All Your Base are Belong to Us
Posted at 11:29am on Dec. 19, 2007 Rep Joe Donnelly continues to bite the hand that claims to have fed him.
And the neocons go "Doot, da-doot, da-doot-da-doot-doot-doot, da-doot, da-doot-da-doot-doot-doot..."
By Moe Lane
Moveon.org spent a good deal of money going after his opponent in 2006. The DCCC made him part of their "Red to Blue" program. And, of course, the netroots marched right alongside, pushing his candidacy.
And how does he repay them?
Rep. Donnelly says Iraq situation better
By Tom Coyne Associated PressSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly returned from a second trip to Iraq in five months encouraged that the mission there is going better and that by 2009 the U.S. military's role could be primarily as trainers and advisers.
"I feel we've made progress, and the other part is I feel we can see an end game in sight," Donnelly, D-Ind., told reporters on a conference call Tuesday from Washington. "It isn't we just keep plugging away in the hopes something will turn out right. Gen. (David) Petraeus is working a plan and we seem to be heading toward a place where the Iraqis can be self-sustaining and we'll have a smaller presence in the background."
Donnelly's findings were in stark contrast to his visit to Iraq last July, when he said the only positive thing that happened in that country since the beginning of the war in March 2003 was the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
Precisely as they deserve, of course. (Via Instapundit)
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Posted at 11:55am on Dec. 18, 2007 Politico.com rips off the bandage in one fell swoop.
I would have eased it off slowly, but then, I'm a bit of a sadist, no?
By Moe Lane
Or at least a schradenfreudist, if that's even a word. Anyway, these two authors saw no reason to beat around the bush (Via Instapundit):
Liberals lose bigtime in budget battle
By: Martin Kady II and Ryan GrimThis much is clear: Democrats in Congress buckled under pressure from the White House to hold spending near the administration’s specified limit, and they’re poised to give the president more war money with no strings attached.
But the buckling didn’t stop there.
Democratic policy priorities that liberals hoped would be included in the omnibus spending legislation were also left on the cutting-room floor.
But don't feel completely bad about this! As the article notes, "Democrats will close the year touting a historic increase in fuel mileage standards, hikes in Pell grants, lobbying and ethics reform, and the first minimum wage increase in a decade"! After all, isn't that what the progressives really spent all that money and time on in 2006? Student loan availability?
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