Knowing When to Say When

President Bush has a history of not knowing when to say when. Despite his remaining clean and sober for years, the President currently struggles with a new addiction: Iraq.

Every morning the President awakes to the most hellacious war-induced hangover imaginable. Day after day the Iraq war consumes his presidency. Unfortunately, the devastating consequences of President Bush's Iraq addiction are taxing the American public to no end. Increasing amounts of blood and treasure are consumed the President continues down his destructive stay-the-course path.

Congressional Democratic leaders are attempting an intervention. Yet their intervention is continually undermined by the President's Republican colleagues. Instead of forcing the President to come to terms with reality, Republican lawmakers are facilitating business as usual in Iraq. Not only are they facilitating a failed policy, but they are working hard to win the debate for the failed policy. The so-called party of personal responsibility doesn't know when to say when.