I'm not sure what I can add to the things that have already been said about the cowardly House resolution of defeat that had Nancy Pelosi grinning like the Cheshire Cat.  It makes me ill that a bunch of mealy mouthed legislators spent the week grandstanding and posturing and making hypocritical noises about "supporting the troops".  I guess they think they're kidding someone.

Thank goodness for my Senator, Mitch McConnell, who kept enough of the GOP Senators together to block a similar vote in the Senate.  You can find the text of his entire speech at The Corner. Money quote from his speech before the Senate.

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The majority party in the Senate wants to vote on a resolution that condemns the President’s plan and which “disagrees” with Gen. Petraeus, who said before he left for Iraq that additional troops are an “essential” part of achieving our goal. They are doing this three weeks after voting, without dissent, to send Gen. Petraeus on this mission. And they are doing it in the form of a non-binding resolution that will have no practical effect on our conduct of the war.

Americans have a right to demand why the U.S. Senate has not yet taken a clear stand on what most of us believe to be our last, best chance at success. So let us be clear at the outset of this debate about what’s going on today, about what Republicans are fighting for today. Republicans are fighting for the right of the American People to know where we stand. If you support this war, say so. If you don’t, say so. But you cannot say you are registering a vote in favor of our troops unless you pledge to support them with the funds they will need to carry their mission out.

Yet this is precisely what the Democratic majority would have us do today. They demand that Republicans cast a vote in favor of a nonsensical proposition that says: “We disapprove of the President’s plan to deploy more troops to Iraq, but we support the members of the Armed Forces who are serving there.” A vote in support of the troops that is silent on the question of funds is an attempt to have it both ways. So Republicans are asking for an honest and open debate. And we are being blocked at every turn.

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Here's hoping we all keep the pressure up on the Senate and House to prevent our oh-so-courageous representatives from blocking funding for the troops they claim to support.