An odd move

"The Democratic-controlled House issued a symbolic rejection of President Bush's plan to deploy more troops to Iraq on Friday. "

This is an odd move. It causes resentment on both sides of the political spectrum (the right-wingers think it undermines the troops and the war effort, and the left-wingers think it is pitifully inadequate since this resolution has no teeth). The House does not have the power to redeploy troops, so if they want to do something real, they have to cut the budget for the war effort (which was done to Nixon in 1974), but this group of anti-war protestors does not have the courage to do that.