I read the first paragraph of this AP article and my head started spinning:
Republicans dismissed as political theater a Democratic plan for an all-night session of the Senate to debate President Bush’s military strategy in Iraq amid bipartisan proposals to redeploy U.S. troops.
So actually having a debate on how to end a war that has killed 3,600 of our own soldiers is “political theater”? If that is political theater, then what do you call this?
We have lost over 3,400 soldiers since this act of “political theater”.
How about a bunch of GOP senators arguing and fighting to give the “surge” time, only to say it isn’t working a month later? These people are up for re-election and that makes it one very disgusting example of “political theater”.
How about Mitch McConnell filibustering every piece of legislation that comes out of the Democrats? That isn’t just “political theater”, that is obstructionism – especially when the same McConnell complained about the Democrats threatening one filibuster on a judge.
If these Republicans don’t want to do their job and debate, then they need to just leave the Senate. Debating the war isn’t “political theater” to the soldiers over their fighting, nor their families. It isn’t “political theater” to the loved ones of the 3,600+ soldiers that have fallen.
Isn’t debating a key part of democracy? Isn’t democracy what we are fighting for? So why is it the Republicans want to see our democracy fail? Sounds like they are aiding the enemies. I bet al-Jazeera is playing sound bites of these Republicans saying things like that. Also think about what it is doing to the morale of our troops! Perhaps the Democrats need to pull those old lines out of the Republican playbook.