It has to be a sign of the progressive gelding of the United States Senate that we have more and more of these 'please' resolutions going to a vote -- or as they're rather grandiosely styled, sense of the senate resolutions.

The point of a sense of the senate resolution is to put the senate on record with a position that is in its nature not capable of being made a law. But with this bogus GOP version of the Webb Amendment -- McCain-Graham, or the Warner Amendment, or whatever -- you have what is for all intents and purposes a law (legislatively, an amendment), only it starts not with the language of mandate -- of law making -- but with a 'please'. A respectful request of the president.

But that's not what they're in Washington to do. If they're not ready to make a law they should just shut up. It's pathetic. Stick to the home renovations and sweetheart house deals.