More Ford Fodder

Late today, the US House of Representatives voted on two amendments to a State Department funding bill, one of which restated commitment by US armed forces to stay in Iraq as long as needed, and not to arbitrarily withdraw by any date; the other restated commitment to the use of Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray as a detention and interrogation center. Both passed.

Harold Ford, forced to choose between the left-left of the Democratic Party (nearly half of which opposed the amendments) and getting elected Senator in '06 in resurgent-red Tennessee, voted with the Republican majority.

I've little doubt he voted with an eye to the race. While some in Tennessee's Democratic Party would like to see him pulled further back to the left, he also has to appeal to a lot of military families across the State.

Can't wait to see how his supporters spin this one.

Amendment vote results are here and here.