Are you kidding me??

So we (and by we, I mean the U.S.) have a soldier who is apparently such a fucking dumbass that he used a Qur’an for target practice in Iraq.

I don’t care if you think Islam is a cult similar to that of Jim Jones, you have to be really fucking stupid to think that shooting a copy of the Qur’an is going to get us anywhere.

What universe does this soldier live in that he missed this, and this, oh and this.

Congratulations to this soldier for emboldening the enemy more than bin Laden ever could hope to do on his own!

What is it about Congressional Dems these days? Walking a tad more upright? Less use of those pesky kneepads? Well it seems that before our waking eyes, our good friends in legislative power have suddenly realized, “Hey, we’re in charge!” Just take a gander at the defiance House leadership is showing over a recently passed war funding bill that funds the war through February (roughly $50 billion) and sets conditions on redeployment:

A draft obtained by the Huffington Post reads: “Within 30 days after enactment of this Act, the President shall commence an immediate and orderly redeployment of United States Armed Forces from Iraq.” Additionally, the draft states, “It is the sense of Congress that the war in Iraq should end as safely and quickly as possible and that our troops should be brought home.”

Amazing, right? The House says that they will not readdress war funding until next year, and if the President wants the supplemental funding he begged for, he’ll need to take it up with Senate Republicans who are sure to filibuster the crap out of the companion bill set to hit the Senate floor.

This picture of Chairman David Obey, purveyor of the government’s purse strings, says it all:

You want more proof of a spine. There are rumors abound that the House will be taking up the informally conferenced energy package (which should include a solid 15% RES standard and 35mpg CAFE standards) the week they return from Thanksgiving. If Speaker Pelosi can convince Harry Reid to stand strong on RES and give us a seriously good energy bill, then… oh my god… we may actually have a Congress we can be proud of.