House passed the Webb pro-troops bill that GOP Senators filibustered

Now we can watch the Republican Senators filibuster Jim Webb's bill again. Yes, filibuster. That's all Republican Senators do these days.

Of course, almost the entire GOP House caucus stood with their Senate counterparts and voted against the troops -- yet again -- yesterday. Despite almost no GOP support, the House passed their version of Senator Webb's bill per The Gavel:

The House has just passed H.R. 3159, Ensuring Military Readiness Through Stability and Predictability Deployment Policy Act by a vote of 229-194. The bill mandates troop rest times equal to their deployment times, similar to an amendment by Senator Jim Webb, D-Va supported by 56 Senators as an amendment to the defense authorization bill. It would require active duty forces to be guaranteed that their time at home match the length of their deployment. National Guard and reservists would be home for three times the length of the deployments. The bill would allow the President to waive these requirements to meet the national security needs of the country, and allow Service Chiefs of Staff to allow for the voluntary mobilization of members. These requirements would apply to those serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The bill also expresses a sense of the Congress that the goal for the time between deployments for regular components should be one year deployed to two years at home station, and the goal for the reserve components should be one year deployed to five years at home station.

Yeah, this is such a horrible thing to do, isn't it? Just because the Republicans say "support the troops" sure doesn't mean they actually do support the troops. It's astounding, really, how the Republicans have undermined the military.