A group of 11 moderate Republican congressmen went to the White House yesterday and told President Bush and some of his closest advisors the war in Iraq is hurting GOP chances at the polls in November 2008. Unless the situation improves by late summer or early fall he will begin to lose big support in the House of Representatives, they said. The one cardinal rule all politicians follow is "survival." You can bet your best underwear that any Republican congressman being challenged in November will jump off the ship in a heartbeat when faced with voter disfavor over continued support for a civil war. If the Iraqi assembly takes two months off this summer it is a foregone conclusion the situation in the fall will be no better than it is now: miserable. Our SC 1st district congressman, Rep. Henry E. Brown, was not among the moderates at the meeting. He has been issuing press releases accusing Democrats of undermining the troops in Iraqi by refusing to give President Bush another $100 million without strings. He ignores the fact that the Pentagon has enough money to keep things going well into July and a bi-partisan deal is in the works to provide funding through September when the next appraisal of the war will be made.
