The Washington Post has been running a fairly interesting series lately, monitoring the perspectives of four disparate lawmakers during the course of the Iraq war debate on the Hill — the “Anguished Moderate” (Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine), the “Conservative Democrat” (Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma), “Antiwar Liberal” (Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois), and the “Loyal Republican” (Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia.).
Today’s item on Boren included a rather inexplicable paragraph.
“We’re moving the goal posts,” Boren said with low-key Oklahoma exasperation. “The administration, frankly, has moved the goal posts forward past September, and I disagree with that. But the members of Congress who are wanting to have this vote in July are really moving the goal posts, as well.”
A congressional effort to end the war represents “moving the goal posts?” Greg Sargent explains how nonsensical this perspective really is.
