I also think Obama's pledge for more troops in Afghanistan is a failed attempt to be bipartisan again. The right wing is hoping they can push off health care debates until next year and are using the troop increases to make that happen. Democrats, sackless as ever, sit back and fret about how they can levy an additional tax on the troop surge, not realizing that the GOP succeeded in their goal of dragging out the health care debates longer, as more Americans get pissed that the opportunity to get easily accessible, affordable health care escapes their grasp. This also gives the teabaggers a chance to collect themselves and attack again with neurotic Democrats puzzled as to why public support of the public option wanes, without realizing that they let a good opportunity slip through their hands.
Then when vulnerable Democratic seats get sacked next November, the same Democrats will stand around looking confused, wondering why they get railroaded.