Blog: So What Happened?

So what happened?

That is the question asked Tuesday morning by the editorial board at the Washington Times. What did happen between last Thursday, and this past Sunday, when the Majority Leader promised to give Republicans a chance to to actually participate in the debate on this week's Iraq resolution?

We ask because on Thursday Mr. Hoyer pledged that "Republicans will be given either a substitute or a motion to recommit so that they can propose whatever substantive alternative that they choose" in regards to this week's debate on the Democrats' nonbinding resolution opposing the administration's troop surge in Iraq. But on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Mr. Hoyer, seated beside Minority Leader John Boehner, said that allowing Republicans to offer an alternative resolution is "not necessarily our plan at this point in time."

We could all comment on the point of a non-binding resolution, but maybe a person who is among the leaders for the Democrat nomination for president could sum it up more succinctly:

For now, all the Democrats have the strength for is a nonbinding resolution that opposes the troop surge. That kind of resolve was nicely ridiculed by presidential aspirant John Edwards, who compared it to a child "standing in the corner and stomping his feet."

Yep, that'll do it.

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