[twigs]

Congressman are probably on their way out of town for the holiday... I wonder how many will show up for the vote? Enough to make a statement? And the dems who weren't planning to go out of town quite yet will suddently have plans they couldn't break... They could say that the Republicans didn't give them enough time to plan to be in attendence for the vote. Dems will try to gather their votes together and get RINOs on their side for after the holiday. And the MSM will be complicit with them. Hope that I'm wrong. I'd love to see this work!

[Dems_R_Losers]

I'm sure the GOP did a head count of their members still in town before they decided to do this. But a lot of West Coast liberals are already on the way home and won't be able to get back to vote on this. They probably scheduled the vote at 7:00 so some of their guys can jump on a plane and fly back to DC.

This is BRILLIANT strategery!! The Dems thought they had the weekend news cycle won with Murtha. They have no time to counteract this vote, which will now be THE topic of discussion all weekend! AND it will take place right whern Hardball is on the air, LOLOLOLOL.

[RinaseaofDs]

It already does work. You either voted on something this important - where you go into an election and either say you are for or against the war and we should bring the troops home.

You stay and vote, and you are on the record as either being so weak and French that you could only get elected in Massachusetts, San Francisco, or Berkeley

or

You go home without having voted and then have to answer as to why you chose not to put yourself on the record for something this important.

Also, if Bush is attacked by a non-voting house member on the war issue, they will get hammered for not voting.