The Stinky Inky Is "Yakin' Iraq"

(Trying to get back to a routine after all the weather-related stuff...)

Awww, the Inquirer Editorial Board is maad because the U.S. House Dem leadership won’t allow Repug amendments to the admittedly toothless resolution sponsored by the Dems opposing the Iraq war.

The resolution is more important symbolically and represents the commencement of debate about funding, which should be the main congressional duty regarding the war, but because the war has been a flawed, failed enterprise from start to finish, with the voters of this country tossing out the Repug leadership last November that refused to conduct oversight (notwithstanding the pigheaded intransigence of President Numbskull), it is incumbent on Congress and the Democrats to offer an alternative.

I don’t really care about supposedly “silencing” debate on the resolution (and it’s not as if we didn’t see John Boehner speaking out against it; indeed, David Espo of the AP notes here that “Democrats and Republicans took their five-minute speaking turns across the hours”…nice to see Espo taking a break from his ridiculous editorializing about Democrats supposedly undermining support for the war). Silencing debate on funding, though, would be another matter; I’d like to see the Dems totally get their way, but even though the Repugs stomped all over the Dems every way they could when they held the reins, they should get their say on the funding issue also.

Besides, as Marty Kaplan of HuffPo notes here, the Senate Repugs led by Mitch McConnell are filibustering against a resolution to bring a debate on Iraq to the Senate floor (but gosh, I thought, according to Borderius Ignoramus, that Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell had formed a warm relationship of personal trust, or some such nonsense – I’m shocked…just shocked!).

Update: You go, Harry!

Finally, in its coverage of the debate yesterday, the Inquirer included a one-paragraph excerpt of Patrick Murphy’s fine opening remarks on the debate, affording him about the same space as that given to Georgia troglodyte Lynn Westmoreland, who said that if we pull out of Iraq, “the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats.”

I seriously wonder if the Inquirer would have given a Repug congressman who had served in Iraq the same treatment as they gave Patrick, but why should I expect anything better than this from Philadelphia’s conservative shouting box “of record”?