Reid Abandons Spring Pull Out Date
a parable of sorts
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The antiwar movement should feel at home in the men's room of the Minneapolis airport. This from the Washington Post:
Unable to garner enough Republican support, Senate Democratic leaders said yesterday that they are abandoning a bipartisan effort to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq by next spring.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said that Democrats had been willing to make the troop withdrawal a "goal" in order to attract GOP support, but it never materialized. Instead, Reid will again push for a firm deadline, this time June 2008, along with a stronger effort at cutting off war funding.
Reid is never getting any more votes than he's getting today. Those Republicans who are inclined to vote for a firm pullout date have already declared. The closer we get to election day '08 the less likely they are to switch because they know will be tagged with the flip-flopper label in the general election.
And so the antiwar movement remains in the dark corner of the stall as the senator moves on. Until next time.
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That be the 'ead ye lan' lubber! I's thirty lashes fer the nex'un ter call th' 'ead a toilet. Ahhrrrr.
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
has no problem selling out his key constituency, methinks.
It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?
again -- similar margin as last time.
This was the attempt to limit deployment length and thus cut down on the number of avaliable troops.
...the closer we get to November '08.
If a Democrat wins the presidential election, the last thing they want is to be forced to actually withdraw the troops per the demands of their boisterous base and have to assume responsibility for the ensuing slaughter.
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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox
It's the plank for ya Cap'n Reid, if'n the sharks will have ya.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
hortations would make stuttering Demosthenes wince. This guy looks like the dirty old man in a Grant Wood parody.
"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)
But tha' means we can spare him th' Black Spot, for he's nae harm to us!
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We are all heroes, you and Boo and I. Hamsters and rangers everywhere, rejoice!
let him swab the decks and use him to sponge the cannon, arrgh!
Molon Labe!
And wash off that craven cowardly septic garbage this silly old geezer keeps squawking about. I remember Mike Mansfield and others back when Dems had REAL MEN as Senate Majority Leaders instead of squeaky wet-eyed crack-voiced croakings from a short-sighted cut-and-run traitor. Reminds me of a cross between Henry Wallace and Harry Hopkins, for those familiar with the FDR surrender-mafia. Sneaky surrender, natch...
...but what did Harry Hopkins do? Serious question: most of my WWII-era reading focused on the actual war.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Yaahhrr - be that a toilet I hear a-flushin?