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2007-05-23 Home Front: Politix

Dems Drop W'drawal Dates from Iraq Funding Bill

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Posted by Pappy 2007-05-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Bought you time.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-05-23 00:06|| 2007-05-23 00:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Nice to see the losers lose, as most of us expected, but that's partial consolation for what remains an infuriatingly passive and inept administration, a pathetic and cowardly GOP, an astonishingly irresponsible and despicable opposition, and a whiny, fickle, and largely uninformed populace. The ratio of baggage to baggage-carrriers may be reaching the breaking point ....

Posted by Verlaine 2007-05-23 01:47|| 2007-05-23 01:47|| Front Page Top

#3 This strategy will buy the Democrats time. Frankly this vote went further than what I thought the Dem's should have done; I would have simply voted "NO" to the funds, and stood before the American people and said I did my best. Wash my hands of it, like Pontius Pilate, and wait for the 'Saturday Night Massacre' coming on election night this year for the 'Coat Tail' Republicans. The other shoe to drop, is coming soon!! Praise be, for the defiance of The 16.

Posted by smn 2007-05-23 03:01|| 2007-05-23 03:01|| Front Page Top

#4 watch the Nutroots explode in 3...2...

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-23 07:34|| 2007-05-23 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 it is all show theater at the expense of the troops.

Posted by Nero Cloluse5219 2007-05-23 09:19|| 2007-05-23 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6 They didn't even make a good show, they just made themselves look like grandstanding, self-indulgent twits.

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-23 10:43|| 2007-05-23 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 "they just made themselves look like grandstanding, self-indulgent twits."

As a movie producer said about Liz Taylor and Richard Burton on the set of Cleopatra: "They aren't acting"

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-05-23 11:47|| 2007-05-23 11:47|| Front Page Top

#8 They didn't even make a good show, they are just ~~made themselves look like~~ grandstanding, self-indulgent twits.

There. Fixed 'er for ya.

Posted by Mike 2007-05-23 12:21|| 2007-05-23 12:21|| Front Page Top

#9 It's not about the war. They don't give a rat's ass about the war or the troops. It's all about making George Bush look bad.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-23 14:46|| 2007-05-23 14:46|| Front Page Top

#10 a whiny, fickle, and largely uninformed populace. The ratio of baggage to baggage-carrriers may be reaching the breaking point ....

Verlaine, I hope you are wrong about this. I worry that you might be right. I think the elected officials (mostly demonrats) got so much heat about dragging their feet on military funding that they had to back off. I hear less and less from Harry (We Lost) Reid and Nancy (Burqa) Pelosi; probably due to the outrage expressed. I think they backed off on the immigration bill because so many people raised hell with their elected representatives(?). Most voters, I sense, are fed up with Washington and their shennanigans. Tea Party time?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-23 14:51|| 2007-05-23 14:51|| Front Page Top

#11 They're dropping the dates and getting the pork.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-05-23 23:30|| 2007-05-23 23:30|| Front Page Top

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