Gordon Smith: GOP Colleagues Will Cave on War by September

A big tip of the hat to Loaded Orygun. They caught the following comment in an AP story:

Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon, one of two Senate Republicans to oppose the latest spending bill for the conflict, said the war "is a problem because it's defining our party to the American people, and the American people have lost faith in this cause."

"Many Republican colleagues are simply waiting until September," he said, citing the deadline Bush gave to Army Gen. David Petraeus for a progress report on the war. Unless there is a dramatic turnabout by then, Smith said, the party's near-unanimity is almost certain to fracture.

Loaded Orygun has some analysis. Discuss over there.

May 07, 2007 Posted in elsewhere.