Senate needs to grow up

Yesterday the U.S. Senate once again failed to get enough votes to pass a nonbinding resolution critical of President Bush's plan to send additional troops to Iraq -- the so-called "surge."

The good news for Democrats is that this time around more Republicans joined with them, emboldening the Democrats.

From The New York Times:

“We will be relentless,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the third-ranking Democrat. “There will be resolution after resolution, amendment after amendment, all forcing this body to do what it has not done in the previous three years: debate and discuss Iraq.”

Not to be outdone, this from the Republicans:

“We want a debate about Iraq that includes funding for the troops,” said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader. “They’ve denounced the surge. The question is, are they going to fund the troops?”

And this:

“The majority cannot tell the minority what we are going to have one vote on, take it or leave it,” said Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, defending his party’s stance as senators squared off at noon.

Both sides sound like a group of preschoolers squabbling at recess. Grow up kids, and show the American public you can do what they sent you to Washington to do in the first place - govern.