So what does the Senate do when there is no overwhelming majority to take a firm stand about anything substantial regarding the war in Iraq? Why not argue about newspaper ads and radio hosts.
This week’s floor debate over Rush Limbaugh’s on-air reference to troops who oppose the Iraq war as “phony soldiers” comes on the heels of a Senate resolution condemning Moveon.org’s newspaper ad referring to Army Gen. David Petraeus as “General Betray Us.” Limbaugh poured more fuel on the flames yesterday by comparing one soldier-turned-war-critic to a suicide bomber duped by liberals who are “strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad to walk into as many people as he can walk into.”
Both sides in the Senate war debate seem to be searching for surrogates to argue about, since neither can muster enough votes for a clear position on George W. Bush’s war agenda.
The president must be smiling.
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