It's strange how the repugs can accuse the Democrats of shirking their responsibilities on issues such as childrens' health care while wasting an afternoon on an impeachment vote when they did send a bill to expand CHIP, which Bush vetoed, while the repugs wasted time sensuring moveon.org for being impolite to a general. I do shake my head in wonder at the priorities of this congress, though, when they were elected to get us out of Iraq but keep voting to fund the war. Actually, I was at the Mass. Peace Action conference last winter, and someone mentioned someone in the Democratic leadership saying that they need the war to win in '08. So it wouldn't surprise me if the leadership was so focused on winning in '08 that they'll allow the war to go on, putting on the appearance of trying really hard to end it without actually taking any decisive action (like not supporting any bill to provide funding without a timetable for withdrawing).

It seems like organizations often become more interested in the perpetuation of the organization than in their original mission; perhaps politics is the same way.