Posted on 04/02/2007 8:47:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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D'OH!
Nope. Seconds off.
Hello
Tooooooo slowwwwww...
Good Morning FF, CC, Everybody!
Morning. Nice to see ya.
Hey hey.
Hey yutes, happy Monday (kids spring break, argh). LOL
I'll have some Panckes Please
what a great sports day and week..............today the NCAA final, the Arizona Diamond backs open the new season and it's MASTERS WEEK.....................wooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooo
Hey CC did I hear right? Leahy wants to interrupt the Easter break re: Gonzales, but no mention of the troops getting funded? Speechless.
Hey all!
That's OK...I read Bush is thinking about appointing Leahy to SCOTUS to replace Stephens....So we probably won't have to deal with him much longer...
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Dems' Next Debacle More War Funding Follies
New York Post | April 2, 2007 | Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
DEMOCRATS in Congress are heading into a game of chicken with the Bush White House akin to the Gingrich-Clinton government shutdown battle of 1995-96. The roles are reversed this time - so the Republicans are likely to prevail.
The consequences will be lasting. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will find their party shattered. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will be forced to choose sides in their party's schism.
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But the consequences for Pelosi of a retreat will be serious: She'll leave behind her the party's left - who will never vote for funding without also mandating withdrawal. Pelosi will have to scramble and craft a majority with a combination of Republican votes and support from the center of her own party. The speaker will probably wind up having to vote against the majority of her Democratic members.
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For his part, President Bush needs to stand firm as this process unfolds. The split the funding resolution will catalyze in the Democratic Party may be his party's only hope of hanging onto the White House in 2008. He should resist calls for compromise, since any halfway solution or diplomatic wording that could appeal to both sides will rescue the Democrats from the horns of their dilemma - and run most or all of the risks for the troops and the mission in Iraq as the current bills present. Bush should demand a clean appropriations bill or guarantee a veto. If he doesn't flinch and congressional Republicans don't defect, it will be bad news for the Democrats.
I missed that.
Howdy.
I pinged you on another thread about this, but did you hear Sam Zell bought the Tribune?
It looks like the Cubs are going to be sold as well.
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