Shenanigans still. We vote in a new congresional crop and gain a slim Democratic majority. Has it done us any good yet?
Obviously the GOP did not get the message that we (the people) want something done about this war - and something done about this run-amok administration. The GOP blames the election on corruption and is still in denial about the vote for change in Iraq. An anti GOP / Bush vote if anyone cares to take notes.
2008 is going to be even more devastating than 2006 for the GOP if they do not get their act together and stop enabling this administration.
Chuck Hagel is excused from this criticism. He obviously has a handle on reality. One of the few in DC.
Yet Novak credits the Democrats’ tactic as sound and says that it was somewhat successful. “They tried to vote on the Iraq strategy, and Republicans stopped them,” he writes. “Given the war’s unpopularity, that is something of a Democratic victory.”
Novak adds, however, that Republicans “believe they would have been worse off had they been divided in a simple vote for or against” the President’s troop surge. “That would have been embarrassing to the entire Republican Party, as committed as it is now to success in Iraq,” he continues. “Republicans prefer to avoid such a vote altogether.”
Next time someone tells you what a wonderful democracy we have going here, you might want to mention that the Senate, our most important deliberative body, will not allow itself to consider the wisdom of escalating a ruinous war that virtually everyone in the world opposes, save the increasingly detached-from-reality-and-discredited-leaders who insist on continuing it.
