Petraeus confirmed in tripartisan lovefest

There really isn't any respite from the congressional arm-twisting lately, is there? And it's starting to bore me.

Army Gen. David Petraeus is the guy who MoveOn exposed last year for his misleading report about the so-called "progress" in the Iraq War in which he just did Bush's bidding. So why in the Wide, Wide World Of Sports would the Senate confirm him as commander for military operations across the Mideast?

But confirm him they did. Yesterday the Senate approved Petraeus's confirmation by a vote of 95 to 2:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00171

Only Tom Harkin and Robert Byrd voted to reject Petraeus. So the Right's gotten to ol' Bernie now too?

If I had even one shred of faith in the current Congress before this story, I have none whatsoever now. Absolutely nil.

(Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1040336020080710?sp=true)