Blogosphere fury at Dems on Iraq vote. (cover story)

ACTIVISTS; POLITICAL participation; POLITICAL parties; LEGISLATIVE bills; PUBLIC spending

The article reports that liberal online activists have criticized congressional democratic leaders for not passing a supplemental spending bill with a timeline to end the Iraq war in the U.S. Liberal activists have been unable to push House and Senate Democratic leaders on a range of issues including ending the war. Some Democrats have promised to use the regular defense process and other legislative vehicles to end the war but nothing they have said seemed to gain the party's left wing.