There is Pointless, There is Fruitless, and Then There is Congress
We never know what exactly the direction a new Congress plans to take the country, but we figure that something fruitful will come of it. But as usual, Nancy Pelosi’s deft hand is guiding us in directions we never thought we’d see. Well…directions we’d never hoped to see again.
The Senate yesterday soundly rejected a symbolic bid to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq within a year, underscoring the lingering divisions within the Democratic Party over how hard to push President Bush to end the war.
Despite heavy public opposition to the conflict, 19 Democrats broke with their party’s antiwar leadership to oppose cutting off funding by March 31, 2008, joining 47 Republicans and one independent in the 67 to 29 vote against the measure. The Senate’s four Democratic presidential candidates were among the supporters of the measure, offered as an amendment to an unrelated bill, as House and Senate leaders prepared to negotiate a spending package that would fund the war through September.
We never understand this nonsense. Symbolic votes? What is this, fantasy football? Either vote for something concrete or don’t make a vote at all–you’re wasting our time when you could be voting on actual things.
Secondly, a symbolic vote should at least pass–you’re making no commitments and nothing will come of it even if it gets the majority vote. Instead, it fails, and you look doubly stupid. It almost tempts us to really give up on this nation and start calling for a vote for Larouche. We will resist the madness as long as we can, but the moment people consider him a serious candidate is the moment you KNOW the nation is in deep shit.
Symbolic Measure to End War Voted Down 67 to 29 in Senate [Washington Post]
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