President Bush spoke today on Iraq and the testimony of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have both followed the speech with their views. I cannot help but be struck by the faltering, unsteady delivery of their positions. They stammered through their rebuttals as if they had no conviction in the same old liberal talking points they have endlessly spewed for months, if not years.

And nor should they. Rather than acknowledge any success whatsoever, they continue, in the face of enormous evidence that the surge is actually working, albeit in a fragile tenuous way, to deny and refute the obvious facts. Clinging to their empty rhetoric and grasping for words to try to spin the situation as a failure rather than the obvious success it appears to be, they show the Democrats as weak, feeble, and ineffectual.

I hate to use the word pathetic once again, but no other word describes their limp, vacuous blather quite as succinctly.