Posted on 01/31/2007 3:22:15 PM PST by IntelliQuark
Democratic leaders have agreed with President Bush to create a bipartisan Iraq advisory group to offer ideas on the way forward, with members to be named by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
"This afternoon, the president had a good phone conversation with Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi. They all agreed to creating a bipartisan consultative group on Iraq. The group will meet for the first time next week," a White House official said Tuesday.
Democratic leaders initially rejected it but agreed to the idea only after the president agreed to allow the Democrats to appoint the members, a Democratic source said.
Though all 435 members of the House were invited to participate in a classified briefing Wednesday morning providing an update on implementation of the president's surge strategy in Iraq, only about 25-30 members accepted the invitation.
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So what's your point?
"The war on terror we fight today is a generational struggle that will continue long after you and I have turned our duties over to others. And that's why it's important to work together so our nation can see this great effort through. Both parties and both branches should work in close consultation. It's why I propose to establish a special advisory council on the war on terror, made up of leaders in Congress from both political parties. We will share ideas for how to position America to meet every challenge that confronts us. We'll show our enemies abroad that we are united in the goal of victory. "
I am sure he did not have in mind to have both Republicans and Democrats chosen by Pelosi and Reid. I wish he hadn't agree to that. That way he could have pointed at how the Dems don't want bi-partisanship.
As others said earlier, this legitimizes the Democrats' virulent antiwar stance, by allowing the Dems to pick some anti-war RINOs and present them as mainstream Republicans who are also against the war.
In the meantime, the vast majority of the House members couldn't be bothered to go to a briefing on what we plan to do in Iraq. For shame.
"Democratic leaders initially rejected it but agreed to the idea only after the president agreed to allow the Democrats to appoint the members, a Democratic source said.
And why is he allowing the democrats to appoint all of its members?
Where is Reaganesque/Nixonian leadership when we need it?
If Bush would be 5% as tough with the Democrats, as he is in fighting the War on Terror, we'd have it made.
This way the Dems will make us lose the WoT and blame it all on Bush and we'll end up with a majority for the next 100 years.
Yes, but one would think the Republican leadership in Congress would have screamed about it and not allowed it to happen that way.
I've made it pretty damned clear.
Yes, they're shameless enough to do this. But it wouldn't have had the same stature.
Now that's funny, the Republicans yelling about anything. There are no Republican Leaders left.
What this tells me is the rats still don't have the votes for the damn *non-binding resolutions*......this was GW's idea during the STOU, which they wanted no part of last week, now they've changed their minds.....lol...
Simply incredible. Why doesn't Dubya just turn over the White House keys?
Maybe -- I keep trying to convince myself -- this is a new, evil strategery to rope the RATS into having to take some responsibility for bailing out or for making them realize why we can't.
In any case, this is certainly puzzling behavior.
Next I think Bush should agree to have Democrats run the RNC and RNSC. Yeah, that's the ticket.
The show must go on;)
Bush has game. I wouldn't want to play poker with him. This late in his tenure, he is fairly weak, but this move certainly puts the rats on the hook to do something but complain with empty rhetoric.
Yeah, he's really been cleaning their clocks. LOL.
Yeah..but the Dems see war as just one other political toy to play with....not in anyway as a moral commitmment to an outcome or a cause.
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