Wednesday’s Today Show carried several Democrat-friendly squibs. In his report from the White House, NBC’s David Gregory said the President “again tried to shame Democrats,” arguing that they are hurting the troops and fighting political battles. Gregory then suggested that Democrats don’t see their side as political: “What Mr. Bush dismisses as a political battle, Democrats consider a critical fight for control of Mideast policy.” Bush is thinking small, while the Democrats having the nation’s broader interest at heart. As if Bush doesn’t consider the Congress’s pacifist noises as an important indicator he needs to fight for control of Mideast policy.

But the more amusing section of the morning came a few minutes later, as Laura Ingraham on her radio show this morning. Appearing as a guest, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews boasted that not a single Democrat member of Congress lost a seat in 2006. “Nobody loses being against the war…I would be by the fall, you’re gonna see some Republican breaking with the President if this war doesn’t get better.”

Then Ann Curry asked about Nancy Pelosi: “She’s in Syria against the wishes of this administration. What does it say that she can do that?” Matthews said it shows that the American people are strongly in favor of cutting deals with state sponsors of terror in the name of peace: “It says that Democrats are confident that the American people want peace, the American people want to get along with those Arab countries and they’re happy to see somebody trying to cut a deal or open some doors to peace.”