Pelosi and Reid's very bad press morning
By Soren Dayton Posted in Congress | Congressional Democrats | Harry Reid | Nancy Pelosi — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
It must feel awful to wake up in the morning to these stories.
AP:
Congressional Democrats prepared Wednesday for major concessions on Iraq war funding, children's health insurance, tax policies, general spending and energy, because they could not overcome vetoes by President Bush.The setbacks are a stinging disappointment for Democrats, who took control of the House and Senate with narrow majorities this year but never found a formula for coaxing compromises from Bush and his GOP supporters.
CQ ($ub$cription):
In one legislative battle after another this fall, the Democrats who won control of Congress a year ago are surrendering to President Bush and minority Republicans. ...Perhaps the biggest source of Democratic frustration is the omnibus appropriations package that is being assembled to carry 11 fiscal 2008 spending bills.
It took the Democrats until Wednesday to publicly acknowledge they may have to accept a discretionary spending total close to Bush’s number of $933 billion.
Somehow, I don't feel sorry for them though.
...is because even if they corralled every Democratic vote, they'd still need 60 Republican votes. That's just math.
They surrender in Iraq and in Congress.
is because of the blue dogs who are conservative on many issues and Pelosi etc. thought they could make them do what they wanted.......wrong.
These blue dogs must get re-elected every 2 years and they are not going to vote in lockstep with the hard left of san fran nan.
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