we should find some RW candidate trying to primary a GOPer, and suggest they make that proposed resolution part of their campaign.

the Rethugs in Congress have the luxury of time. They may or may not have a vote on this subject, but I expect them to have plenty of comments as this story unfolds.

You'd have thought that there was zero controversy regarding Bergdahl when the announcement of the deal was made. Seems that there are a lot of issues around his disappearance, and the way his father has reacted to it. The President now owns whatever comes out of that, and he also owns whatever the released terrorists subsequently do, or plan for others to do.

bring him down.

But the can of worms is just starting to be opened on Bergdahl, and we also have to hope that Qatar does a good job of babysitting the released Taliban members, and that's only going to be for a year. If they are found later to be involved in any sort of violence towards the United States, the President's going to own that, too.

enough of an organized effort to free Bergdahl not two months ago (and Congress certainly knew he may have gone AWOL or deserted, so...no, they're not taken by surprise):


http://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/departments-disorganized-in-bergdahl-release-efforts-critics-say/article_71a30af2-cbc4-11e3-ace1-001a4bcf887a.html

What you are seeing now is rank hypocrisy, and anger because Obama went with the prisoner swap as the best of several choices (including directly negotiating with terrorist Haqqani network--even more outcry if that had been pursued). The window was closing, the Taliban had already called off a deal before, and now were suddenly eager, which probably means Bergdahl was growing less useful as a prisoner--not a good sign.

But that pressure and criticism wasn't front page news. I never heard of Bergdahl before the swap, and now you can't have news radio on for even a half hour without hearing his name.

But my husband was in the military until recently, so maybe I was just more interested in the story.

are becoming like Vietnam, wars that America wants to forget about as soon as practically possible.

Someone has to be the flounder among us.