Reply #29: Pragmatism, eh?

[Telly Savalas]

Wouldn't have been pragmatic to debate where the fuck the $100 billion occupation funding was going to come from? Is Obey going to pull the cash out of his ass, or are we going in debt even further? If we were going to spend $100 billion on health care, you damn well know that every motherfucker in the Beltway would gripe and moan about where the money's going to come from. But our poor defenceless Democratic majority couldn't be bothered to raise the issue.

Wouldn't have been pragmatic to put provisions in the war bill to ensure that the money is actually going towards militarily necessary objectives, and not just lining the pockets of the fat cats at Halliburton? How is this a bad idea? I'd really like to know.

Apologists for the party refuse to admit it, but there's a huge amount of middle ground between "Impeach Bush Yesterday" and the near-complete capitulation we've seen thus far from the Democratic majority.