and obfuscates is another day closer they are to retirement, gang-pardons, dumping their toxic disaster into the laps of the next Administration, and ramping up the Next Great Lie: that Democrats Lost Iraq.

Plus the cadence of the Long Campaign is becoming a monotonous and predictable patter. Democrats, smelling victory, are playing not to lose. And the Republicans are desperately trying to carve their scant records or various until-recently-diametrically-anti-Conservative positions up into Reagan-O-Lanterns to dupe the imbecile Base.

This would cut through all the lockstep, predictable campaign clutter and changing the tempo of battle. Throw the Bush Regime off-stride and off message.

Pick two fierce, candid, articulate Democrats who have no skin in the 2008 Presidential Elections and demand – every day, on the floor of the Senate, in every newspaper, in front of every camera – that the Bicycle Chief and his Zombie Regent quit cowering behind the troops and the lapdog media and come out and debate leading opponents of the war man-to-man.

How much draw would there be for a live, two-hour, prime-time Iraq War Town meeting featuring Bush/Cheney vs. Webb/Feingold?

or Feingold/Dean?

or Dean/Gore?

or Gore/Clark?

or Clark/Webb?


If you are so confident in the rightness of your cause, why are you hiding behind your underlings?

If you support democracy everywhere, why won’t you come out into public square and fight for your ideas like a man?

Or are you really just lying pussies?

America awaits your answer Mr. President.