Rangel's draft idea is full of hot air.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), who is slated to be the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and who recently "dissed" every Mississippian by asking why anyone would want to live there, has (again) resurrected his idea for a military draft. It is unlikely to fly with members of his own party let alone with the Republican minority. As several news outlets have reported, leaders of his own party, including soon to be Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader John Boemer and Sen. Carl Levin, the incoming Chairman of the powerful Senate Armed forces Committee have rejected the idea. The New York Post, in its editorial entitled Rangel's perverse ploy, called Rangel's reasoning that "[t]here's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq . . . if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way" Nonsense on stilts, while pointing out that the same idea was previously rejected by the House 402-2 (with Rangel voting against his own idea!) The Post concluded its editorial by telling us to "count our blessings" because "[t]he more Rangel obsesses on the draft, the less time he'll have for all the tax hikes he's planning as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee". To read more, check out: Rejecting the draft, Rangel's aim off target, and Democratic Leaders reject draft idea.
Blessings or not, let's all resolve to cut the "stilts" off Rangel's "nonsense".