So, we're 48 hours out...
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...and instead of reading stories about how the Democrats are going to pass one Frankenstein's monster of an appropriations bill, we're instead seeing stories with headlines like Democrats Split on Iraq Bill and It’s tough to get 218 votes, so Speaker gets tough, too and Hoyer: House Democrats Have Yet to Find Enough Votes to Pass Supplemental. Whips who won't, Speakers threatening to pull the chairs out from under various committee heads' rears, poor old Hoyer trying to hold the line while out in the middle... all we need is a harmonium and a clown car and the circus will be ready to go.
Read on.
And don't think that the netroots are on the ball, either! HuffPo's ready to see the whole thing crash; Moveon.org's not. The latter's decision is being lambasted, here and there. We wait with bated breath for the first accusations that Moveon's online poll results were hacked as part of a Rovian plot.
And, this just in!
Anti-War Dems Near Defeat on Spending Bill
By: Josephine Hearn
March 20, 2007 09:54 PM ESTThe most outspoken critics of the $124 billion wartime spending bill in the House are facing withering support in their fight to defeat it.
California Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Lynn Woolsey said that many of their liberal colleagues were caving under pressure from Democratic leaders who, according to at least one congressman, have threatened to block requests for new funds for his district.
All for a bill that President Bush will nix - assuming that Senate Minority Leader McConnell even lets it get to Bush's desk. Which he might, if only because God knows that the President has been sadly neglecting his veto kung fu. But all amusement - mostly - aside, I have to ask: what gives, here? I was under the impression that the Democrats had been planning and scheming and preparing for this moment all their lives, or at least the last four years: this is supposed to be their time, right? But instead we're being subjected to antics that would be embarrassing to a high school Student Council election. I know, democracy's supposed to be messy - but this messy? And this supportive of pure, pure chaos?
Let me put it another way: remember the movie Animal House? Good. Well, we're about to have the parade scene - only, this go-round the Republicans are the Deltas.
Weird, huh?
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She can probably expect to see ex-chairmen jumping parties.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
I really hope we see Johnson's bill get to the floor.
Blunt showed his ability to whip during the Delay years - I hope he finds his touch and maybe Bhoener can learn somthing from the Hammer just once..
That clean bill is what our country needs. It is what our men and women deserve.
What does the bill do- stipulate withdrawal in 1 year?
It's the term: "mandate." It's Chuckie Schumer telling Bob Schieffer that the "America sent a message loud and clear in November..."
As an aside, do you think Sam Johnson would accept a cabinet position in a Fred Thompson Administration? (That's a little euphoria talking, I'll admit.)
and threatening to pull chairpersonships? Over a little supplemental appropriations bill? 11 weeks into her
reignterm?This would never have happened if she'd had her way and gotten Murtha in as Majority Leader. This will show those Blue Dogs they should do what she says!
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