Thomas Sowell offers his comments on the Democrats' rhetoric, and their gamble in Iraq. One of their gambles is that they will be allowed sufficient time before their base holds them to their rhetoric.
One of the dangers in being a demagogue is that some of your own supporters — those who take you literally — can turn against you when you start letting your actions be influenced by realities, instead of following the logic of your ringing rhetoric.
That is what seems to be happening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other liberal Democrats in Congress.
Antiwar protesters in Washington and outside her home in San Francisco are denouncing Pelosi and other congressional Democrats for not cutting off the money to fight the war in Iraq.
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