The R's strawman resolution: stand-up comedy at a funeral

gutting murtha's resolution to make it appear that he was calling for immediate, unconditional withdrawal from iraq when his original resolution specifically stated that forces should "be redeployed at the earliest practicable date," both guaranteeing defeat and attempting to cast murtha and the democrats as cowards, is political behavior at its most despicable... juan cole speaks...

Republicans in Congress responded to Murtha's considered plan by introducing a phony resolution that bore little resemblance to Murtha's [the original resolution can be read here], and then helping defeat it overwhelmingly. The intent was apparently to force the Democrats either to look as though they were in favor of "cutting and running" or to vote against immediately withdrawing US troops and so associating themselves with Bush's 'stay the course' policy. The Republican straw man resolution was:

' Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately.

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the deployment of United States forces in Iraq be terminated immediately. '

Well, this stupid resolution is not what Murtha was saying, and the vote on it is meaningless. It is worse than meaningless. It is political clowning.

Indeed, given the GIs being blown up on a daily basis, the Republican phony resolution was the equivalent of trying to do a stand-up comedy routine at the funeral of someone's beloved son who had died at age 20.

I don't think the American people will find it amusing. We'll see in 2006 whether they did.

i've felt many times that i had suffered the last straw and each time i have found that the last blow was yet to be delivered... it's hard for me to grasp the depravity of what i'm witnessing and can only pray that it's the darkness before the dawn...

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