Open Thread

“Iraq has the potential to be to the Republican Party on national security what the Depression was to the Republican Party on economics,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat who is chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

If it is, it will be purely because the Bush administration made it a Republican war from the outset. Actually, even before the outset…

What do you think? Is Rahm right? Will it happen?

Author: BooMan

Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.