Posted on 07/18/2007 10:48:33 PM PDT by goldstategop
The nation’s anguish over the Iraq war was kept on hold in the Senate yesterday as the Republican minority maintained serial threats of filibuster to buy time for President Bush’s aimless policies. Last week, the House debated and voted along party lines for a timetable for an American troop withdrawal by next spring. But a similar measure was allowed no such decisive expression in the Senate. Instead, the G.O.P. insisted on the approval of a “supermajority” of 60 of 100 senators before putting to a vote a measure that would apply real pressure on the president to shift his disastrous course in Iraq.
Republicans have the right to filibuster under centuries-old rules that this page has long defended. It is the height of hypocrisy for this band of Republicans to use that power since only about two years ago they were ready to unilaterally ban filibusters to push through some of Mr. Bush’s most ideologically blinkered judicial nominees.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Bush Lied! People Died!”
“Bush Knew!”
“No Blood For Oil!”
And here the Rats claim that “Cut and Run” is a bumper sticker slogan politicizing the war.
In a few years the bankrupt NYT is going to be bought up by an Australian-Japanese consortium and will be running UFO abduction stories on its front page. (I can hardly wait.)
To damn bad N.Y.T.!...go to H#@%!
Thus doubling their credibility.
How would The New York Times, in its Midtown ivory tower, have any idea what "the nation" thinks?
LOL! This is rich coming from the Slimes, they're in that "twilight zone" with the dems.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Puck you, NYTwits.
Because an Iraqi stringer, formerly employed by Saddam to spy on western journalists, and currently employed by al Qeada, told them so.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the rantings of Al-Zawahiri and the NY Times editorial board.
They are scum.
The rules have not changed and guess who’s in charge of the House and Senate, with real, dumb leadership??? And may I add, with an approval rating below 14 percent, matching their IQ’s.
“But Mr. McConnell should keep in mind that voters can tell the difference between principled resistance and political showmanship. The Democrats’ former minority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, lost his seat three years ago when he was roundly attacked by the opposition for running a partisan, obstructionist minority.”
Kinda odd...
In warning McConnell that the perceptive voters see him as a political showman, they use the example of Tom Daschle who, presumably, NYT believes was seen correctly by the voters as partisan and obstructionist and thus lost his seat.
But then they defend him against that scurrilous accusation by seeming to say he lost his seat because he was “swift-boated” by the opposition and the voters believed it.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
the editorial pages of the slimes are moderately conservative compared to the left wing socialist bias of page one. it makes old pravda look like the national review.
I’m confused. The Democrats have a majority but the Republicans killed the bill???? Seems to me it HAD to be killed by Democrats.
NYT is following Ny tradition. Never a supporter of the revolution , bucked against Abe Lincoln... so what’s new?
Look at the creepy senators they send to the capitol.
Insular atheist commie libs, defeatists; hate America firsters.
I’m confused (again)!
Harry is planning to uphold the Defense Authorization bill because the GOP is filibustering it — I don’t think so?
As I understand it, a filibuster is “an attempt to extend debate upon a proposal in order to delay or completely prevent a vote on its passage.”
Wouldn’t the GOP gladly vote on the Iraq Withdrawal measure because Harry hasn’t got the votes for it to pass?
It’s amusing how the MSM has suddenly rediscovered the word “filibuster.” For the previous six years, as the Senate dems filibustered everything in sight, the stories read, “Republicans fail ...” or “Senate rejects ....” How times have changed.
If the Democrat Times of New York is pissed at us, we did something right.
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