Chuck Hagel and Gordon Smith Vote to Surrender

We know the Democrats are the party of defeat.

We know that they're about surrender.

As Rudy Giuliani has said, the Dems want us to be on defense in the War on Terror.

So do two Republicans.

Two have joined the ranks of those voting for victory for our enemies -- Chuck Hagel and Gordon Smith.

WASHINGTON -- A defiant Democratic-controlled Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require the start of troop withdrawals from Iraq by Oct. 1, propelling Congress toward a historic veto showdown with President Bush on the war.

The 51-46 vote was largely along party lines, and like House passage of the same bill a day earlier, fell far short of the two-thirds margin needed to overturn the president's threatened veto. Nevertheless, the legislation is the first binding challenge on the war that Democrats have managed to send to Bush since they reclaimed control of both houses of Congress in January.

...Republicans Gordon Smith of Oregon and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska sided with 48 Democrats and Independent Bernard Sanders in supporting the bill. No Democrats joined the 45 Republicans in voting against it. Missing from the vote were GOP Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both staunch advocates of the president's Iraq policy.

"Largely along party lines"?

The Dems voted entirely along party lines.

They march in lockstep for America's defeat, with Hagel and Smith tagging along.

...Democrats said the bill was on track to arrive on the president's desk by Tuesday, the anniversary of Bush's announcement aboard the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.

That's great. Perfect timing.

Bush should put on his flight suit, whip out his veto pen, and send that disgraceful bill for defeat back with a note to the white flag Dems and RINOs: Mission Accomplished.