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Home Front: Politix

Senate Democrats plan probes into Iraq war

2006-09-21

This is a preview of what we'll get if the Dhimmicrats take power in November. Consider yourself warned.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accusing Republicans of failing to adequately monitor the conduct of the war in Iraq, Senate Democrats on Wednesday announced their own series of hearings into what they called a failed policy.

Because in the past three years the MSM has ignored the war -- you hardly hear a peep on the news.

"Three years into war, the American people still don't have a clear picture of what's gone wrong in Iraq -- or how to set it right," said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. "We've been going backward for too long," he said.

Democrats said they had invited Republicans to attend the hearings, which will start in Washington on Monday and move across the country in October and November -- before and after the November 7 congressional elections in which control of both houses are at stake.

I think all the Dhimmi senators up for election this fall should do this -- traipse around the country holding hearing instead of campaigning back home.

Reid and other top Democrats told a news conference the current Congress had conducted fewer oversight hearings than previous wartime Congresses. They said lawmakers held 152 days of hearings on the Korean War and 328 days on Vietnam.

That's what we need, by gum, more hearings! We all know just how honest those hearings would be.

Republicans countered that they had held dozens of hearings and briefings on Iraq and the full Senate had debated many aspects of the war. "We all understand how important the war on terror is, especially the ongoing fighting in Iraq," said a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "It's no surprise, however, that on the day after a national poll showed improving American attitudes toward the liberation of Iraq that the Democrat leadership would want to change the subject."

Why not schedule a vote on the war for oh, mid-October? I'm sure the public would like to see all their senators on record just before the election.

Posted by:Steve White

#7 Target audience #2? NYT/CNN/MSNBC/WaPo/LAT/MSM

Posted by: Phineter Thraviger1073 2006-09-21 17:03

#6 "We've been going backward for too long"

Well for the Donks with a 1940 Roosevelt domestic policy and a 1940 Republican foreign policy, that about sums it up.

Posted by: Omasing Glinesing6559 2006-09-21 09:58

#5 "We've been going backward for too long"

Perhaps we need to go in ah...um...errr.."New Direction"? Yeah...thats it.
Damn! That Harry is one clever wordsmith.

Posted by: DepotGuy 2006-09-21 09:26

#4 I tell you, these are foreign agents.

Posted by: newc 2006-09-21 08:35

#3 "This is a preview of what we'll get if the Dhimmicrats take power in November. Consider yourself warned."

Even so, it's NOTHING compared to the horrors that will unfold if they end up with the House, the Senate and the Presidency in 2008.

Posted by: Dave D. 2006-09-21 07:13

#2 I wonder who the target audience of these hearings is intended to be.

Posted by: gorb 2006-09-21 06:57

#1 Ted, our polls are off again.

John, it seems as tho Joe Six-Pack still doesn't get it.

Get what, Ted?

You know, John, our story on the Iraq war.

Well, gee, Ted...How will we ever convince them? Can we raise their IQ somehow?

Not to our level, John. They're not smart enough to be liberals.

I know, Ted - why don't we hold hearings!

Great idea, John! We can remind everyone that there never were any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that we should have continued diplomacy, like we are for Iran.

Yeah, Ted! That'll get us elected again, and restore the glory of the Democratic Party! Let's call Nancy and let her in on the plan!

Posted by: Fly on the Wall 2006-09-21 06:07

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