If I hear one more Democrat or Democratic talking head (as I am right now on Hardball) utter some variation of the following, I am going to blow my gasket:
The reason we support the non-binding resolution is because the voters sent a clear message…
Steve McMahon, some strategist for the Democrats, just said this a few times, and I almost threw my remote at the television. In short, Steve (and the rest of you), NO NO NO NO NO!
The reason to support the non-binding resolution is to do anything you can without cutting off funding to get this President to seriously confront the problem in Iraq. The reason to support the resolution is because this administration didn’t even listen to the people who came up with the idea and are now half-ass implementing it. The reason to support the resolution is to acknowledge that right now, with this President and this administration, we are probably doing little more than throwing more good lives down the drain.
Not because the voters sent a clear message. Hell, we are idiots. Some of us voted for Bush. Twice. We liked the Macarena and watch Tom Cruise movies and bought Pet Rocks and eat too much fatty foods and don’t work out enough and so on. We, collectively*, don’t know what the hell we are talking about or what is good for us.
You support the resolution because it is the right thing to do to try to get this administration to honestly change course in Iraq. Not because the morons (myself included), sent a clear message.
* I do, however, think individuals do, for the most part, know what is best for them.