In a bizarre, if not unpredictable, move, Rep Duncan Hunter, uber-weasel, has placed for a vote in the House, a Sense of the House resolution, calling for immediate withdrawal of the troops. This is supposedly to test the support for Rep. Murtha's resolution of yesterday.
This is, of course, from a Repug, outright fraud. The Murtha resolution did not call for immediate withdrawal, it suggested a sane redeployment. The Hunter resolution is just 'Out, Now'.
It is expected that any Dems that vote will vote 'present', which will lead to a pointless defeat of the resolution by a vote of 2oo-something to 0 (Hunter will, of course, vote against his own resolution.) The purpose of the resolution has been to put the Dems on record against the war; it will fail even in this attempt. The poor Repugs can't even fuck up right.
At least the Repug posturing on CSPAN is amusing in extremis.
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