Voting their unconscious

Yglesias is right (as is Atrios), these guys are being lauded as "mavericks" and even "heroes." They're not. They're Republicans who voted us into the mess we're in now. "Regretting it" or suggesting we maybe might wanna change course pretty soon just underscores how complicit they are in how we got to where we are now in Iraq. Until they stand up and say, "enough is enough," and actually exercise their constitutional responsibility for oversight over the clown show in the executive branch -- hold someone responsible for this massive fuck-up -- they should be given no quarter. None.

That maverick, Hagel, might start by asking the president of the Senate when he's going to stop believing his own propaganda. And the band played on.