I’ve been going through the first season of Rome on DVD and I can’t help but compare our Senate’s ongoing theater of the absurd to scenes of the Roman Senators in thrall to the sounds of their own voices while the Republic crumbles around them. I understand the Democrats’ desire to use the nonbinding resolution criticizing the troop buildup in Iraq as the springboard for more confrontational sparrings with the administration in the future. But I have to at least partially agree with Armando at TalkLeft. Americans don’t care about and aren’t paying attention to the political fencing match in the Senate. But I think they are ready for a full-throated debate on the future of our involvement in Iraq. Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to press the issue and force their colleagues on the other side of the aisle to engage in an open and honest dialog about the endgame of this debacle. Time is wasting and more people are dying every day.
