Please, don't fund the war, you Dem Wimps

This idea that if This President doesn't get another hundred-plus-billion-dollar check for his war, the troops will be put in danger is ludicrous and should not have been accepted as an argument. Glenn Greenwald puts is best here.

money quote: This unbelievably irrational, even stupid, concept has arisen and has now taken root -- that to cut off funds for the war means that, one day, our troops are going to be in the middle of a vicious fire-fight and suddenly they will run out of bullets -- or run out of gas or armor -- because Nancy Pelosi refused to pay for the things they need to protect themselves, and so they are going to find themselves in the middle of the Iraq war with no supplies and no money to pay for what they need. That is just one of those grossly distorting, idiotic myths the media allows to become immovably lodged in our political discourse and which infects our political analysis and prevents any sort of rational examination of our options.

After all, it is the President who is commanding them, and one would hope that if the money would not be there, he would move them out of harm's way. Why hasn't this argument been made?

What happened to "We're gonna ram (this bill) down his throat, Senator Biden?

J.