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I'm trying to point out that the President is in deep trouble. He's losing his strongest supporters...ie: George Allen. And, until and unless the President stands up and defends himself, I will find it difficult to convict those who chose not to stand up and defend him.

I think you're going a bit far here. It's just not that dramatic.

The Dims were going to make some stink over Iraq during the remaining time in this session for their anti-military kooks. So the GOP, almost certainly following a Rovian strategy, came up with this meaningless resolution.

This is all political window-dressing, signifiying nothing. It pushes the whole issue into next year's election season when a more substantive debate will occur. By that time, we'll have more police working in Iraq and a successful election behind us and the Supremes will have weighed in on the legal limbo around Gitmo detainees.

It's called political management. You know, strategery? The neocon mouthpieces like Weekly Standard will have to strut around scolding everyone mightily over how the amateurs in the Senate are messing up their war. Personally, I find it droll to see the Kristol-haters turn to Kristol-lovers based on a single issue which panders to their skewed views.

Whether Allen deserves some bashing on other issues, I dunno. Personally, I think you should congratulate him as I am doing via email to my own senators. But this vote means nothing except to a few isolated kooks at the fringes of both parties. Unless we have an exceptionally dull political week, it won't even make more than 1-2 minutes on Sunday's talking head shows.