Nonbinding, advisory deadlines - a sick co-dependency

bullshit...

Congressional Democratic leaders are moving to make their proposed timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq "advisory" as they seek to reconcile two versions of war spending legislation into a single bill that they plan to pass next week, according to several House members.

The compromise language would keep the deadlines included in the original House bill but make them nonbinding, as the Senate version did, and would allow President Bush to waive troop-readiness standards, lawmakers said. Bush has vowed to veto legislation with timetables in it, calling it a schedule of surrender, but Democrats hope to show that they are being flexible and the president rigid by softening the terms. The compromises may cost Democrats votes among antiwar liberals, but they hope to pick up some Republicans.

giving thoughtfully articulated, reasonable advice to the bush administration has proved to be a totally worthless exercise, and, after six-plus years, it's astonishing that anyone would even consider such a thing... picking up some republican votes is a craven coward's rationale and is disgusting in the extreme...

this ploy is equivalent to the battered spouse, after the umpteenth beating, telling her husband she's going to leave if he doesn't stop... it's playing entirely into the administration's hands, giving them the space and, essentially, the permission to continue doing whatever they goddam well please with zero accountability... standing aside and wringing one's hands when the "nonbinding" deadlines come and go without action is worse than no accountability at all... it's the worst kind of sick co-dependency...

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