Dear US Senate, Our strategy is to defeat the terrorists and leave Iraq a Free Nation.
(Please reread this in 3 months)
Posted on 11/15/2005 12:44:15 PM PST by Tirian
The Senate GOP ran from the fight today, passing a resolution that John Kerry immediately branded evidence of crumbling support for the Iraq war, and which the Washington Post described this way:
The Senate-approved Iraq policy proposal calls for _ but does not require _ the Bush administration to "explain to Congress and the American people its strategy for the successful completion of the mission in Iraq" and to provide reports on U.S. foreign policy and military operations in Iraq every three months until all U.S. combat brigades have been withdrawn.
Kerry's e-mail list got this message:
You can feel the ice breaking. For far too long, Republican leaders have refused to challenge the aimless Bush "stay as long as it takes" approach to Iraq. But now, their unwillingness to act has started to crumble.
Today in the Senate, facing a Democratic resolution on Iraq, the Republicans offered their own call for President Bush to come up with a plan. They didn't go nearly far enough, but clearly our call for a concrete plan is gaining momentum.
I will devote most of today's show to this fiasco, but the president is now on notice that his "allies" in the Senate are about as reliable as France.
UPDATE: The New York Times understands the score as well:
The Senate signaled its growing unease with the war in Iraq today, voting overwhelmingly to demand regular reports from the White House on the course of the conflict and on the progress that Iraqi forces are making in securing their own country.
The vote, 79 to 19, came on an amendment to a spending bill that ultimately passed without opposition. The bipartisan support for the amendment sponsored by Senator John W. Warner, the Virginia Republican who heads the Armed Services Committee, reflected anxiety among Republicans as well as Democrats.
And Secretary Rumsfeld remarks on the call for "reports":
On the matter of keeping Congress informed, the secretary said that the "Department of Defense and the Department of State send literally dozens of Iraqi-related reports to Congress each year already" and that the Pentagon alone sends Congress "I don't know, it's something over 900 reports total every year" on an array of subjects.
"I hope someone reads them," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
... the president is now on notice that his "allies" in the Senate are about as reliable as France.
A number of GOP senators just made themselves MORE, not less, vulnerable. Absolutely amazing.
Today??? Only today?????
The Senate GOP ran from the fight
That covers every day
70 = the number of libs + RINO's in the senate. You hit it right on the head. They just made themselves more, not less, vulnerable by losing their spine.
Why do we even bother to elect Republicans to the Senate?
So what else is new by the party of weak spined wannabe leaders who have turned their backs on everything they promised. I will not vote for a RINOcrat if hell freezes over.
We HAVE GOP senators? Boy was *I* minsinformed....
Time for a little nuclear option at the polls so we can GET some....
I hope I'm at home when the GOP Senate Campaign Committee calls for some money.....
Does anyone have a link as to who the 19 were that held out? Wondering how Senator George Allen voted?
Ultimately, regular reports is nothing... This isn't a great sign, but it ain't the end of the world either.
I got a mailing from Elizabeth Dole yesterday. She'll be hearing from me...but not the response she wants...
The base needs to take this as seriously as they did the Ms. Mires nomination. The RNC needs its own crackdown! They must be forced to stand up for the GWOT and not cow tow to the DEM's / MSM.
Unfortunately I believe Senator George Allen sold out!
Just a note to let you know who the Republican Senators are that voted NO on both of the stupid amendments re: Iraq
Burr
Coburn
Demint
Graham
Inhofe
Issakson
Kyl
McCAin
Sessions
Thune
Vitter
Bunning
Chambliss
Posted from another thread
"The Senate-approved Iraq policy proposal calls for _ but does not require- the Bush administration to "explain to Congress and the American people its strategy for the successful completion of the mission in Iraq"
Seems like just more grandstanding. Bush has been doing this all along.
Dear US Senate, Our strategy is to defeat the terrorists and leave Iraq a Free Nation.
(Please reread this in 3 months)
Damn idiots.
The United States Senate is a disgrace, and the president should say so.
Seems like just more grandstanding. Bush has been doing this all along.
Bingo! I think you hit the nail on the head! CYA time in the Senate!!
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