Posted on 02/03/2007 8:58:13 AM PST by Valin
Senator John Warner will join what appears to be a unanimous Senate Republican caucus in opposing a Senate vote on his anti-Bush administration resolution, unless competing resolutions are also voted on:
"Senator Warner supports the Senate Republican leadership's effort to establish a free and open debate on Iraq on the Senate floor, including possible amendments," a spokesman for the Virginia Republican said yesterday afternoon. Earlier in the day, Mr. Warner told colleagues during a closed-door strategy meeting at the Library of Congress that he opposes the manner in which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, is conducting debate on his resolution, which condemns Mr. Bush's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq.
Senate Republicans are opposed to a vote on the Warner resolution unless they also get votes on two other resolutions. One of those alternatives supports Mr. Bush's plan, and the other would prohibit cutting funds for the war. Republicans also want each resolution to require 60 votes to pass.
As I understand the news accounts, Mitch McConnell has succeeded in getting his caucus unanimously behind this position, if not behind a single resolution:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, told reporters yesterday that he expects to have all 49 Republicans in the chamber -- nine votes more than are needed for a filibuster -- to vote Monday to block the nonbinding resolution. It will be interesting to see what emerges from this maneuvering. The most likely outcome, I think, is that the Senate's lack of consensus over the best path forward in Iraq will be plainly revealed, and the net effect of all this resolution-writing will be close to zero. That's the best we can hope for, I think.
Is it just me or is Warner a pompous moron?
Bloviating for the sake of bloviating.
What an embarassment!
Democrats would call him a useful idiot; Virginia Conservatives (a dwindling minority, I know being one of them) would call him a traitor. I'd recommend that he retire but then we could expect our Demo governor to appoint another Jim Webb... Whatever happened to the great Commonwealth of Virginia?
Warner is from a different planet.
He needs to have his mental status checked lest he propose a military attack on Venus.
Ah...NO! It's not just you. The man is a legend in his own mind. OTOH he got to boff Liz Tayllor OTOOH so did about 73,290 other guys.
He's a jackass!
Also, you have missed that Reid had to drop the democrat resolution and support Warner's, which lacks the most offensive language of the dem draft. IF this article is true the democrats are screwed.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Elizabeth Taylor needs to reenter his life and pull this fool off the stage.
Hmmmmm?? I wonder if some of the pompous morons finally read the list of over 35,000 pledge takers on Hugh Hewitt's website ..?? If so .. maybe reality is starting to sink in .. the repubs didn't lose the election because of the war .. they lost the election because we're sick and tired of them kissing the behinds of the dems.
We're also sick and tired of the corruption, and the total disconnect with the voters. I signed the pledge .. and I will not support any repub who voted for any resolution which tries to ursurp the authority of the president.
Maybe my scathing e-mail to Warner, and a letter to the NRSC, and signing the pledge, had some effect on Johnny Boy.
Warner can't decide whose side he's on. On moment he gives aid and comfort to the terrorists with his backstabbing "resolution" and basks in the glow of predictably glowing praise from the treasonous scum at the Washington Post. Now,it appears he may be having second thoughts. At BEST, an insincere and cowardly poseur.
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