Remember a few weeks ago when a couple of congressional Republicans came out against the war and the media/left was all clamoring about how Bush was being abandoned by his party, and that he’d have to “go it alone” on the war?

Turns out that was just a bunch off liberal spin.

A funny thing happened on the way to the much-heralded break with the White House by Republican senators and House members uneasy with George W. Bush’s war strategy: They voted.

This month’s roll calls on Capitol Hill simply did not reflect all the tough talk about dissatisfaction from GOP lawmakers. When it came time to say “yea” or “nay” on the latest round of proposals for drawing down troop levels in Iraq, only eight of the Capitol’s 250 Republicans (that’s 3 percent of them) sided with the Democrats — despite plenty of body language suggesting that a mass GOP defection was in the offing.

Of course, things may change in September when Petraeus gives his report to Congress.  If that report is bleak, or if the press/Democrats manage to convincingly spin it into something bleak, the war will be over.  Because I don’t think there’s enough Republicans in Congress wielding a spine to stick it out in the face of that.

But for now, the Republicans stand united.