Posted on 12/06/2005 7:52:59 PM PST by ncountylee
Strong antiwar comments in recent days by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have opened anew a party rift over Iraq, with some lawmakers warning that the leaders' rhetorical blasts could harm efforts to win control of Congress next year.
Several Democrats joined President Bush yesterday in rebuking Dean's declaration to a San Antonio radio station Monday that "the idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong."
The critics said that comment could reinforce popular perceptions that the party is weak on military matters and divert attention from the president's growing political problems on the war and other issues. "Dean's take on Iraq makes even less sense than the scream in Iowa: Both are uninformed and unhelpful," said Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.), recalling Dean's famous election-night roar after stumbling in Iowa during his 2004 presidential bid.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) and Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (Md.), the second-ranking House Democratic leader, have told colleagues that Pelosi's recent endorsement of a speedy redeployment, combined with her claim that more than half of House Democrats support her position, could backfire on the party, congressional sources said.
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ping for later
When the Democrats became nearly orgasmic over his plummeting Poll ratings, they figured it was because of their anti-war stand and their constant screams that "Bush Lied". Now that President Bush has fired back with a major speech explaining why the RATS are dead wrong, within a week's time, the Democrats are in complete meltdown mode and the tide of this whole thing has swung in Bush's favor.
This is no accident, Bush & Co. gave them all the rope they needed to hang themselves, and John Murtha put the noose around their necks
So why don't they shut up? They are as dumb as they look.
Oh, I don't think so.
America hasn't got a belly full of this bunch of dumb butts yet!
Ah Yes, Bush may have been at a low in the polls just long enough to give thse Demons a little false security. NOW, they can actually say what they think!
I really wonder who the next Republican President is going to be, and I sure hope he/ she is a conservative.
I heartily agree.
The 'Icans need to bring this up daily until Dean is given the boot. Pelosi, Kennedy, sKerry, and Murtha are all nothing but baggage on America's back. As a caller (to Rush?) said today (I'm paraphrasing): "How much longer do we have to pretend that the 'Rats are patriots?" Some 'Rats may be, but most I hear and see aren't.
At risk of sounding like a crazy conspiracy theorist....is it possible that Dean and Pelosi are in there so that Hillary can sound like the voice of reason?
Put a bunch of shrill nutt jobs into positions of authority so that Hillary the "moderate" doesn't seem so bad? Kind of like a teenage girl telling her parents she's pregnant (when she's not) so the tatoo won't sound so bad.
I realize that may be giving them too much credit. But....
Read Michelle Malkin's new book Unhinged: Exposing Democrats Gone Wild and you'll find out yes, they ARE as dumb as they look.
Could backfire? Shouldn't that be, WILL BACKFIRE?
Statement by Kerry spokesman David Wade: 'Ken Mehlmans filthy and shameful lie about a decorated combat veteran is disgraceful. Political hack Ken Mehlman and draft dodging, donut eating Rush Limbaugh have something in common. Neither of them know anything about how to make American troops safe. John Kerry will continue to speak out about how to succeed in Iraq and protect brave American troops'...
Juvenile, and a normal person would fire the spokesman, but this ought to be enough to send most Congressional Republicans running from this fight with their tails between their legs, looking to throw the unfortunate staffer or judicial nominee to the wolves in order to appease the Dims. It's on druge.
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."
-- Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.
If ANYBODY knows about "filthy and shameful lies" about decorated combat veterans, it is jFnSkerry, and apparently his spokesman.
These people are beyond belief!
LOL!
Marxist Hillary will look moderate and she will step up to save the party and country. I'm in big trouble.
Just reading all the defeatist, anti-American, treasonous comments by the liberal/left-wing pro-terrorist DimWits has got me steaming tonight!!! What really has got me pissed however is knowing that our Rat B@st@rd Republican senators & representatives are wimps & cowards and will merely overlook these treasonous statements by the DimWits! Geez, we gotta rely on Democrats to admonish their party for these statements. I'm starting to hate the wimpy cowardly Repub senators & representatives who NEVER speak up to denounce the Dims by name! Every time a DimWit opens their mouth, there should be 50 Repubs going on the attack... Nah, our guys never do that!!! What a bunch of friggin cowards!!!
Is the 'Rat Party going the way of the Federalists? How low do they have to sink to have their equivalent of the Federalists Hartford Convention?
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