Why Democrats won't take the short cut to ending war (not letting funding bill to floor)

[yurbud]

The obvious answer is that too many are beholden to the same corporate donors as the GOP or want to be, but a subtler answer is that if they end the war by keeping a spending bill from the floor, in a decade or so when the public forgets that the war was unpopular and a losing proposition, the GOP can truthfully say the Democrats ended the war all by themselves--and then they'll tack on a lie that the war was winnable with a few more dollars, troops, and years.

I do not agree that this is a good reason to wait to end the war until Bush or Congressional Republicans sign on, but it is probably part of the calculus Congressional Democratic leaders are making.