....empty suit than George W. Bush?

Obama is not an empty suit; and the fact that he doesn't have Washington D.C. experience speaks of the possibility that he might, successfully, try to do things differently and better.

I too regret the Congress' failure to just stop funding the war in Iraq. The only rationale I can come up with it that if Congress refused to fund the troops, the President would take the money from other sources, but, in his arrogance, would not remove the troops, no matter what.