Very well said, I am a Dem but will soon become an Independent. The Dem's have turned into spinless wimps, they lied to us, the will never get another dime from me. Leadership in nonexistent!

They seem to be going way out of their way to try to prove to me that Nader was right after all.

They don't need my money - they get their money from the same place the republicans do. Apparently, they don't even need my vote anymore.

The Repubs voted straight party line on the Boxer amendment. Half the Dems voted for the Republican resolution. There is no opposition to Bush, no matter how elections turn out. The two party system has got to go -- that's all that really matters anymore. This patient has been dead and stinking for years. Time to bury it.

Exactly correct MoveOn!

"Lots of readers have written in to urge that Democrats actually force the Republicans to filibuster, not merely cave at the threat. The prospect of a presidential veto is, in part, what makes that a pointless exercise for the Democrats. So for all the frustration about not being able to achieve a 60 vote majority, remember that 67 votes is the real bar to overcome.

--David Kurtz"

So they choose to waste time on frivolous bullshit like criticizing MoveOn instead?

The half of the Dems who voted for this bullshit are the problem. They are absolutely spineless cowards. Everything everyone has said here is true. The question is what needs to be done to change things. The only thing we can do is to recruit, run and elect more Democrats with balls. Any Democratic Senator voting for this bullshit is a coward plain and simple. There is at least some hope for those who had the balls to vote against this. I don't know what to make of Obama's high-tailing it outta there so he didn't have to cast a vote on this, but it certainly was not his finest hour. Anyone who wants to see change in our political system needs to press all of them on issues like this and others. It's just appalling that even on a little matter such as this how chicken so many Democrats are isn't it? This pretty well shows ya that there's no hope at all that this body of poltroons will do what it takes to cut off funding for the war.

What we're really hoping to see soon is some polling on the question of the importance the American public accords the Ad Heard Round The World.

My predictions.

Proportion of Americans who have never seen ad: 93%

Proportion of Americans who have seen ad, but just don't care: 89%

Proportion of Americans who think Moveon is some sort of moving company and/or gas station: 73%

Proportion of Americans who think Petraeus is someone who's auditioning for "Dancing with the Stars!": 43%

Proportion of Americans who think Congress is lamer than the lameduck President: 67%

Proportion of Americans who are slowly and sadly realizing that their elected representatives truly do not give a crap about their constituents: 55%, with a bullet.

Nice work, Senators.

In response to the Senate Democrats' vote today I have joined and made a contribution to MoveOn as I believe everyone posting here should who isn't already a member. Mr. Harry Reid, if you and your esteemed collegues think this is going away, you are seriously mistaken. Your gang has done precisely NOTHING to stand up to the thugs who carry the Bush banner in the Senate and you are the MAJORITY leader. When sir, when are you going to get down to business?

Does Bush have a dossier on all these Democratic senators? MoveOn is an independent organization and the Democrats can't even put up a fight to say "F**k to this rreprimand?