Republican Senators a Little Slow on the Uptake

The headline on this NYT article made me laugh out loud:

Senators See Budget Shift on Iraq as Sign of Trouble

A "sign of trouble?" Just a sign? You'd think that perhaps when the military death toll reached 1,000 they'd have realized that something was wrong. Or maybe the first time BushCo. came back to Congress for an additional $20 billion. Maybe all the car bombings and IEDs should have been a sign.

Where the hell have these idiots been for the past year?

Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said today that the Bush administration's request to divert more than $3 billion from reconstruction work in Iraq to security measures was a sign that the American campaign in Iraq is in serious trouble.

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Mr. Hagel went on to say that the request for reprogramming the money "does not add up, in my opinion, to a pretty picture, to a picture that shows that we're winning. But it does add up to this, an acknowledgment that we are in deep trouble."

Do they not watch TV in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? Are they not allowed to read newspapers? Just because their president doesn't read anything - including Presidential Daily Briefs - doesn't mean they can't.

Who voted for these clowns?