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As we wind down Talk Like A Pirate Day, If there ever was a pirate council in American politics, it's MoveOn.org.  They're scurrilous, they play dirty, and they're degenerates in every sense of the word.  So when they announced that they had purchased the Democratic Party, that they own it, they can't be very happy with their captain, Senator Harry Reid.

Reid and the Democrats did their head-counting this afternoon, and thought they finally had a window of opportunity in order to declare rhetorical defeat in Iraq in the Webb troop rotation bill. The Democrats moved up the vote, tried to spring the anti-war trap, had one extra vote going in with the appearance of Tim Johnson, and got 56 votes, four short of what he needed. Reid got beat again.  Instead of marching through the Carl Levin defeat bill, or any of the myriad of defeat bills he had hinted was coming earlier in the day, Reid retreated.  As Joe Lieberman said to the media outside of the Senate chamber, the Webb amendment was the last chance of victory for the anti-Iraq crowd, and they lost.

So what's next for Senator Reid?  At some point, MoveOn.org is going to call the special Harry Reid hotline phone they installed on his desk.  What is Reid going to say?  At what point do the left start in on their own for failing to deliver time and time again? 

Fortunately for the Republicans, Harry Reid is a feckless leader of the Senate, a poor head-counter, and an even worse strategist.  He's not even a good pirate.