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January 25, 2007
Democrats Fight For GOP Support On Iraq Resolution
This is the most baffling exercise I think I've ever heard of. Why are the the Democrats wasting time trying to talk to Republicans?? These people stand up and scream that they think the President is wrong, I mean quite literally half the Republicans on the committee that sent the resolution to the floor stated clearly that they thought Bush was wasting American lives by this escalation in Iraq, but in the end they can't change the fact that they are puppets and happily voted against the resolution that they allegedly agree with. So you're left to try and decide what is really going on. Either they don't believe what they are saying about it being a bad idea, or that they are helpless to contradict their corporate masters to vote against this horrible idea. Now most are disingenuous liars, so that's a very easy argument to make, the word two faced doesn't really cover how vile and low they really are, but one wonders at what point will they put the American people ahead of their radical partisan agenda? I doubt it will ever happen honestly, it's just not in there nature. They are Republicans, you'll get one maybe two with a momentary prang of conscious like Hagel (interestingly coinciding with a presidential campaign bid), but the reality is the Republican party is a machine and it's members are nothing but drones. They will say or do anything to get reelected and protect their campaign funds. So the Democrats need to stop wasting valuable time trying to talk to these people. The effort is better spent on getting these people out of office than talking with them at all. The radical right don't believe in unity except as a tool to do damage to the enemy and America is their enemy. The Democrats need to stop messing around trying to pretend things are different than they really are.
Read more over at CNN.
Posted by Jamison at January 25, 2007 11:21 AM
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Well, I guess from a practical standpoint they need 60 votes to get past a filibuster, which McConnell has virtually guaranteed on this Iraq resolution. Without Tim Johnson there to cast his vote yet, the Dems will need 11 Republicans to vote for cloture just to get the thing to a final up-or-down.
Amazing, isn't it? That after all the Republican huffing-and-puffing about Democrats "subverting the will of the people" by threatening a filibuster on a few low-level federal judges, they now would do the same on an issue as crucial as the war in Iraq? Talk about ducking their duty to show leadership for our nation's troops...
Posted by: Mike Miller at January 25, 2007 6:15 PM