Posted on 11/15/2005 5:30:28 PM PST by RWR8189
Pathetic.
One expected no better of the Senate Democrats, who want to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, or sooner than possible--most of them don't really care--and who want to embarrass president Bush. But couldn't the Senate Republicans have stood and fought against passing an irresponsible resolution suggesting that Americans want to get out of Iraq more than we want to win?
The Republican leadership may have figured they didn't have the votes to defeat the Democratic proposal without giving their members a weaker alternative to vote for. But better to lose such a vote by a small margin than to go on record voting for a resolution that sends a signal of irresolution and weakness at precisely the time when a message of strength is most needed. After all, in precisely a month, the Iraqis will vote for their first government under the new constitution, and one thing they must weigh in their calculations is whether they can count on U.S. staying power in the fight against the terrorists. With today's vote in the Senate, the Republican leadership, apparently working hand in glove with White House staff, showed itself today to be tactically myopic and politically timid.
One hopes Republicans in the House will show more spine. One trusts that President Bush will not bend in any way to these winds of worry. One hopes that a year from now this vote is simply remembered as a minor hiccup on the way to success and victory in Iraq. But one doesn't win a war by showing weakness. And one doesn't win a political fight by half capitulating to one's opponents, and, in effect, accepting the premises of their critique.
All honor to the 13 Republican senators who stood up against the me-too, we-want-to-get-out-as-well-but-not-quite-as-quickly, Republican leadership: Bunning, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, DeMint, Graham, Inhofe, Isakson, Kyl, McCain, Sessions, Thune, and Vitter. Let's hope their colleagues reconsider and join their ranks in the near future.
--William Kristol
Your post is so illogical and wrong, it is evident that you are affected by some other influence.
Bump for all Freepers who are ignorant of one of this gross action.
9-11-01. Understand?
Proud and relieved to have him as my Senator :)
And I let him know this frequently! (Shelby hasn't been faring as well lately, however...)
BRAVO!! Feeling the same way. Here is the problem. The Republican Senators know or think that we are gonna vote for them no matter what, because we rightly detest leftist liberal democrats. WELL, they are right and wrong..we can start finding REAL REPUBLICANS/CONSERVATIVES to run against these pantywaists in the next election!! I have had it with them!! I see my senators were NOT on the list and they are BOTH REPUBLICANS..SHAME ON THEM.
I'd rather a conservative but at least Condi or Rudy wouldn't wave their damn finger in the air and raise surrender when we're winning this war.
Well, it's time to make blistering phone calls to DeWine and Voinovich... I'll make them this week.
One this is certain, any Iraqi that does not already hate America, if it cuts and runs then they surely will then. I am also sure that the terror will surely follow them home so get ready for I.E.D.'s on I95.
here's the deal for the Republican Senators.
Democrats vote Democrat no matter what. When Republicans/Conservatives have enough they sit out elections.
I'll sit it out next year if I have too. I guarentee at this point I have no desire to fight or convince people to vote for them. I'm willing to let the Senate fall. The house I might keep, just to keep Dems have impeachment proceedings.
Two issues dominant more than any other to me. WOT and Judiciary. The Senate is proving an abject failure in each arena.
Graham got seriously reamed by his constituents after the "gang of 14" nuclear option debacle. Probably doesn't want to hear that again anytime soon.
Snort...
Placemark
You'd best do your snortin in the basement.
Stormy weather...lol.
My former senators, Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn (Oklahoma) and my present senators, Isaakson and Chambliss (Georgia) all voted NOT to cut and run.
My compliments to the four of them. And to the other nine who showed some guts.
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