Ed Rasimus wrote:
Rangel has done this before--about three years ago. At that time the
bill went nowhere until just before the presidential election at which
time it was defeated something like 425 to 5. Rangel didn't vote for
his own bill.

If you won't "cowerfromthetruth" you should note that Rangel is a
Democrat, exceptionally liberal (bordering on socialist), from a
heavily minority district in Detroit and adamantly against the
administration.

Half right. Rangel's bill might also be a clearing of the throat, an
ahem to create a stir of attention to the fact that the real burden of
this war is being carried by a single strata of society, while Congress
devotes itself to repealing the Estate Tax and Bush devotes his
energies to the real threat facing America, gay marriage. And all too
many supporters of the Iraq war seem to think that their commitment
begins and ends with a yellow ribbon sticker on their car.
He's a Korean War combat vet, representing a district in New York City,
which was just told that it has no national landmarks to protect from a
terrorist attack, so it doesn't need as much Homeland Defense money as
places like Omaha, so he must seem like an outsider to the national
republican party. That bull**** detector of his doesn't help either.