POLITICS-US: Republicans Cut and Run from Iraq and Bush

Republicans are running like crazy from the Bush White House. They're trying to save face for the next election. My thinking is, if the people didn't want you to do it in the first place, why did you do it at all? Isn't you job to do the work of the people that elect you?

From IPS:
"While nominally still loyal to the White House, Republican lawmakers are now distancing themselves from Bush, and especially from some of his more controversial policies like Iraq and the abuse of detainees in the "war on terror", with surprising alacrity.

In the wake of the party's poor performance in last week's off-year elections, as well as the continuing slide to unprecedented lows of Bush's public approval and credibility ratings, Republican senators have begun to seize control of policies that the White House has long insisted should be in its exclusive domain. "


POLITICS-US: Republicans Cut and Run from Iraq and Bush