Do You Really Want To Do This?

Hotline says we may get a Murtha vote:

The Hotline has learned that the House GOP leadership might bring a symbolic, but politically charged, resolution to the floor today that would force Dems to register an up-or-down vote on Rep. John Murtha's call for U.S. troops to immediately withdraw from Iraq. The pre-Thanksgiving recess vote will force Dems to go on the record on one of the year's most sensitive issues and provide the NRCC a roll call vote on the so-called "cut and run" question going into '06.

It certainly sounds like something the House Leadership would do. It also sounds like the kind f vote you'd have in 2002 or 2003, when public support was at a high. I guess the GOP doesn't see the ground moving under their feet. This will put THEM on the record, not the Democrats.

P.S. Just so I'M on the record, I favor Russ Feingold's proposal for a timed phase-out by the end of 2006. If the Iraqis aren't ready to take over the security situation by then, we're in big trouble no matter if we stay or go.