I'd say the Republicans should give the democrats enough
to hang themselves with. Now if only the Republicans can finish strong what the democrats have started.
Posted on 11/01/2005 7:28:34 PM PST by FairOpinion
Democrats claimed “victory for the American people” Tuesday after the Senate Intelligence Committee agreed to continue an investigation into prewar intelligence claims made by the Republicans, the Senate minority leader said.
Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session for more than two hours Tuesday, accusing Republicans of ignoring intelligence that President Bush used before invading Iraq.
A phase-by-phase investigation will resume, Reid announced after the secret session. It will be the second stage of a probe that Democrats have been pressing for for a year.
An appointed six-member task force — three members from each party — will review the committee’s progress and report back to their respective caucuses by Nov. 14.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
because its an free oppurtunity to give the democrats more rope to hang themselves with.
I was embarrassed for Frist this afternoon......he was owned by that pathetic joker, Reid.
Don't know if it's true, but one of the Repub Senators came to the floor after coming out of session claiming that this investigation phase 2 had been on the books for some time already. That is to say, the Rats are claiming victory by getting something that was already scheduled to occur.
I believe that it was already agreed to. The Dems grandstanded today to demand something that was going to happen anyway.
So stuff like Clinton admin deficiencies and the Able Danger issues will get more press.
Bingo, Today was nothing but a stunt. Pat Roberts was scheduled to finish up next week, and the Dems postponed the report until Nov 14th, The Rats do not want the report to come out because there is no there there
Didn't you hear Roberts speech??
This has been in the works since Feb and they were ready to move on in May .. but the Dems kept delaying
Roberts also said something about a report of some sorts was to be ready around the 14th and didn't see a reason for this stunt and the personal attacks on him by Reid
This will backfire on the Dems
I agree
much a do 'bout...nothin'
I hope Kerry's speeches about Iraqi WMD and the need to take strong action gets airplay!
which has been their agenda for many years now.
Watch what happens when a planned troop withdrawl is finally going to be annouced for Iraq. The dems will step up up their calls for the troops to be brought home along with the idiot liberals.
You'll hear Hillary, Kerry, Kennedy, Pelosi, Ried, and all the rest of the stooges calling for troop reductions in Iraq. The moonbats will hold more rallys.
All to try to make it appear that they are responsible for the troops coming home.
2006 will bring the Republicans more seats in the House and Senate.
Easy to claim they won when the 'second phase' of the investigation WAS ALREADY UNDER WAY.
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.
We need to push our Congressmen to actually use the following information against the Left:
1. Remind the left that every single Democrat of note said in 1998 that Iraq's WMD posed a danger to the United States.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972389/posts
2. Remind the left that Clinton's Justice Department obtained a federal indictment of Osama bin Laden which stated that AQ had a deal with Iraq. They agreed not to attack Iraq in exchange for weapons development.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985906/posts
3. 9/11 Commission reaffirms Bush administration view of Iraq/AQ ties.
June 21, 2004. RNC.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157478/posts
4. Long List of Clinton Administration Officials who Believed There was an AQ/Iraq connection.
July 12, 2004. NewsMax.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1169397/posts
5. List of CIA and various Reports regarding Iraq's support for terrorists, terrorism and AQ.
September 16, 2004. The Weekly Standard.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/631slkle.asp
6. Osama bin Laden was considered an Iraqi Intelligence asset.
October 14, 2004. National Review.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1246505/posts
Funny how in the 90's the world was concerned about the growing relationship between OBL and Saddam and now the left is revising history.
Saddam reaching out to OBL
January 1, 1999. Newsweek
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158277/posts
ABC news reports on the Osama/Saddam connections
January 14, 1999. ABC News
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1229608/posts?page=1
Osama and Saddam Work Together
January 27, 1999. Laurie Mylroie interview. She is a former Clinton terrorism czar.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158482/posts
A Much Shunned Terrorist Takes Refuge In Iraq (Abu Nidal)
New York Times. January 1999.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433610/posts
Western Nightmare: Saddam and OBL versus the World. Iraq recruited OBL.
February 6, 1999. The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,798270,00.html
Saddam's Link to OBL
February 6, 1999. The Guardian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/866105/posts
Saddam offered asylum to bin Laden
February 13, 1999. AP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1158274/posts
Son of Saddam coordinates with OBL.
Iraqi Special Ops coordinates with Bin Laden's terrorist activities.
August 6, 1999. Yossef Bodansky, National Press Club
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/951911/posts
That and more here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1327993/posts?q=1&&page=151
Thanks, Peach, for all those great links!
Thats exactly whats going on. It was already scheduled and these jokers are fooling the media.
"That is to say, the Rats are claiming victory by getting something that was already scheduled to occur."
Kind of like FatTed Kennedy demanding that we bring 12,000 troops home from Iraq when that had already been planned. I guess it makes them feel like they've accomplished something.
However, I do not think the Dims realize the land mine waiting for them as they do their little victory dance.
The intelligence they all claim Bush "lied about" is the same Intelligence the Clinton admin and every current Democrat Senate leader used to justify the 1998 Iraq bombing campaign. So the source of the "cooked intelligence" turns out to be the Dems. Reid and his clowns are going to look awful stupid.
I stopped briefly at AirAmerika tonight...and they were saying that "once again, the Republicans folded, yay!"...
I have to say that I had to agree with them...Roberts and Frist should have told them that their little stunt has caused them to PUT OFF the hearings indefinitely!!
I agree, the Dims think they are doing themselves good,...........I have friends that are silently watching all of this from the side lines that tell me they are motivated to vote these joker RATS out of office like never before.....
I'd say the Republicans should give the democrats enough
to hang themselves with. Now if only the Republicans can finish strong what the democrats have started.
Yet another declaration of a fake victory by the Democrats. In my count this will make it # 5387 declaration of an early victory in the last five years.
Here is my usual answer to this:
That's true. George Allen explained that on FOX and said that this has been in progress since January and phase 2 was finished in May .. BUT EVERYTIME THEY ASK THE DEMS TO MEET SO THEY COULD FINISH THE REPORT - THE DEMS ALWAYS CAME UP WITH SOME OTHER THINGS THEY HAD TO DO AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE TIME.
Now .. the dems are yelling and claiming it was the repubs who have refused to even do the 2nd phase - which is a BIG FAT LIE - and lately - what else are the dems good at!
Why are you believing the media lies? This investigation has been going on for some time. The Democrats are lying, the media is lying. This whole stunt was to manufacture news and it has worked, and you have apparently been fooled by it.
Just to add to your list-
HR. 4655 Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
"Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 - Declares that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government."
http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/US/Legislation/ILA.htm
Does anyone remember who was President in 1998???????
You really are a peach and have all the right stuff when it's needed. Thanks for those links.
Oh, gosh...maybe I should have read more of the posts before I posted that I agree with the dems that the Republicans "folded"....
but, alas, when you have two granddchildren fighting for your attention...it is rather hard to hear everything that is going on....sigh.
All I really got to hear was Reid's rant right before he called for the "closed session"...
I think that there were so many out-and-out lies in his speech...that I couldn't keep count...but one that really stood out, what when he got all agitated and upset because Bush FIRED Gen. Shinseki for suggesting 500,000 troops before we went into Iraq...
THAT is about the easiest lie it slap down...but, Harry still used it!!!
I told my husband that it is kind of a shame that there is a rule that Senators can say anything with impunity on the Senate floor....or all of them could be in big trouble.
"Thats exactly whats going on. It was already scheduled and these jokers are fooling the media."
The demoflatuence are fooling the media.
The MSM is complicit!
It is an insult to who, if I listened for all of 30 seconds?
That's exactly true. The RATS want the report to come out .. but they are unhappy because the report doesn't fault Bush - because this was the info they were depending on in order to impeach Bush. Once they had this and an indictment for Rove - they were home Free - it was WATERGATE all over again.
You're right Mike - there is no "there" there! No wonder the dems had a meltdown today.
I feel better now :)
Just wait until Ginsburg or Stevens announce their retirement in the next 2 years :-)
And also .. Frist did make a statement to somebody, "I can't trust Reid anymore".
So if both Frist and Roberts learned a good lesson today - it'll be in our favor.
Rich Galen said that this grandstand play by the dems is actually going to cause a complete turnaround. I believe he was indicating that the public is going to be madder than ever at the dems and their childish actions. The public knows that those who win the elections get to make the decisions .. even if the dems don't know it.
One thing that really bothers me is Reid's total disrespect for the President .. he keeps calling Bush names and it's just juvenile. Then, Reid has the gall to be upset because Bush didn't pick one of the 2 names he suggested to the president for the SC.
It's only selling to the far left
It's turning off the moderate Dem voters
Howard Fineman wrote about a Conservative Crackup, He needs to look at these moonbats on the left and think again about who is really cracking up
Oh, hell, Frist will probably reward the rats for this. Wuss.
this is beautiful...the 'Rats clearly intend to try to make the war the next election issue....IDIOTS!!!!!!
They have been lying all day .. even the lib talking heads have been doing it
I'm not talking about spinning a story .. they have been telling flat out bold face lies
No! It was about finishing the report - the repubs have been trying since May to get the dems to sit down and finish the report. The dems were waiting for the Rove indictment .. because they were going to use it and this report to impeach Bush. Now it's all ruined. No wonder they flipped out.
We want the report finished because it exonerates Bush.
They are committing suicide
You can actually sit there and tell me the barrage of negative media has not hurt the GOP and Bush?
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