As the Happy Hour Round Up notes Rahm Emmanuel's attempt to catch this Administration in its favorite pastime of double-speak has failed. Despite the fact that I disagree, I can understand why most of the GOP couldn't bring itself to defund the Office of the Vice President. However, it seems to me the following Dems have some serious explaining to do:

Bean

Boren

Boyd (FL)

Capuano

Cuellar

Edwards

Ellsworth

Gordon

Herseth Sandlin

Kaptur

Klein (FL)

Lampson

Murtha

Obey

Peterson (MN)

Ross

Sestak

Skelton

Smith (WA)

Snyder

Space

Tanner

Yes, I understand that some of these Representatives are in conservative districts and needed to throw their constituents a bone. Nick Lampson, for example, in Tom DeLay's old stomping grounds is surely in a tough spot there.

Jack Murtha, however, is not. He won re-election by over 20% last cycle. There is no justification for him to rubber stamp the lunacy that is this Administration.

Or what of Collin Peterson? He may be in a conservative leaning district, but he bested his last "opponent" (I use the term loosely) by over 40%.

I could go on, but you get the point.

Who are these people, and what are they doing lending anything approximating credibility to what Ana Marie Cox has so aptly named, Dickistan?

Rahm's Amendment failed by 9 votes.

Nice job, Dems. This is yet another stellar example of why your approval rating is hovering in the neighborhood of Bush.