Reality check ...

While we've all been ecastatic over the Dem victory in November, it's time for a dose of reality. Paradox over at Steve Soto's place has a well thought out scenario of what's probably gonna happen as we move forward:

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Assuming the Democrats got 51 votes for a bill to stop the war (one hell of an assumption), are there 16 Senate Republican votes to override the veto? Dream on. Assuming there is, what happens when Bush flatly orders the Army and Marines to stay in the war anyway even if there isn't any money? As CIC he can make them do that. What would the Joint Chiefs do then?

Congress isn't going to stop the war with bills that cut off funding, just forget it, it's naive and counter-productive to espouse they can. The Democrats are not capable of it, period, the Republicans will not go along and already a very hostile media environment is framing the election as one that "...reflected a desire among the American people for the congress to stop fighting and work together." Yes, that's our American "journalism" corps, such shining warriors of Truth.

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Good points (and more in the rest of the post), though not what most of us want to hear. That said, we can do something the Rethugs probably can't; work within the existing reality to affect change. The idea is to keep on the Dems' ass to do the right thing, and those of us with Rethug reps should hound 'em, reminding them they will have to face reelection sooner or later.