Posted on 07/08/2007 9:51:45 PM PDT by bnelson44
National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley visited Capitol Hill just before Congress adjourned for the Fourth of July. Meetings with a half-dozen senior Republican senators were clearly intended to extinguish fires set by Sen. Richard Lugar's unexpected break from President Bush's Iraq policy. They failed.
Hadley called his expedition a "scouting trip," leading one senator to ask what he was seeking. It was not advice on how to escape from Iraq. Instead, Hadley appeared interested in how previous supporters of Bush's course had drifted away. In the process, though, he planted seeds of concern. Some senators were left with the impression that the White House still does not recognize the scope of the Iraq dilemma. Worse yet, they see the president running out the clock until April, when a depleted U.S. military can be blamed for the fiasco.
The tone set by Hadley signaled that the White House did not understand that Lugar, in his fateful speech on the Senate floor the night of June 25, was sending a distress signal to Bush that a change in policy can be instituted only by the president and that it is imperative he act now. Hadley was told that it is not too late to go back to the Iraq Study Group's 79 recommendations, neglected since their release in December. But the White House still seems unaware of the building tide, typified by the defection Thursday of six-term Republican Sen. Pete Domenici (who was not among the graybeards "scouted" by Hadley).
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EVEN if they desert, their Cut and Run dogma doesn’t have enough support in the US House to over ride a Presidential Veto. So once again, just like on Amnesty, the idiot wing of the DC Old Boy’s club fails to count the votes before walking the plank. Simply unbelivealbe how stupid being in DC more then a decade makes these clowns
The people who are bailing are the senators who are up for reelection in 08 showing that their personal survival in the senate is more important to them than the country’s survival against the extremists. Shameful stuff.
I have sent emails to Dominici, Gregg, and others who are beginning to waiver.
Any republican senator who aligns themselves with Dicky Durbin who slandered our troops on the senate floor does not deserve respect or reelection.
Powerful stuff. Novak still can cut to the heart of the matter.
Senators don’t do things in a vacuum. They listen to their constituents. btw, being from FL, Dominici and Gregg couldn’t care less what you say to them. Don’t their email systems force you to give your address and zip code?
That won’t stop me from expressing my opinion, by email or by phone...and I do both.
Another thing to remember. Novak is the Senate’s boy. The typical DC insider he actually belives, like most of the old Senators, that THEY are the US Govt. Just like on Amnesty they seem incapable of vote counting. What ever the Washington Post/NY Time says is dogma for these clowns.
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