Congressional Democrats rode anti-war sentiment to victory last fall — but they are staking their success in the final months of this year’s calendar on more traditional domestic issues amid concern that the war may not be the potent political issue it once was by Election Day 2008.
With few Iraq votes expected in the next several weeks — a marked departure from the first nine months of the new Democratic-controlled Congress — Democrats are trying to build an agenda that’s heavy on health care, community policing, housing, tax reform and other issues.
This is not the 1960′s and the Democrats are gonna have to show they’re not just a one trick pony. They haven’t been able to drum up the Vietnam era anti-war sentiment so now it’s SCHIP and finding a creative way to raise taxes on everyone.
