Associated Press: Cutting Funding Would "Undermine The Troops"
March 16, 2007 -- 6:50 AM EST // // Post a Comment

This is a small thing, but worth a quick note -- if only because it's another sign of just how thoroughly some have absorbed this absurd GOP talking point. Here's the Associated Press reporting on the battle between Congressional Dems and the White House over Iraq:

Democrats won control of the House and Senate in November, fueled in large part by the public's weariness with war. Yet asserting influence is tricky for Democrats. They have the power of the purse but don't want to undermine the troops.

This might have read that Dems fear being made to appear to undermine the troops, or that they fear being accused of undermining the troops. But the AP is now reporting as objective fact that cutting funding would "undermine the troops." Nice.