Steyn on Defeaticrats

The perpetually interesting Mark Steyn today provides a Sunday column for the Chicago Sun-Times worthy of reading multiple times. His premise: that the invasion of Iraq has already been remarkably successful, and that the Bush administration has set and met various elements of a "timetable" (e.g. for transferring sovereignty, holding elections, completing a constitution, etc.) already.

He also uses the apt term "Defeaticrats" to refer to those members of Andrew Jackson's party who first objected that the transfer of sovereignty and the holding of elections were too soon and who now complain that nothing is happening soon enough.

Concerned that some gentle readers will not bother to follow the link, we quote the concluding paragraph in all its deliciousness:

So Bush has chosen to embark on a project every other great power of the last half-millennium has shrunk from: the transformation of the Middle East. You can argue the merits of that, but once it's underway it's preposterous to suggest we need to have it all wrapped up by Jan. 24. The Defeaticrats' loss of proportion is unworthy of a serious political party in the world's only superpower. In next week's election, the Iraqi people will shame them yet again.