Good Day: Bad Week

A bad week ends on a good note:

The United States Senate conducted a procedural vote today involving a nonbinding resolution identical to one approved yesterday by the House of Representatives. The procedural motion supported by Senate leadership failed.

And while it was disheartening to see even 17 House Republicans boarding the S.S. Pelosi, there was some fun to be had at the expense of the analogically-challenged Congressman Ric Keller (R-FL):

Let me give you an analogy. Imagine that you have a next door neighbor who refuses to mow his lawn, and the weeds are up to his waist. You mow his lawn for him every single week. The neighbor never says thank you, he hates you, and sometimes he takes out a gun and shoots at you.

Under these circumstances, would you keep mowing his lawn forever? Would you send even more of your family members over to mow his lawn? Or, would you say to him, you better start mowing your own lawn or there’s going to be serious consequences for you?

Maybe Ric should have kept his term-limit promise...

Congressman Keller is bearing a disproportionate amount of base-anger after this week, but again, he pretty much deserves it. His sound-byte analysis of the Surge was the worst kind of tripe that does nothing to help serious debate in the House or anywhere else:

Rep. Ric Keller (Fla.), a reliable conservative vote, prefaced his statement with an affirmation of support for Bush personally. But, he said, a "surge" of troops had already been attempted in Baghdad. "The benefits were temporary," he said. "The body bags were permanent."

A gentle reminder for the Congressman; bad quotes are semi-permanent and you've strapped an election-year target on your back.