Get Your War Off

Feingold.

What I think is happening is that the Washington consultants, particularly those
who were part of the previous Democratic administration, come in to a room with
the leadership and tell them, "Look, if you propose a timeline or if you try to
cut off the funding Republicans will tear you apart. So I think it comes from
the other side. I think it comes from the Washington inside crowd that sets the
parameters of this debate. This Washington inside crowd was for this war and
they can't figure out how to get out of this situation. . . . So this assumption that somehow it's Democratic Senators coming in saying you know this is a tough vote for me--I don't think that's where it's coming from. I think it's coming from the power structure in Washington that's desperately trying to figure out how to explain how they made one of the biggest mistakes in the history of our country. And that's why you have to go right at them. The people of this country want this over. Washington consultants supported this. So it's us versus them on this issue.

Emphasis mine. Thank you, sir. It definitely explains the actions of the media and power brokers. For them the only real crisis is if we do what Feingold suggests we do.