Posted on 11/01/2005 4:27:06 PM PST by new yorker 77
Perhaps the best explanation for the Democrats' decision to virtually shut down the Senate today can be found in one passage from CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's news conference last Friday:
This indictment is not about the war. This indictment's not about the propriety of the war. And people who believe fervently in the war effort, people who oppose it, people who have mixed feelings about it should not look to this indictment for any resolution of how they feel or any vindication of how they feel....The indictment will not seek to prove that the war was justified or unjustified. This is stripped of that debate, and this is focused on a narrow transaction. And I think anyone who's concerned about the war and has feelings for or against shouldn't look to this criminal process for any answers or resolution of that.
Fitzgerald's statement, and his decision to confine the indictment of Lewis Libby to charges of lying and obstruction, threatened to dash the Democrats' hope of using the CIA leak case as an opportunity to re-debate the reasons for going to war in Iraq. So the party, or at least its leaders in the Senate, has decided to use another route, the shutdown of the Senate, as a way to achieve that goal.
Posted at 03:34 PM
YEP!
Mathews was on Hardball desperately trying to tie this to Cheney
Dingy Harry is officially delusional. Republicans now control the presidency and both houses of congress. Democrats can no longer win at the ballot box so their last chance to impose liberalism on the country is through the courts with their liberal activist judges. They realize that when Alito is confirmed that their stranglehold on the courts has now been broken also. They now control NOTHING. Fifty years of liberal tyrany is over.
" Mathews was on Hardball desperately trying to tie this to Cheney"
MSDNC Matthews has been on a Jihad against Cheney for years.
Someone should expose him to a plate of vegetables.
Is there a rule that Senators must attend a "closed" session?
Or could the Republicans have let the Democrats hold their "closed" session all by themselves?
For Reid and the rats to spring this on the Republicans was simply rude.
Thank you for those links. It never ceases to amaze me that the Left has such a case of collective amnesia about the threat from Saddam/Osama during the last administration.
Maybe we can get lucky enough for Michael Moore to cook up another documentary before the midterms!
Thanks for the ping. Let's make Reid regret the day he spounted his lying crap.
Forgetfulness seems to be a rather 'traditional value' for the Dims
What possible good is it to re-debate the issue of why we went to war?
Am I missing something here?
You're more than welcome, SueRae. The left is into revisionist history, but it's a little more difficult with the internet and e-mail.
Now we just have to find a way to get this information into the hands of our Senators and hope they grow a spine and mention it every time the issue comes up.
Reid is a clone of Daschle IMHO!
What did the repubs. do when Reid called the behind the door meeting?
How much you want to bet there are people at the CIA that aren't going to sleep very well over this. They thought they had made it through the maze. The dums may just get what they wish for and with Sandy Burgler et all in the midst it may not be what they will be happy with at all.
The gentlefolk who spent an amazing amount of their lives telling us about the Senate being the "saucer that cools" (blah blah blah) during the Clinton impeachment hearings threw a temper tantrum today because the two-year, politically driven investigation into what really happened when their churl, Valerie Plame's boy-toy, lied about his CIA employment didn't result in a witch hunt against Carl Rove or the "neocon conspiracy." When the little brats didn't get their way, they dragged the Senate out of the conservatory, right past the playpen, and into the pigpen. Reid and Schumer are petulant two year olds, and their true colors are finally showing through.
If they pull this stunt again, here's what I want to see: Republican Senators demanding closed door sessions to demand investigations into: Hillary Clinton's fundraising, Chuckie Schemer's DSCC's theft of Mike Steele's financial records, Kerry & Kennedy outing a REAL undercover CIA agent on the floor of a Senate hearing room, Chappaquidick, New Jersey governors and senators, and Barbara Boxer's existence. One a day between now and Christmas ought to do it.
I was watching the Tucker Carlson show on MSNBC, he believes that we will lose seats in one or both houses of congress.
What the Democrats REALLY want is to impeach President Bush. There can be no doubt about that. They want to find some little something that they can twist and blow out of proportion so that they can seem to be almost within the real of reason to at least make some noises about calling for the impeachment of Bush. What a joke! And the other joke, the NYT calling for Cheney to resign. How absurd!
These people have LOST their minds. It is that simple. Bush has driven them over the edge. Well they have three more years of him AND I HOPE THEY SUFFER!!!
Senator Kit Bond R-MO answered some question about Cheney's connection outside the Senate chambers today. He said, to paraphrase; "I don't understand the importance of yor question. Why shouldn't the Vice-President ask about someone who is contradicting the policy of the WH and telling people that the Vice President's office sent him to gather intelligence when in fact they hadn't?"
This was after his statement at the microphones which was somewhat heated, well spoken and kick-butt. I've never heard of Kit Bond before but I liked him today.
What the Democrats REALLY want is to impeach President Bush. There can be no doubt about that. They want to find some little something that they can twist and blow out of proportion so that they can seem to be almost within the real of reason to at least make some noises about calling for the impeachment of Bush. What a joke! And the other joke, the NYT calling for Cheney to resign. How absurd!
These people have LOST their minds. It is that simple. Bush has driven them over the edge. Well they have three more years of him AND I HOPE THEY SUFFER!!!
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