Congress is not powerless here. It has an awesome power: to deny funds for the war and thereby end it entirely. If Levin wants U.S. combat operations to end by April 2008, he can simply work to cut off any funding past that date. But Democrats aren’t willing to weather the political attacks that would come with cutting off funding for troops in the field. On Meet the Press Sunday, Levin went so far as to call such a cut-off “the wrong thing to do, morally.” So he is denying to himself and his party the one constitutional and effective way to stop the war. Such are the contortions of a party that doesn’t have the courage of its antiwar convictions.

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