Resolutions of Pointlessness

I haven't posted in a while, partly due to laziness, partly due to finals (and subsequent tiredness from finals). I will be making a few more posts today, so I hope that makes up for the lack of posting, for whomever cares (likely no one, thus I'm writing to myself like an insane person).

Anyways, no less then three resolutions have gone through the Senate, two by Democrats and one by Republicans. First, the Republicans passed a resolution, one which could be best described as a "trick" resolution, which called to continue to stay in Iraq. I call it trick because it couldn't be amended and it was designed to equate support for the President and the war to support for the troops. So if you don't like the former, Republican challengers would say in the Fall election that they don't support the latter. Still, it was passed mostly along party lines; no suprises there.

On the other end of the isle, two resolutions were put up. Both had the same idea, to set a timetable of a sort for withdrawl from Iraq, but one had a clear deadline while the other had no deadline. The former had the final support of 13 people, while the latter had a much better 39 (story: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2108195).

So why are these pointless? First of all, none have any ramifications attached to them. Heck, it isn't even binding to the Senate. All three bills are just political showmanship, nothing more. They could have just made a blog post to basicly state the same thing. Yet, they waste time debating over something that doesn't have any real effect and could do better on their websites.


Now for a few links. First, the Daily Show did a great segment on the House violent videogame proceedings. Game Politics has a good post on it (here: http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/310875.html#cutid1). One good line from Stewart: "Seriously, the House of Representatives is filled with insane jackasses."
Now for an update to an earlier post, Brendan Hyhan, former editor of Spinsanity, posted one person's account on the current state of conservatives, including on why they reject Bush (here: http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2006/06/jonathan_chait_.html).