Right Voices

This was to be expected although it will not stop the POTUS from sending the troops.  I do need to make this point though;  For a party that was so concerned about the POTUS overstepping his authority, they have no qualms about overstepping theirs!

 The Senate Finance Committee passed Wednesday on a 12-9 vote a nonbinding resolution that concludes “it is not in the national interest of the United States” to deepen U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

The measure now goes to the Senate floor for a vote before the full chamber, which is expected sometime next week.

It vote is the first attempt by the new Democratic-controlled Congress to check President Bush’s authority to send more troops to Iraq. The measure was opposed by all the panel’s Republicans except co-sponsor Sen. Chuck Hagel.

“We better be damn sure we know what we’re doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder,” said Hagel of Nebraska before the vote.

Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., the panel’s chairman, said the legislation is “not an attempt to embarrass the president. … It’s an attempt to save the president from making a significant mistake with regard to our policy in Iraq.”

Some Republicans agree that the president’s plan seems unlikely to make a significant step toward reducing sectarian violence in Iraq and finding a political solution, but several Republicans said the resolution sent the wrong message.

“I oppose this nonbinding resolution on the basis that it’s the wrong tool” for Congress to use to get the president to change his policy, said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., ranking member on the panel. Lugar admitted he is “not confident that President Bush’s plan will succeed.”

“It is unclear to me how passing a nonbinding resolution that the president has already said he will ignore will contribute to any improvement or modification of our Iraq policy,” Lugar continued. “The president is deeply invested in this plan, and the deployments … have already begun.”

Why do the media as well as the Demcrats refer to Republicans, as in more than one, supporting this?  There is one, therefore wouldn’t it be more honest to say Democrats and 1 Republican support this?