Posted on 02/07/2007 7:12:24 PM PST by tobyhill
Feb. 7, 2007 - Maybe he’s not such a lame duck after all.
President Bush has been on the run since the midterm election cost his party control of both chambers of Congress. January wasn’t much better, as he laid out a new plan to win the Iraq war—only to watch a number of his GOP colleagues on Capitol Hill turn against it. So the White House appeared to be in serious trouble as Congress contemplated a vote on a resolution directly repudiating Bush’s call for a surge of troops to help stem the sectarian violence plaguing Baghdad and beyond.
The White House didn’t exactly win that fight. But it didn’t exactly lose it, either. And in this atmosphere, with the looming 2008 campaign threatening to make the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue irrelevant, the vote on the resolution counts as a notable triumph for the president.
The newly empowered Democratic majority failed to win the vote on the nonbinding resolution to block Bush from sending new troops into Iraq. But the president’s real victory lay in keeping his party together at a crucial juncture.
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Only the Dems could fail to pass a nonbinding resolution.
lol
The Rats said since November they would have a mandate but it looks as though they have less of a mandate than the Republicans did when they were in the majority.
You can always count on Newsweek to change a vote from doing the right thing, to winning at crass politics.
You can always count on Newsweek to change a vote from doing the right thing, to winning at crass politics.
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