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Politics is about one thing: votes. The democrats won the Congress in 2006 by adopting an anti-war platform. President Bush, a republican, started this war, and with American sentiment quickly veering against the war in Iraq it was an obvious move on their part. Conversely, republican lawmakers knew that an anti-war stance would certainly help their mission of keeping control of Congress, but miraculously they mostly sided with the president and the war, and they paid the price. This stunning show of solidarity will not happen again. The cost is too high.

Members of Congress care very little of national affairs come election time, regardless of their poetic oration of American pride. They represent a specific district, in a specific state, with specific interests. Their political sensibilities will reflect that of their respective constituencies. With the country so unbelievably, and evenly divided on so many issues of monumental importance the republicans thought they would be able to show party loyalty and still keep the Congress. They were disastrously wrong.

The war continues to go in a horrific direction. American soldiers are dying at an accelerated rate. President Bush's popularity is as low as it has ever been. With the 2008 elections looming on the horizon, more and more congressional republicans will jump ship and abandon, wisely, their party loyalty; if they want even a snowball's chance in hell of regaining a majority in the Congress, or even of keeping their slim majority intact.

President Bush is an executive nightmare. His reckless disregard for law, common sense, and the American people's demands will only serve to solidify his place in history amongst the worst American presidents ever, if not the worst. Congressional republicans would be ridiculously foolish if they did not jump ship, forget about party solidarity, and try to do the right thing. They might just save their own necks if they do.

The war in Iraq was the issue in 2006, and it will be again in 2008. In the contentious districts throughout the country, republicans will indeed pull their support for Bush and the war, if they value their political futures.

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