Congress. Listen up! Defund the war.

When I started this blog it was not my intent to constantly talk about war and politics. In large part the purpose of this blog is to vent what's on my mind, and I don't think I realized how much politics and the war are right at the forefront of my thoughts. As much as I try to get away from it; as much as I pretend to be paying less attention than I used to; I guess the truth is that my heart breaks for the state of our nation. I promise to talk about other things, but for now, the two of you who may occasionally read this will need to forgive me.

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So did you catch it? It was in the news for maybe a split second before being displaced by more speculation as to the parental suitability of the Britney bimbo and important notification of who got thrown off Dancing with the Stars. The item you're forgiven for possibly missing is that in a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll about 2/3 of Americans favor reducing or eliminating funding for the Iraq War. I've got to give the Shrub credit. I would have said it was virtually impossible to get 2/3 of Americans to agree on anything. Maybe he is (finally) a uniter.

Meanwhile, David Obey, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said yesterday that he won't let any supplemental war funding bill out of committee without a stated goal to end U.S. involvement in combat operations in 2009 and a commitment to allow adequate time at home between deployments of our soldiers. That is the best news I've heard in a long time. Let's hope it holds.

As for the rest of Congressional Democrats, WAKE UP!. The majority of Democrats, in fact the majority of Americans, expect you to end the war, and woe be unto you if you don't.