I didn't vote for this horseshit:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they intended to hold symbolic votes in the House and Senate on President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad, forcing Republicans to take a stand on the proposal and seeking to isolate the president politically over his handling of the war.
Senate Democrats decided to schedule a vote on the resolution after a closed-door meeting on a day when Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts introduced legislation to require Mr. Bush to gain Congressional approval before sending more troops to Iraq...
The office of Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, followed with an announcement that the House would also take up a resolution in opposition to a troop increase. House Democrats were scheduled to meet Wednesday morning to consider whether to interrupt their carefully choreographed 100-hour, two-week-long rollout of their domestic agenda this month to address the Iraq war.
In both chambers, Democrats made clear that the resolutions — which would do nothing in practical terms to block Mr. Bush’s intention to increase the United States military presence in Iraq — would be the minimum steps they would pursue.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Well, there you have it. We now control both the Senate and the House, and can stop the Bush Junta's madness via the purse, and the best Reid and Pelosi can do is offer symbolic votes that "offer nothing practical." Oh, we get the carrot of "minimum steps." Yes. I'll hold my breath. I seem to recall in 2002 when my party controlled the Senate and made me blue in the face then, too.
We have heard for a long time that the Democratic Party is on probation with the American people. Here's another thought: the Democratic leadership is on probation with Democratic voters. And that probation is close to being violated.
It is one thing to decide not to pursue impeachment, given that it would accomplish little and might boost our madman president's poll numbers. It is quite another not to follower the lead of Sen. Kennedy and take substantive steps to end this war.
I worked the last election for a lot of things. One was to end the war. Another was to restore respectable leaders to Congress. I got neither.