Senate Dems plan floor debate on Iraq (Idiots on parade on Senate floor next week alert!)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/26/07 | David Espo - ap

[CPOSharky]

Keep'em busy doing usless work. That's about all they're good for.

[zerosix]

Absolutely best news of New Year!

Let's get these guys/gals on youtube, give it to the best conservative to use it whenever they run for office against these idiots!

[ZULU]

The partisanship demonstrated by this pack of feckless idiots should demonstrate to the American public their total lack of fitness to direct government foreign policy.

Everything they do is goal oriented and that sole goal is not the betterment of American security, but political advantage for themselves at any price.

Even among harlots, they would be outstanding in their tawdriness.

[NormsRevenge]

I would actually like the Senate Republicans to just walkout when this farce begins. Do a Texas DemocRats act and just leave.

[tobyhill]

Republicans sign their name to this non-binding resolution at their own political risk and political risk of the party.

[eureka!]

Re#9 LOL. That would be so sweet. Also read the Starr Report--with footnotes...

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

Who in the hell do these people think they are? We are trying to fight a war for God's sake. I wish they would just shut up if they cannot help. Our guys over there deserve much better.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

The Republicans need to state that what the Dims are doing is treason.

[NormsRevenge]

Update

WASHINGTON - Democrats intend to begin debate in the Senate next week on a nonbinding measure declaring President Bush's planned troop increase in Iraq is "not in the national interest," Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) said Friday.

He said a quick test vote would be likely if Republicans try to delay or block the move.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the measure Wednesday on a near party-line vote of 12-9, acting one day after Bush implored lawmakers in his State of the Union address to give his revised war strategy a chance to work.

Several Republicans have lined up behind an alternative proposal that is also critical of Bush's plans to deploy an additional 21,500 troop, but in softer terms.

Some Democrats have called for an effort to merge the two proposals, hoping for a large, bipartisan vote putting the Senate on record as critical of the administration's plans. But key Republicans have said they are not interested in compromise talks.

In remarks on the Senate floor, Reid, D-Nev., said Democrats were "moving forward to demand a new direction in Iraq....We hope the Republican leadership will join with us to thoroughly debate this issue ... our troops and the American people deserve no less."

Sen. Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said GOP lawmakers may submit one or more alternatives to the Democratic-backed legislation. He said that next week he hoped to be able to "sit down and structure the process by which those will be considered in the Senate."

Under Senate rules, a minority can try to prevent legislation from coming to the floor. McConnell did not say he would do so, but Reid said if he did, the Senate would vote on whether to go ahead anyway. Democrats would need 60 votes to prevail, but are unlikely to do so, given that Republicans control 49 seats in the 100-member Senate.