Stay the course" has been so discredited as the way to proceed in Iraq that House Republicans tried to fob their used slogan off on the Democrats today.
"This is the stay-the-course, stiffen-the-enemy, begin-our-collapse resolution," Texas Republican Louie Gohmert said of the resolution opposing President Bush's decision to send 21,500 more troops into Iraq.
"The resolution the Democrats advance today is a vote for the status quo," echoed the Republican whip, Roy Blunt, of Missouri, as the Congress began a three-day marathon of debate in advance of a vote on Friday.
A vote for the resolution, Blunt said, is "a vote for the current strategy because it's a vote not to change strategy. The current strategy isn't working."
Which is why the president, on the other hand, "continues to come up with new ideas to win this global war on terror," argued Georgia Republican Lynn Westmoreland.
Yet, he said, "some people on the other side believe that if we pull out, people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats."
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