How can this backfire, when they are firing up the base..US in Freeper land?
I don't know why so many FReepers are gleeful about this. It's game-playing, the Republicans playing into the Democrats game. It makes a circus of Congress and trivializes the service of our troops. "Oh, goody!" you say, "now our troops are a political football." Get out the popcorn, watch the melee. How many of you happy spectators know what it's like to do what our troops are doing and then to receive news reports of ridiculous political grandstanding. I don't see anything to celebrate. There is no foreseeable benefit from this spectacle except to further lower morale. But ... don't let me spoil the fun.