This week couldn't end too soon for the CodeKos-MoveOn-Sheehanistas.

Today the Senate voted down legislation that would have ordered most U.S. troops home from Iraq in nine months -- the latest disappointment for Democrats in a week that also saw the rejection of an anti-surge bill from Virginia's Jim Webb and another from Harry Reid and Russ Feingold.

Huffington Post blogger Bob Cesca captures the Left's disgust:

Prior to this embarrassing week of events on the Hill, the Democratic majority has acquiesced on war funding and have fallen over themselves backpedaling as fast as their trembling legs could carry them ...

But it was the Republicans' outmaneuvering of Democrats on the MoveOn.org "General Betray Us" ad that really irked some, including Time's Michael Kinsley:

Welcome to the wonderful world of umbrage, the new language of American politics. You would not have thought that the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly would be so sensitive. Sticks and stones and so on. Yet they all seem to have taken one look at that ad and fainted dead away. And when they came round, they demanded -- as if with one voice (or at least as if with one list of talking points) -- that every Democratic presidential candidate must "condemn" this shocking, shocking document.

The GOP, Kinsley contends -- with good reason -- is grandstanding on the issue.

But they're grandstanding because they can.

The Republicans instinctively understand that while a lot of Americans are frustrated with the war, few of us are inclined to cast our lot with the likes of these charmers, or this screeching bunch, or the smirking geniuses who thought spitting at the general was a good idea.

-- David Eldridge, managing editor, WashingtonTimes.com