Congress in No-Action

How can it be that the majority of members of congress and the senate are Democrats and still they cannot even get a simple non-binding resolution to the floor for a vote? Have symantics taken over any common sense in Congress. The BBC news reported a resolution opposing President George W Bush's decision to send extra troops to Iraq has failed to advance in the US Senate, dealing a blow to war critics. The international community must be wondering why we cannot get a consensus between 100 men that the Iraqi surge is foolish and the Bush policy in the Middle East be stopped. Are they all such ego-maniacs that each had to propose their own version to present? I understand a total of 4 different versions were floating around and there was not sufficient support for any one to bring it to a vote. If a resolution that is only a verbal stance, that cannot change the course of the administration, is bogged down in symantics, will this happen again when Bush declares war against Iran. Let's get our act together before it's too late.