Filibuster This, Mitch McConnell

Speaking of flaming turds, Senator Mitch McConnell fits (actually, so does his wife, the Labor secretary who has never met a corporate business practice she didn't like!). I'll let Steve at The Carpetbagger Report tell you how this flaming turd is trying to burn a little redder for his Bushies:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told reporters on the Hill yesterday that he planned to launch a filibuster against any Democratic attempt to pass a non-binding resolution expressing disapproval of Bush’s escalation plan.

Note to McConnell: bring it on. First, from a political perspective, Dems would like nothing more than to see Republicans going to the wall to defend a tragic policy that Americans already hate. Second, after yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, I don’t think Dems will have much trouble getting 60 votes to break McConnell’s filibuster.

The senators went right back to attacking Rice, the only proxy they had handy for an unpopular president and his unpopular plan. “I have to say, Madam Secretary, that I think this speech given last night by this president represents the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam,” announced Hagel, who earned two Purple Hearts as an infantryman in that war.

“I’ve gone along with the president on this, and I bought into his dream,” Ohio Sen. George Voinovich added a few minutes later. “At this stage of the game, I don’t think it’s going to happen.” Minnesota’s Norm Coleman seemed to agree: “The cost is too high,” he said of the plan for more troops. New Hampshire’s John Sununu expressed mild disappointment. Added Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski: “I’m not convinced, as I look to the plan that the president presented yesterday, that what we are seeing is that much different than what we have been doing in the past.”

And those were just the Republicans. Committee Dems, even some of the more conservative Dems who’ve backed the war up until now, hammered Rice for the administration’s heartbreaking misjudgments.

Emphasis mine.

Indeed, Mitchy, bring it on! Flaming turds break up less messily than wet ones.