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Tony Snow Complains About Needing More Time

Here is what Tony Snow said on Sunday about a majority of both houses of Congress voting to make a public statement of no confidence in President Bush’s plan to send additional troops to Iraq:

He said President Bush should not see votes in Congress in opposition of his new Iraqi strategy as a rebuke.

“The strategy has barely had a chance to begin working,” Snow said.

I appreciate that President Bush has his own plan for how to fix the situation in Iraq, and I also appreciate that Tony Snow thinks this plan hasn’t been given enough time to see if it will work or not. But both of these men are missing the bigger picture here. We just had an election in November, and the voters didn’t vote for more war. The voters emphatically voted for less war, and the president is giving them just the opposite.

Here is President Bush boasting about the political capital he won in the 2004 presidential election:

Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style.

Mr. President, whatever political capital you believed you once had was resoundingly revoked this past November. Remember, I am your boss, not the other way around. You work for me. That is my style. My countrymen and I voted for less war in November. We voted to end the strategy of making our troops targets in someone else’s civil war. You were paying pretty close attention to that 2004 election. Why would you now so thoroughly disregard the 2006 version?