If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em

So says Congressman Joe Donnelly….apparently.

“I feel we’ve made progress, and the other part is I feel we can see an end game in sight,” Donnelly, D-Ind., told reporters on a conference call Tuesday from Washington. “It isn’t we just keep plugging away in the hopes something will turn out right. Gen. (David) Petraeus is working a plan and we seem to be heading toward a place where the Iraqis can be self-sustaining and we’ll have a smaller presence in the background.”

That message seems completely counter to the Joe we recall back in January of this year. Remember when he voted to condemn the troop increase (a.k.a., “The Surge”) in Iraq that President Bush called for in the beginning of the year? To paraphrase 2004 presidential loser John F. Kerry, “Joe Donnelly was against the surge before he was for it.” But apparently, that’s just par for the course now with Democrats.

See the thing is, Joe isn’t the only Democrat to start singing a happy tune about Iraq. He’s just following the chain of command that started with Dingy Hairy Reid in changing the Democrats message on Iraq.

The again, we’ve been seeing clearer signs of success in Iraq since the surge started, but it’s not been news until the Democrats felt like they needed a piece of victory pie to shore up their lousy congressional approval ratings. And let’s not forget that their ratings are lower than the president’s. I know Joe and the rest of the Democrats hate to say it, but it looks like the President knew what he was doing with the troop insurgence after all.