Wow. Every time I think I have these guys figured out, they manage to sink to further depths. Today in the Senate, our esteemed public servants refused even to allow the possibility of debate on the Warner-Levin resolution (vote tally here).
Johnny Sununu, a man who pretends to be opposed to the escalation and who just late last week said this:
Sununu said the Warner resolution "is more consistent with my own views..."
And Judd Gregg, who contributed to this train wreck by proposing his own bogus resolution simply for the purpose of providing cover for his fellow Republicans' not voting for cloture on Warner-Levin. Either that or Judd is certifiably insane, since he apparently wants to cede all legislative power to the executive:
Against those competing resolutions are two others replete with political mischief-making. The first, drafted by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), recognizes the power of the president to deploy troops and the "responsibility" of Congress to fund them before stating, "Congress should not take any action that will endanger United States military forces in the field, including the elimination or reduction of fund."
We have got to defeat these tools of the Cheney Administration. One has no credibility, and the other is downright malicious. Both are so far away from their constituents on the war it is absurd. According to the Washington Post, Iraq is THE issue for Granite State voters:
Polls conducted by Research 2000 in late December found Democrats in both states strongly against the war, but the Republican picture was more complicated.
In New Hampshire, 92 percent of Democrats said going to war against Iraq for regime change was not worth it, and 78 percent said they favored a drawdown of troops before 2010, the year the Pentagon has set for maintaining its current troop levels.
...about a third of GOP voters surveyed in the two states [NH & IA] agreed with the overwhelming majority of Democrats on the two questions.
