You have to give Democracts credit for sticking to their guns.  Despite the president’s threat to veto any troop withdrawlk bill, despite waffling within the party, and most of al despite right wingers attempts to paint this bill as anti-troop the Democrats are not backing down.  That is a big change from where the party was just a short while ago.  Granted, Democrats have a vast majority of the country on their side this time, so that makes it easier to defy this so-called war president, and defy him they are.  The bill make not even make it to the president’s desk to veto, but at least the Dems are finally standing up.

There are many reason someone might invoke the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.  Usually, it means you’ve committed a crime, but former Justice Department official Monica Goodling’s reasoning that Democrats have already drawn conclusion about what she did or did not do just doesn’t ring true for me.  If you have nothing to hide, why invoke the fifth?