Rangel - Obama Quagmire

There are people, mostly younger voters, that really believe that somewhere, somehow, we are going to have a draft -- and that it is a Republican idea. This sort of misleading Reuters headline, and its accompanying article, does little to clear up the muck. Democrat Rangel has been introducing this legislation since the beginning of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has always been defeated overwhelmingly. It has always, somehow, been portrayed as something that is supposed to be embarrassing to the administration.

"We did not include that" in legislative plans for early next year, said Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, who will be House majority leader when the new Congress convenes in January.

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California noted her opposition to the draft in remarks to reporters. She said Rangel was trying to underscore that the U.S. war effort should be a "shared sacrifice" and his legislation was "a way to make that point."

Democrats want to run the war from DC. That idea went over well in Viet Nam. Harvard grads in the DOD and the Democrat majority telling four-star generals how to win a war "nicely." Fighting to win will upset the Fonda wing - not to mention the Syrians and the Iranians - with whom we are supposed to start "negotiating." They don't know what they're going to do, so they are floating trial balloons to see if anything resonates with whoever it is that listens to them.