Post-Sleepover Shifts

Michelle Malkin's wall-to-wall coverage of last night's Senate sleepover includes some interesting blog posts this morning. First up is Jules Crittenden, who cites a New York Times article that shows some 'wobbly' Republicans may now be shifting away from the Democrats' retreat plan. Lugar and Domenici, two senior Republicans who recently spoke out against Bush's Iraq policy, have both said they will oppose the plan, which should come to a vote sometime this morning.

Republicans pointed out that the whole all-nighter stunt was a complete joke because the Democrats who were complaining about having to come up with 60 votes on critical issues like this one used the same tactics themselves when they were the minority party. "You wonder if they are more interested in politics than dealing with the substance of this," said Senator George V. Voinovich, Republican of Ohio.

Don Surber agrees with Crittenden, and expounds: "So the Senate stayed up last night? Thousands of troops stay up every night. They put in 12-hour days. They are beating an enemy that wants to kill us. Reid’s stunt — his word — showed the American people what pampered babies senators are — and how incompetent the Democratic Party’s leaders are. Bush’s approval is 29%? So what? That is still double the 14% confidence rate of the Democratic-controlled Congress. Bush may be nearing Carter levels on job approval, but Congressional Democrats have already bested the 19% record low they set a 14 years ago. How dare Reid complain about the Iraqi government? He cannot even pass a budget. The immigration bill went poof on him. The sole bill that he’s passed was a minimum-wage amendment tacked onto an Iraqi funding bill."

Also of note at this time is this huge HUGE HUGE news report: the highest-ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq has been arrested. Michelle Malkin's Hot Air has all the juicy details, but suffice it to say that this guy is one of the top people in Al Qaeda. His purpose appears to be that of putting an Iraqi face on Al Qaeda to appeal to locals, and he was an intermediary between Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Big-time news, and a big-time victory for the U.S. When will Congress realize that we ARE winning this thing, and that they need to support our troops rather than short-circuit their efforts by legislating a premature retreat?

There's my two cents.