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
"I was watching the Tucker Carlson show on MSNBC, he believes that we will lose seats in one or both houses of congress."
MSDNC House 'Conservative' Tucker Carlson also predicted a Kerry victory. I'm hoping for 60 Conservative seats.
BTTT. Thanks, Peach.
Ofcourse, in their bizarro world, they celebrate failure.
It would be nice if the 2006 election results in Nevada were the same as the election results in South Dakota in 2004. (Senate democRAT minority leader kicked out).
I believe it's worse than simply Democrats being out of power. They have lost everything and have no way to regain any of it. They do not have any ideas or programs that will appeal to the voting public.
The last bastion for Democrat appeal to the public is their hope and dream of somehow recreating the Vietnam experience and Nixon.
The biggest problem Republican have seems to be Democrats lashing out at anything and everything, in the hope something will stick that will translate into votes. Bush has Rope-a-doped them so many times that they are becoming more and more irrational.
You're more than welcome.
I...can't...WAIT...to hear Limbaugh in the morning.
Reid is like Barney Fife with his nuts cut out.
Tucker Carlson is a loser and thankfully most grassroots Republicans are not like him.
Remember Hillary is in the Senate. She wants to be President and will do or say anything! She has still not explained the Rose Files being in the White House or the FBI Files. Hillary Clinton is probably a big problem for the Demorat Party.
Harry Reid is sloppy seconds compared to Daschle.
(My tribute to CBS reporter John Roberts)
Maybe Hillary did some voodoo Witch Craft.
The Dems DO NOT want to debate the reasons for going to war. There are dozens listed in the Authorization of Force congress gave Bush. WMDS is only one of them.
They want to keep it in the news that a White House aide was indicted.
.....Reid did it because, well, he's stupid.....
I saw his comments about consulting with Frist. The man was out of control. He genuinely lost it.
He did it out of extreme irratonal desperation. He might drop dead before morning from a stroke induced by the day's stress on his psyche.
Yes, I saw that. Sit back and enjoy the meltdown! Also, be thankful that those people are our enemies.
If we wanted to finish the Dims off, we should do just that. As well as the Chicom fundraising/MIRV technology, Rose Law Billing statements, lying under oath by BJ Clinton (great title to a book), launching cruise missiles at aspirin factories and camel butts, TravelGate, etc., etc., etc.
But, it is a little tricky after 9/11, after London gets bombed by their own immigrants -- they want the war to end but in their hearts, the sane among us, KNOW they can not be trusted with our national security. But, in three years, who knows?
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