Posted on 04/14/2007 8:36:00 PM PDT by blam
Dems Say They'll Get Their Way on Iraq
Sunday April 15, 2007 4:16 AM
By ANNE FLAHERTY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats know they might lose this month's showdown with President Bush on legislation to pull troops out of Iraq. But with 2008 elections in mind, majority Democrats says it is only a matter of time before they will get their way.
Senior Democrats are calculating that if they keep the pressure on, eventually more Republicans will jump ship and challenge the president - or lose their seats to Democratic contenders.
``It's at least my belief that they are going to have to break because they're going to look extinction, some of them, in the eye,'' said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of his Republican colleagues.
Added Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.: ``We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.''
The House and Senate are expected to negotiate war spending legislation this week. The Democratic proposal would approve $96 billion in military money, mostly for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and set a timetable for troop withdrawal.
The House wants to end combat operations before September 2008; senators voted to set a nonbinding goal of ending combat by March 31, 2008.
As the final bill is negotiated, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Reid plan to meet with President Bush at the White House on Wednesday. They are expected to talk past each other, with Bush refusing to negotiate a timetable and Democrats insisting on one.
``I look forward to hearing how members of Congress plan to meet their responsibilities and provide our troops with the funding they need,'' Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.
Vice President Dick Cheney said in a television interview taped later Saturday that he believes
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Their myopia is incurable.
They’re so disgusting. Their only interest in national security is how they can play it to their advantage. I hope they lose, and lose BIG, next time around because they’ve made the American people so offended by their blatant power grabs and complete unwillingness to consider the nation’s interests first.
Dems to Al Qaeda: “Help is on the way”.
That sums up their strategy rather nicely....
Why does Schumer think that we'd vote for Republicans who "break with the President"?
The treasonous libs need a MAJOR DEFEAT in Iraq. In total opposition to the needs of America and the fight against terror and Islamofascism. They are totally invested in defeat — their sick hatred for Bush has turned them into gross anti-military and anti-American enemies of core America. The recent law breaking of Pelosi is a classic example of this lawless attitude of these socialists. Sadly they conduct their lawless antics with impunity because of the gutless “opposition” that should be operating in favor of the interests of America -— strongly and with loud conviction.
What a joke — so Washington DC remains a town running out of control with the bad guys at the helm. A sorry situation.
I believe Americans want out of Iraq, but they want to leave as winners. I’d rather see President Bush send 1/2 million more troops if that is what is required to win.
Every time an American soldier falls in Iraq, Muslim jihadists and Democrats join hands and dance in the street.
Republican leadership seems too stupid to turn the democrats’ aiding and abetting the terrorists enemy into voters getting active to vote the treasonous bastards out of office.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.: “We’re going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.”
So.... He is really saying ....... We must pull out and lose the war, to pick up senate seats, even if it means the death of another 10000 American soldiers.
Sure wish GW and his advisers had given this Iraq deal more thought before invading in 2002,but now we’re there and pulling out the way the D’craps want to do is stupid and dangerous !!!
There is a certain hubris there - I wonder if it has occurred to Schumer that the Democrat stance on Iraq might end up losing them seats both in the House and in the Senate? If they overplay their hand and force a negative outcome in Iraq it almost certainly will. And the assumption that the Dems are absolutely fated to win the Presidency in 2008 strikes me as a case of willful blindness. Even if it may be described as theirs to lose (and I do not do so) then they may certainly manage to lose it, and this is the way to do that.
Reid must smile every time a military fatality is reported... believing the Dems are that much closer to absolute power.
He doesn’t give a cr*p about our troops, and that statement proves it.
Soldiers and civilians. If the terrorists aren’t kept busy in their own back yard, they’ll come over to blow up ours.
Its also only a ‘matter of time’ before there is another Revolution in America — which will result in the discarding/removal/exiling of the Libertine (not Liberal as per the original definition of that word) Democrats and the other Leftists who threaten the country’s safety, prosperity
and freedom.
Unfortunately terrible things will have to happen before a movement to reform will begin which will clean the rot out of our country.
What the Democrats are trying to achieve will bring those terrible things to be all the sooner.
Let them keep on dreaming. They have nothing else
you betcha.
the longer bush keeps troops in iraq,
the greater the election of a democrap president.
Great sign! I saw a funny bumper sticker the other day’’Impeach Bush now(Al Queada can’t wait)’’!
The loser’s way?
Well .. it was apparently what repubs wanted .. wasn’t it ..?? I hope they’re enjoying it.
Peace at any price sure worked for President McGovern.
Sorry. I disagree. The Dems are — AND WILL — overplay their hand. Iraq is not a lost cause; I see early signs of success in the surge and the Anbar Awakening Council going after our mutual enemy — Al Qaeda.
A Gathering of Eagles could peck all of their eyes out.
The problem is, the democrats "way" is to create a crushing defeat for America and an unconditional surrender to terrorists. The US won't easily recover from the democrat's "way"...and it's going to directly cause enormous death, likely in the hundreds of thousands.
There is a reason that no polling results are being disclosed.
Oh! ow biwan! There you are again with your silly “Oh Gosh” pronouncements!
No one on this forum talks like that.
Go away.. DWEEB.
Busted you last night, happy to do it again.
hope yo right!
my gop u.s. congressional and state assembly district
no longer have “support our troops” bumper stickers on cars.
republicans i know are angry about the war.
look, right or wrong, the u.s. public gets tired of wars.
You may be right. The sad thing is pulling our troops out at this point may put our asses in a bigger sling then keeping them there. I personally would rather see a build up and consolidation of forces and an invasion of Iran and Syria so we could get to the real a-holes who are sponsoring terrorism !!!
your a jerk and you couldn’t bust me on your best day loser !!!
August or September of 08 is the perfect time to leave.
Hey asscap,take another 24 hours to think of another snappy response,I’ll talk to you tomorrow !!!
A well thought out and ...oh so intelligent reply.
We will leave the forum to decide your fate.
P.S. We Conservatives know how to keep our temper.
If your a conservative,then I’ll gladly join the liberal side of the aisle.By the way congratulations genius,it only took you about 20 mins. to come up with that deep thinking response !!!
Well my dear young Fraud,
I can spell, I understand grammar and I know the History of the United States of America. Still want to play?
Let’s play sweetheart !!!
As for your knowledge of the United States,how about you share some of it with me.I can’t wait to hear it !!!
Come on now asscap don’t quit on me yet !!!
Very Well... let the games begin.
You’ve made me weary however, and I will gladly do battle with you tomorrow. Hamburgers on Tuesday and all of that. I see that I have pissed you off, good.
I have to get up and go to Mass tomorrow. Goodnight, Sleep well.
I’ll pray for you.
TTFN.
OK let’s try it this way, I don’t know if your smart enough to play chess, but if you are there’s a version where you get a certain amount of time to make a move.Now how about we play by those rules,you know,I answer quickly and you try to respond in like an hour or two !!!
Pray for me and the rest of us who aren’t quite as good as you huh. I know,God only listens people like you,the GOOD ones. And by the way,don’t give yourself any false credit your just a phony little baloney who thinks your stuff don’t stink !!!
And you Dingy Harry will lose yours.
Well the democrats sure do have their grassroots out there working and trying to convert others to their beliefs. This guy is one of them. When lies go unopposed the viewers think it’s truth.
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