If Leahy waits he doesn't have to do anything. That's going to prove much better for his corporate financiers, like: Viacom, Walt Disney, Time Warner, General Electric, General Dynamics...and the ever popular Electronic Warfare Associates. God he gets his ass packed with tons of money from these people.
Posted by phidipides at August 21, 2007 08:24 AMWhat you know, it would seem that the most pressing need for our country and the preservation of our constitution, is IMPEACHMENT!!
Posted by Seven of Six at August 21, 2007 09:14 AMI totally agree, SOS. The Dems can't seem to get anything else done, they should concentrate on impeachment proceedings.
Anyone who hasn't read John Nichols' book that's advertised on the left-hand side of this site should. Strongly recommended.
Posted by Jeff Dinelli at August 21, 2007 09:20 AModd how the ReThugs can so easily block what the Dems want
not one more cent until the Dems grow a backbone and a brain
Posted by Gay Veteran at August 21, 2007 09:31 AMOdd how the Democrats can so easily block what the GOP wanted last year.
Yeah, come on Democrats, grow a backbone, impeach this president with an election year coming up. "That 'I'll teach them." Great move for the GOP to completely dismantle the Democratic majority for decades. A Congress with an 18 approval rating, gee, they never learn!
Stupid is what stupid does. Progressives will learn what the GOP learned in 1998/99 when we tried that. Wrong thinking then, wrong thinking now, but, go ahead. "Make my day."
See folks, you do need to pickup 15 or 16 senators and then you might only break even. Princess sparkle has 60 "Blue Dogs" to worry about. Ellen Tauscher has been able to more than enough hold off progressives, winning with 66% in 2006. Jane Harman also had little problems in 2006 with 68% of the vote. Shame these neighbors can't get along, what a great voice they'd have united. The "Blue Dogs" are growing as the liberal wing just sits there.
Then there's Rep. Baird from 'blue' Washington. This Congressman is not from the 'red/purple' states. He was an original 'no' vote for the authorization for war. Now, after his most recent visit(his 5th), he wants to stay and fix what we broke. No date certain! I'm sure he'll be able to convince others, other 'no' voters that we need to stay. We will be there folks thru the next administration, whether thats four or eight years, and probably longer.
Iraq, as an issue is changing. Victory is becoming more important, whatever 'victory' means.
Iraq, as an issue is changing.
No, it is not. It's still an occupation. Our soldier's are dying and getting injured at a higher rate than at anytime during the occupation. And your pResident is still ignoring our injured Veterans.
From the N.Y. Times Op-Ed:
What soldiers call the “battle space” remains the same, with changes only at the margins.
Victory is becoming more important, whatever 'victory' means.
Again peter, from the Op-Ed:
To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day.
No matter how much the White House says it, Faux News repeats it, or you say it, it is not in anyway a "victory".
It is only in the continued death and destruction of Iraq that satiates the neo-con soul!
Posted by Seven of Six at August 21, 2007 03:07 PMSeven, Its fallen from 34% to just 20% over the summer. The economy amongst others have been gaining ground as Iraq falls. To progressives, it's all about Iraq. To other Democrats, they're looking elsewhere, they have other concerns.
"Reid has 16 senators in his chamber who consider themselves good Americans..." Steve said this. You will need more than just 60 to guaranty cloture in the senate. You will need more like the number of the 89th Congress. That one had 68 Senators and 295 Congressmen.
And then there's this from France...
"PARIS: After years of shunning involvement in a war it said was wrong, France now believes it may hold the key to peace in Iraq, proposing itself as an "honest broker" between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions.
The shift was one of the most concrete consequences yet of the thaw in French-American relations following the election in May of President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose administration no longer feels bound by the adamant refusal to take a role in Iraq that characterized the reign of his predecessor, Jacques Chirac.
During a three-day visit to Baghdad that ended Tuesday, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said that the time had come for France, and Europe, to play a greater role in Iraq.
"I believe this is the moment. Everyone knows the Americans will not be able to get this country out of difficulty alone," Kouchner told the French radio station RTL on Tuesday before returning to Paris. "I really believe that depending on what happens here it will change the world."
"This is about having an opinion and knowing what positive things one can do and what role France can play in this region," he said, adding that Iraq was "expecting something" from France.
The United States broadly welcomed Kouchner's visit to Baghdad this week, saying it was evidence that the world was increasingly intent on bringing stability to Iraq. British and German diplomats also hailed greater French involvement in the country.
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France owed it to itself to return to Iraq," the conservative newspaper Le Figaro said in an editorial Tuesday. "You can shut yourself off for four years in the conviction to have been right but that doesn't increase the role our country plays on the international scene."
Or, as left-leaning Le Monde put it: "It's time to stop lecturing the Americans about their errors and start contributing to a solution."" International Herald Tribune
That last line is so telling...
"It's time to stop lecturing the Americans about their errors and start contributing to a solution."
If Le Monde can see past our errors, it would seem that Democrats should also.
and just for grins...
"Aug 21, 2007 9:18 pm US/Eastern
Arctic August: NYC Sets Record For Coldest Day
High Of 59 Degrees Ties Chilliest August High Set In 1911" wcbstv.com
"Tuesday's high temperature in Central Park was just 59 degrees. The normal high for today is 82 degrees. The normal low is 67.
"This unusual blast of cold air smashed our previous record for the coldest high temperature on August 21, which is 64 degrees, set back in 1999," CBS 2 meteorologist Jason Cali told wcbstv.com.
Global cooling is having its effects.
Posted by peter at August 21, 2007 09:34 PMnow pants-pissing peter is shilling for the global warming deniers, truly no low to which he won't go
great future you're building for your kids, but as a ReThug your philosophy is "fu*k everybody but me"
Posted by Gay Veteran at August 22, 2007 06:14 AM