The Sunshine Empire

Just a bit of commentary on the situation with the Iraq War funding bill in the Senate.  The House of Representatives tonight passed yet another funding bill that has a time line for withdrawal from that hell hole that Dubya created.  Now it goes to the Senate where Harry Reid has indicated that he will call the Republican bluff and actually make them filibuster the bill.  Normal procedure in the last years has been to discuss a matter, have a vote to end debate, and when it does not muster the 60 votes needed the bill is pulled from the floor.  Now Harry has begun to indicate that he will actually not pull the bill and make Republicans do what they loath, talk about Iraq when they don’t need to.  I’ve never been one that was willing to go down the road of de-funding the war, but it is now time to stop giving Bush a blank check and make his few Republican allies put down an actual vote on this Iraq matter.

For all the bluster of demanding up or down votes when it came to judicial nominees, the Republican minority seems to think that the horrid tactics of using procedure in the Senate to get your way is standard operating procedure.  Well politics has a funny way of inducing amnesia and dementia in the standard American too caught up with that kid that fell down the well to decide on one of the most critical moments in American history.  What does chicken neck McConnell fear in having the bill pass?  Why does he fear an up or down vote to put every back woods Southern Republican on record as advocating keeping a war going that is bankrupting us and allowing every other trouble in the world to fester because of Cokie McSnortfuck’s trillion dollar expedition to settle a simple family score.  Not one single bit of fact can dissuade these corrupt fuckers to do the right thing and end this boondoggle.  That would mean that the vaunted Republican trust in war management is the farce that everybody that bothers to crack a history book has known for years.  They are willing to attempt to keep the party reputation in tact fueled by the blood on dead American soldiers.