Baited

…and taken.

Part of me would have just loved to have been in the backrooms of the Senate chambers as a beleaguered Republican minority drew straws to see who of those in the most vulnerable seats (sorry Sununu, I went last time…) were allowed to vote for open debate on the Warner-Levin resolution (seems only yesterday a pissy ex-Senator by the name of Frist was pounding his fist about “up or down votes”). Oh ya, it’s circle the wagons time on the beltway for the GOP.

But here’s the sad part,

“The thing about the Vietnam War that troubles me as I look back was, it was a political war,” Mr. Bush told Tim Russert on Sunday on “Meet the Press.” “We had politicians making military decisions. And it is lessons that any president must learn, and that is to set the goal and the objective and allow the military to come up with the plans to achieve that objective.”

“The sad part,” the “on the other hand,” is that it’s the troops who pay when our leaders don’t grasp the lessons they pay lip service too. And It’s you and I who pay as well. Republicans have been playing politics with this war all along. If we stay this course our Nation will be subsumed by debt, just as Russia was in Afghanistan. The only way we can win this War is to bring the troops home.

A respectful nod to Jen at Donkey O.D.

Update: The list is in.

Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Larry Craig (R-ID)
Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Pete Domenici (R-NM)
Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Gordon Smith (R-OR)
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
John Sununu (R-NH)
John Warner (R-VA)

-Sununu and Smith are goners.