Self serving, pathetic and just plain disgusting examples of where our country is headed
One of these god damned days people are going to get angry enough to do something about this shit. I’m disgusted as an American and embarrassed too.
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I heard David Obey, the chair of the House Appropriations Comt., on NPR this morning. I really think they’re trying but then you listen to the GOP spin and you really see what’s going on. The Dems majority is too small. A small pocket of arrogant douche bags who can’t admit a mistake are still obstructing the will of the majority.
Here’s Obey’s press release.
http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/FY08OmnibusSummary.pdf
People are forgetting what a triumph it was to win a Dem majority even with the sucky Dems we have (I’m talking about YOU, Tom Carper).
On the other hand, a coalition of 41 Senators could stop the war and the AMT borrow-and-spend any time they want. I think a stronger Majority Leader could easily build and hold such a coalition. Harry Reid is weak shit.
I’m so effing sick of Reid.
Agree on the assesment of Reid. The overwhelming surge of Dems in the election did bring about the sacking of Rummy, and then Rove. So that was a nice silver lining anyway.
Rove boogied out of there on the cusp of subpoena threats re: Plame and the RNC-shunted emails that he had been sending.
We still haven’t gotten satisfaction on those scores.
Y’all just don’t understand, do you? The Democrats didn’t want,/i> to force the troops out early, because they want the war as an issue going into the 2008 election!
The Democrats exercise total control over the schedule; they could have declined to bring any appropriation for the war to the floor without an absolute withdrawal date, and there’s nothing that the Republicans could have done about it.
Y’all just don’t understand, do you? The Democrats didn’t want to force the troops out early, because they want the war as an issue going into the 2008 election!
The Democrats exercise total control over the schedule; they could have declined to bring any appropriation for the war to the floor without an absolute withdrawal date, and there’s nothing that the Republicans could have done about it.
Dana –
I’m not trying to excuse the horrible Dem performance, but it not accurate to say that there was “nothing” the Republicans could have done.
They could and would do what they have always done. Crank up the noise machine and trot out the “stabbed in the back” narative.
It is certainly accurate that the Republicans could not have forced the Democrats to put any bill the Democratic leadership wanted buried on the calendar.
Your complaint about the “noice machine” is simply part of politics; don’t think that the GOP didn’t combitch about the Democrats’ demagoguery during the previous years. If the GOP’s “noise machine” is effective, it means that the Republicans have a message to which the people will respond.