Victor Davis Hanson notes:

…The truth about Iraq is that, for all the tragedy and the loss, the U.S. military performed a miracle. After nearly seven years, a constitutional government endures in that country. It is too often forgotten that all 23 of the writs for war passed by the Congress in 2002 — from enforcing the Gulf I resolutions and stopping the destruction of the Kurds and Marsh Arabs, to preventing the Iraqi state promotion of terrorism, ending suicide bounties on the West Bank, and stopping Iraq from invading or attacking neighbors or trying to acquire WMD — were met and satisfied by the U.S. military. It is also too often forgotten that, as a result, Libya gave up its WMD program; Dr. Khan’s nuclear franchise was shut down; Syria left Lebanon; and American troops in Saudi Arabia, put there as protection against Saddam, were withdrawn…

Our troops behaved magnificently – their courage and devotion has won a major victory. This is also very much President Bush’s victory, as without him it would never have been started, and never carried through. This victory should be the signal of a new Middle East – a reformed Moslem world, but I fear that Obama’s temporizing attitude towards Iran and other threats will lose us the ultimate fruits of victory.

But nothing can take away what the troops did – in spite of all odds and immense difficulties and heart breaking losses, they carried out their duty and won what so many people said could not be won. They have proven themselves the worthy successors of the soldiers of America’s past wars.

From CNS News:

…When Obama was inaugurated last year, Americans who said they never or seldom go to church were more likely to approve of the job he was doing as president than Americans who said they attended church every week or Americans who said they attended church nearly weekly or monthly…

…In the week of Aug. 23-29, according to Gallup, only 48 percent of those who never or seldom go to church said they approved of the job Obama was doing. Meanwhile, 49 percent of those who go to church nearly weekly or monthly said they approved, and 34 percent of those who attend church weekly said they approved…

One does wonder, a bit, just why this should be. After all, Obama is pretty much being what every intelligent observer expected – and the unbelievers claim they are much, much smarter than we believers. You’d have expected such smart people to have looked carefully in to Obama’s views and background and only come to support him as the result of rational thought.

Unless, of course, the old saw is true – people who don’t believe in God don’t believe nothing, they believe anything.

From Ed Morrisey over at Hot Air:

Remember when both the Republican and Democratic Parties tried to insist that Arlen Specter was the only path to victory in Pennsylvania? A new poll by Reuters and Ipsos puts a stake through the heart of that argument once and for all. Pat Toomey leads Joe Sestak in the Senate race by ten points, but Arlen Specter would be losing it to Toomey by 12…

Morrisey notes that with the gubernatorial race also slipping away from the Democrats, the votes down ballot for House seats may also crater for the Democrats. Pennsylvania could end up quite red on November 2nd.

More and more, “wheels coming off the cart” describes the Democrats’ predicament.

Got the details over at Noonan for Nevada.

The third sitting Senator to fall in the primaries in 2010.