Headlines As Victories

By Creature

CNN: House passes spending bill with Iraq deadline

If headlines are victories, then today's passing of the war spending bill in the House is a victory. Though I'm not sure what else the bill is good for. My own ambivalence about today's vote disturbs me. I do think it's important to support Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha in this fight against the White House, but my heart is not in it. I'm not a big fan of compromise when lives are at stake, but anything is better than stay-the-course. Anything. So I congratulate Speaker Pelosi for pulling this off, and hopefully it's a stepping stone to further action and a real withdrawal.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)