That's one way of looking at it. On the flipside, maybe they got what they needed on Iraq with just enough time left over to hammer away at their economic agenda, not just to show that they "feel our pain", but also to advance further market based stimuli, such as more tax cuts, raised caps on IRAs, and making permanent the existing tax cuts.
Further, it will highlight the fact that the Democrats don't have a positive agenda on foreign policy OR the economy. They made all this noise about Iraq, to what end? Nothing. All they did was delay the process. And on the economy, what is on their agenda, other than raising taxes?
What I would love more than anything would be for the President to address the American people in prime time, from the Oval Office, ala Ronald Reagan. He would outline his economic agenda, he would ask Americans to call their Congressmen and Senators and urge them to support the agenda. He would remind Americans that we have been through tough times before, but that we will come out stronger than ever. And then he should go and pray.
That's my free advice to the leader of the free world.
I am not looking at this as R's vs D's. The opposition is really the press in my experience.
It would be a waste of time at that this point. People are still refinancing their homes and taking 0% auto loans.
My credit union is offering refinancing on the zero interest car loans. There are people that can't meet the conditions of the loans from the car companies, but thought they could when they got the loan..