Stephen Hadley told Brit Hume yesterday that Bush had enjoyed "a pretty good week" when it came to obstructing Democratic efforts to rein in Iraq. He was right. The converse -- that we had a pretty bad week -- is also true. The debate on Iraq got out of hand, as Democrats pursued too broad a legislative strategy and weren't able to mount the sustained political pressure needed to see it through. In the process, the GOP blocked some important policy, while other legislation -- notably Senator Lieberman's Iran Amendment -- saw light it should never have seen.
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