Posted on 07/16/2007 1:17:48 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Reid Threatens to Keep Senate Up All Night, Republicans Yawn
Monday , July 16, 2007 By Major Garrett and Trish Turner
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened to keep the Senate awake all night Tuesday to protest GOP blocking tactics on moves to compel U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq.
Senate Republican leaders, alerted to Reid's plans on Monday, said they have the votes to keep the president's surge policy in place, at least for now, and called Reid's up-all-night gambit a stunt that wouldn't change any minds.
Senior Democratic leadershp aides said that Reid was planning a Tuesday all-nighter — complete with roll-away beds — to draw public attention to GOP demands that any changes to Iraq policy carry a 60-vote majority.
"Is this a publicity stunt? Yes," a senior Democratic aide told FOX News. "This is the only way we know to highlight their complete ignorance of the will of the people!"
Republicans said they've applied that standard for months on Iraq policy changes and aren't about the change now, especially when recent GOP defections have given Democrats bipartisan majorities on troop drawdowns and other policy changes.
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"This is the only way we know to highlight their complete ignorance of the will of the people!"I think the "will of the people" might be shifting, without the RATS knowing about it. That's the problem with always keeping your finger to the wind. It gets numb after awhile.
The Democrats were the one who proclaimed the 60 vote rule in the last Congress. Let them live with it.
WHen will Reid realize: NOBODY GIVES A RAT’S ARSE!........
If Reid wants to issue a threat with some real teeth to it, he oughta threaten to make another boring speech. No human is capable of staying awake for that...
Harry, are you ready to accept responsibility to what happens to the peoples of Iraq who just want to live in peace if we abandon them?
What a disgusting image!!!! I wonder if the swimmer could bear to go without his booze for that long?
Every time the Democrats don't get their way they stamp their foot and whine "Will of the people!"
Please. Wake me when the "will of the people" to retreat from Iraq shuts down the Senate phone system.
“Reid Threatens to Keep Senate Up All Night”
Up all night!! The horrors!
I think that it would be good if they were up all night, after all the troops are up all night every night!
He will sneak a flask inside his teddy bear.
The will of the people spoke on November 2004 during the last official poll of the war and the Commander in Chief. Bush won that poll by almost 4 million yeas!
I think there are enough GOP members who would consider it an honor to pull an all-nighter in support of the troops.
Uggg, fat Teddy in his pee and poop stained jammies. No thanks.
“Harry, are you ready to accept responsibility to what happens to the peoples of Iraq who just want to live in peace if we abandon them?”
He’s already told us that, if we withdraw from Iraq, Bush is still responsible for whatever happens there. And, you can bet that the MSM will agree with him should that happen.
I’d be more impressed if there were no roll-aways.
As is, I’ll join in the yawn.
(Frist did this once too IIRC. It had no effect other than publicity)
Of course the Yea votes will be allowed to leave only the Ney’s will have to stay.
As the surge takes hold, public opinion will swing back in favor of the war. Then the Democrats are going to be truly out of luck, having placed all their eggs in the basket of an American defeat.
If the ‘Rats were abusing the supermajority requirements to block judges last year, I can’t get too upset if the ‘Pubbies are using that same requirement for legitimate purposes today.
Harry Reid and the Dummies searching for single digit approvals now.
Why can't all these do nothing A-Holes, (including pubbies and Rats) do something for a change, like coming up with a plan to build a border fence that won't cost billions and untold billions of dollars.
BTW, I'd love to have our guys take the month of August off, for some R&R; maintenance; human and vehicle target practice along the Iranian and Syrian borders: Show the vacationing Iraq "government" what a hellhole their country will become without our daily presence in the middle of their cities.
It would be just our luck if Captain Oldsmobile slept buck naked. We would be dreaming of seeing him in jammies!
Nope. A no-vote is the same thing as a “Nay”. That means it’s the “Yeas” that have to stay if they want to break the filibuster. The Dems pulled this on us last go-round.
What a pathetic threat. I doubt that Hairy Reid has the stamina to even stay awake for more than 16 hours.
I want to see Reid try to force Robert Byrd to stay up after 9:00pm.
I think the Republicans should bring decks of cards, snacks and board games.
Turn it into a party.
I too sense this!
Don’t you know? Only lefties have the ability to be unbiased!
I’ve heard a lot about this one-month vacation the Iraqi parliment wants to take, and I’m beginning to think it might be a good idea to pry them out of the Green Zone for a few weeks....
Maybe this is the dog and pony show Jim Webb was talking about.
Exactly. If we were as “against” the War in Iraq as Harry Reid thinks, we would be burning up the phone lines like we did on the Amnesty bill.
Come to think of it...where was Harry Reid’s love for the will of the people when THAT was going on? Oh yeah, I forgot - he was on TV calling us racist isolationists...
Great. So the 'Pubbies will have Monopoly and the 'Rats will have booze and hookers... Think of the defections!
Standing between Graham and McQueeg, no doubt.....
I think the Republicans should bring decks of cards, snacks and board games. Turn it into a party.If our party's representatives were truly a bunch of Reagan's (in spirit alone, not talking about ability), this is EXACTLY what they would do. And have great fun doing it!
Harry Pouter and the Never Ending Night of Doom
Monopoly is a good thing if played right. Demoncrats don’t care of rats have hookers and booze, don’t you know.
Yep. And we pull troops now starting this fall as the rats intend and our enemies will certainly cause another repeat of what happened when we pulled out of Vietnam. The death toll was another 1 million+ in two years when the North over-ran the South compared with the 1 million+ who died in the entire conflict period from 1967 to 1973.
When we pull troops out, I forsee a drawdown to 50,000 troops in late spring 2008 just in time for our fearless leaders to win votes for the November election. I don’t see all the troops leaving Iraq this decade or perhaps even the next one for that matter. Of course, we could avoid much of this by squashing Iran now before they have an entire nuke arsenal but I don’t think we will see that happen now.
If that doesn’t work there’s a little known codicile in the Congressional charter which allows Harry to put everyone on Double Secret Probation.
Bring it on Dingy Harry, you dirty POS.
I agree. They could even bring in some music and do a little dancing.
I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT ONE.
I suspect that Sheets hits the hay right after the Early Byrd Special at 5.
Bring in Ann Coulter and do some dancing!
"Is this a publicity stunt? Yes," a senior Democratic aide told FOX News. "This is the only way we know to highlight their complete ignorance of the will of the people!"
Just like most of his party did on amnesty.
Well, now, this just might get the Senate’s ratings up to the top of the whale sh*t at the bottom of the ocean.
The Republicans only need to send one person there to object to everything that is done.
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