Reps. Pelosi, Waters Battle Behind Closed Doors

AP via Newsmax ^ | March 14, 2007 | Staff

[Anti-Bubba182]

I don't care who wins the fight as long as they both get hurt. Screwballs from screwball districts advancing in power off the Congressional seniority system.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Pass the popcorn, this gets better each day.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Pelosi crowd couldn't keep this out of the paper....She's losing control.

[NRA2BFree]

Pelosi's behind-closed-doors exchange with Rep. Maxine Waters of California — described as heated by lawmakers and aides who asked not to be identified because of the session's private nature — came as House leaders made progress in their quest for votes on a war spending bill that would require U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq by 2008.

Hilarious! Ya gotta love it. Get the popcorn. ;o)

[Anti-Bubba182]

....That and her own gaffs at press conferences. Before the 06 elections the kept Pelosi as quiet as the crazy aunt in the basement. Now as Speaker of the House that is impossible.

I hope this stuff kills the Dems come next election.

[jazusamo]

Looks like Pelosi is really showing leadership when a mental giant like Waters gets into a shouting match with her. Couldn't happen to more deserving people.

[JoeSixPack1]

'Thinking' is not one of Maxine Waters everyday occurances.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Let them continues to battle and fight, so as long as they are busy from not screwing up the USA and hatch out plans in how the USA will retreat from Iraq.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Strata-Sphere Blog:

Democrats Enter The Briar Patch ( The Senate )

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The Senate just voted 89-9 to go ahead and debate the Democrats’ Iraq Surrender Plan now that the surge is not only showing amazing results, but is actually saving US and Iraqi lives. Want to be the 9 nay votes were Democrats trying to avoid the coming disaster? The Dems are now in the political trap they most feared.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Check this out:

The Buffoon Caucus ( Rep. Maxine Waters - Remove U.S. Troops in Iraq by August of 1980)

[JoeSixPack1]

I was going to mention that, also the Mars Flag! :-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the CQ Blog:

Cut And Run 3.0 On Display At The Victory Caucus

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The Democratic plan to lose the war in Iraq has been transcribed by NZ Bear at The Victory Caucus. NZ also has a link to a PDF scan of the document, but the gist of the bill is captured in his transcription. The heart of its unconstitionality can be found in Sections 1902 and 1903:

Sec. 1902 (a) Congress finds that it is Defense Department policy that Army, Army Reserve and National Guard units should not be deployed for combat beyond 365 days or that Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve units should not be deployed for combat beyond 210 days.

Congress may also find that the executive branch sets that policy and its parameters for implementation. The Constitution gives Congress no authority to either deploy troops or to undeploy them, only to give the executive the authority to conduct war and the power of the purse to end it. This looks very much like an intrusion on the President's authority as Commander in Chief to determine troop movements during conflict, and puts the United States in a position where we have 535 Commanders in Chief -- definitely not what the founders had in mind.

After this, Section 1904 lists the series of benchmarks and timetables for achieving them. Among these are the fanciful notion that "Iraq's political authorities are not undermining or making false accusations against members of the Iraqi Security Forces" by July 1, 2007. That means anyone in any leadership position in the Iraqi government who makes a questionable criticism of the Iraqi security forces will force a withdrawal of American troops from Iraq -- an impossible standard, and one which shows how silly this exercise has become.

If we hear the word "doodyhead" from the chair of the natural resources committee in the National Assembly, applied to a police officer, the Democrats will force a retreat.

That's not the only ridiculous threshold, either. By October 1 of this year, the Iraqis have to amend their constitution to some unspecified purpose, or we have to start withdrawing immediately. I'd like the Democrats to point to a single amendment passed by the US that took six months from start to finish to implement, outside of Reconstruction and the original Bill of Rights.

This bill is a joke, and the authors are the worst comedians on the circuit.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

This is better than "300". Two spartan minds locked in a battle to squeeze an ounce of common sense out of the void.

[Anti-Bubba182]

"...The Dems are now in the political trap they most feared."

Unfortunately, Democrats are famous for oozing out of such traps especially with the aid of their fellow travelers in MSM.

It is also likely the Bush administration will be very cautious in claiming success for the surge. I hope they are not too cautious. I would very much like to see the Dems lose big time over this.

[river rat]

Why is it that I have a STRONG suspicion there is lots of Muslim money going to Democrats ----- especially black ones, as was documented with Cynthia McKinney?

If the MSM found that Cynthia was not a rarity among Democrats -- that would be interesting to say the least..

There can be no doubt that Muslim money is reaching our politicians to influence their position on the war against Islamic lunatics.... It would be foolish to believe otherwise...

I think Americans have a right to know who is being bought and by whom...

Semper Fi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the CQ link above to the Victory Caucus blog:

The House Emergency Supplemental: Micro-managing The War

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Written by N.Z.   

Wednesday, 14 March 2007

The Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives has decided to micro-manage the war effort by loading the funding bill required to authorize continued operations in Iraq with conditions and provisions designed to force the President to retreat and withdraw from the fight.

 

The Victory Caucus is pleased to be the very first online --- or print --- media outlet to present in full the text of the conditions imposed in the bill. Click through to see for yourself how  the Democratic leadership wants to hamstring the war effort.

 

 

 

The full 170+ pages of the bill can be found in scanned PDF form here. Warning: this is a 6MB file! 

 

The text below begins on Page 69 per the PDF file's page numbering.

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Smash, blogging at Michelle Malkin's place, points out an important reason why the Democratic restrictions on 'troop readiness' are an impossible impediment to military operations : 

 

"What the bill doesn't tell you is that almost all of the units deploying to Iraq today are technically considered not "fully mission capable" until they have arrived in theater and taken custody of the heavy equipment from the unit they are relieving. Moving all those vehicles and parts halfway around the world takes time, manpower, and money. It's far cheaper and easier to move men, and match them up with the equipment already in place. Which is why we do it that way."

[Ronin]

An original thought and a cold drink of water would kill that alleged woman.

[JoeSixPack1]

I agree 100%, but looking back on our last foray into uncovering international political finance, and seeing that Chinese money was discovered free flowing into the clintoons pockets, it didn't even slow them down and they were proud of both ends of it! (Getting it and keeping it)

We need to clean house the way Hercules cleaned the stables -- one big flush!

But now getting back to Maxine, she's just to dam stupid to be trusted to keep her mouth shut, so secret money would never reach her. At least McKenny had brains enough to be a devious corrupt traitorous bitch without stepping on her own tongue. ( I know, i give the pop eyed buckwheat look alike way too much credit) :-)

But let me add two words... Saudi Arabia!

And Semper Fi !

[Marine_Uncle]

"This bill is a joke, and the authors are the worst comedians on the circuit."
Couldn't have said it better. Let us hope America starts to wake up a bit. Or are the majority of Americans as stupid as Waters is.

[JoeSixPack1]

LOL!