When I was a sophomore in college, I had to learn how to cook, primarily because I had to at least once a week for my roommates.  The first meals I started to cook were based primarily on a recipe, especially ones with pictures.  I did this so that I could see if I were on the right track.

I’d get all my ingredients together, and start cooking.  For the first couple of months, I would be really nervous.  No matter what I cooked, and no matter how many times I had already cooked it previously, sometime within the middle of the cooking time, I would get worried because the dish cooking in the pot didn’t even remotely resemble the picture.  (One recipe in particular sticks my mind.  I don’t remember what I was cooking, but the cookbook showed the meal as being a bright reddish orange, while my pot was green and yellow.)

I kept telling myself, "It’s okay.  It’s okay.  You’re not done yet.  It will hopefully look right in the end."

I pressed forward in fear because I had to feed five people in 15 minutes and it was already too late to do anything else.

In the end, the meal turned out perfectly!

So why tell a story about cooking?  Frankly, I think our politicians can learn a thing or too from this story.There have been many debates about the war in Iraq.  I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard democrats saying, "The American people want an end to the war!"  I don’t know about everyone else, but I don’t!

Harry Reid, Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, et al…You do not speak for me!

Yes, I still support the war!  Yes, I still think we’re there for a good reason.  And yes, I still believe that we should have gone in when we did.

In the last month, there have been growing reports that the latest troop surge is working, that both civilian and military deaths have significantly decreased.  In fact, more and more reports are showing vast improvements about the conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan.  But democrats, even facing these reports, still demand that the troops be brought home because the Iraq war is wrong.

It occurred to me last night that democrats are like me when I’m cooking: they are stuck in the recipe with 15 minutes left and they are panicking because the meal doesn’t look like the pretty picture.

I’ve asked this before: why does it seem that the democrats can’t see pass the present?

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