Priorities

2005 May 19

“Kevin Drum says:”:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_05/006340.php

bq. There have been 126 car bombings in Baghdad in the last 80 days. That compares to 25 in all of 2004.

This is in context of an article quoting “American Military commanders in Baghdad” saying we’re going to have troops there for a long, long time.

Meanwhile, here at home, our Senate is spending time arguing about getting rid of the filibuster so a woman known for her judicial activism can be appointed on a party-line vote. *Yay!* No more suicide fillibuster-attacks! Way to support our troops, guys!

Maybe next you can try tackling homosexual marriage again, I hear the gay Iraqi insurgents are _the worst_.