More news on the Republican effort to "undermine the Commander-in-Chief":

WASHINGTON -- House Republican leaders will bring a bill to the floor as soon as Friday to defund U.S. military operations in Libya, a much stronger course of action than the non-binding resolution originally set to come up.

Just to recap, if anyone opposed the $1 trillion war in Iraq, they were branded as unpatriotic America-haters. But our limited assistance in a NATO mission is worthy of defunding.

Mitch McConnell, on the Senate side, admitted that it's only because the president is a Democrat.

"There's more of a tendency to pull together when the guy in the White House is on your side," said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the minority leader. [...] "A lot of our members, not having a Republican in the White House, feel more free to kind of express their reservation, which might have been somewhat muted during the previous administration," McConnell said during a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

So, according to the Republican leader, patriotism in wartime is entirely dependent upon the the party in the White House? Good to know. Selective, convenient patriotism.

Just to be clear, there's nothing wrong with opposing the president. Nothing. As long as it's consistent and factual. And there's nothing wrong with patriotism, just as long as it's not kneejerk patriotism exploited for political expedience.