A good sign

I've said a number of times, most recently just over a week ago, that ending the Iraq war ultimately can't be left to the Dummycrats but will instead require "tens of thousands of pissed-off Americans in the streets."

Well, it isn't "in the streets" but it's still a good sign that some of those who tied themselves to the donkey's tail and turned what was initially presented as an independent voice into little more than a shill for the party are showing clear evidence of pissed-off-edness. Greg Sargent at TPMCafe has the skinny:

MoveOn is privately demanding that House Dem leaders make key changes to their legislation on Iraq....

"We've communicated to the Speaker's office that we want tougher enforceability in the bill," [MoveOn's Washington director Tom] Matzzie tells me. "We want something that's got teeth."

Asked if the current bill doesn't have teeth, he said: "We want sharper teeth."

MoveOn apparently had much the same reaction I did to the decision to strip a funding cut-off from the bill, a decision that relies on the expectation that the Shrub gang would accept a declaration that the war becomes "illegal" after August 2008: That expectation, to the degree it is sincere, is to that same extent a touching but astonishingly naive - not to say brain dead - hope.