Lame Duck Poop: An Homage

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Back in mid-September, man's man and Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that stated that any new security agreement negotiated between the United States and the Government of Iraq would not remain in effect unless approved by Congress. As explained here previously, it was an effort to prevent the current President from going rogue and shutting Congress out of arrangements for the US to stay in Iraq.

It seemed like an obvious win; Congress voting to keep Congress pertinent. The amendment failed. In committees, amendments must gain a unanimous voice vote in order for it to gain approval. A staffer for Webb tells us that a lone voice voted nay, and killed the measure. Who would vote against giving their own governing body oversight? Staffer did not know, and our research, lazy and slow as it is, was unable to find out.

So wipe those tears of joy from your eyes. Sure, the crazy lady we had an eight year affair with, who boiled our kid's pet rabbit and destroyed our social status in the neighborhood is lying dead in the bathtub. The end credits are rolling and the music is fading up while we're all feeling for our car keys and half-standing in our seats in order to get to the urinals first. Just remember, she isn't really dead and that knife is still in her hands.



"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever
figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
--George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008




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