Pointless exercise on behalf of Senate Democrats

Sigh. Senate Democrats are making another pointless gesture. The headline from the AP:

41 Senators tell Bush: Be frank on Iraq.

What the headline doesn't say is that 40 of the Senators were Democrats and 1 was a Democrat leaning liberal. The move works in that headlining skimming Americans will think that there is some sort of unified Senate action against the President's lack of "frankness" (a claim I do not endorse). It doesn't work in that Americans who read the article are going to have their warning sirens go off when they see it was essentially a unified group of Democrats. Americans have pretty good sniffers for pure political ploys, and those that read the article will sniff out a ploy here. If the group had a mix of Democrats and Republicans, people might have actually taken it seriously, but as it is, it is tough to take seriously.