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Breaking: Reid Yanks Defense Authorization Bill To Force GOP's Hand
TPM CAFE ^ | 7-18-07 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 07/18/2007 9:38:10 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Ratcheting up the stakes in the wake of the GOP's successful blocking of a vote on Iraq withdrawal just moments ago, Harry Reid just announced on the Senate floor that he won't allow a vote on the entire Defense Authorization bill until the Senate GOP drops its filibustering of votes on Iraq.

The move is significant because it could hold up the funding of the Pentagon's fiscal 2008 priorities until the standoff is resolved.

It comes only moments after the Republican filibuster succeeded in preventing a vote on the Reed-Levin amendment, which would have mandated withdrawal by April 2008.

Reid said:

I have temporarily laid aside the Defense Authorization bill and have entered a motion to reconsider.

But let me be clear to my Republican colleagues – I emphasize the word "temporarily". We will do everything in our power to change course in Iraq. We will do everything in our power to complete consideration of a Defense Authorization bill. We must do both.

And just to remind my Republican colleagues – even if this bill had passed yesterday, its provisions would not take effect until October.

So we will come back to this bill as soon as it is clear we can make real progress. To that end, I have asked the Democratic Whip and Democratic Manager of the bill to sit down with their counterparts to work on a process to address all outstanding issues related to this bill so the Senate can return to it as soon as possible.

What this means is that Reid isn't allowing any votes on any other Iraq amendments -- not the toothless Warner-Lugar amendment, not the Ken Salazar amendment that would force adoption of the Baker-Hamilton plan, nothing.

Fellow TPM reporter Spencer Ackerman also says that Reid's move is very significant in another way:

Because the Pentagon's priorities won't become law until a Defense Authorization bill is passed, the Pentagon's fiscal 08 priorities won't get funded until this standoff is resolved -- and Reid is insisting that won't happen until the GOP allows a vote on the Iraq withdrawal measures.

More soon.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; democraticcongress; democrats; dhimmicrats; harryreid; iraq; moonbat; reid; spartansixdelta; war; wot
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To: Mad_as_heck

Obama is talking the language of losers and traitors. I heard his quote from the other day and it’s more of the liberal claptrap I’ve come to know and despise.

When “Empty Suit” steps outside of his useless platitudes, there’s nothing new and nothing that other liberals don’t embrace. His voting record is almost identical to Shrillary and Edwards.

His big claim to fame is that he wasn’t around on the war vote. So he’s given some sainted status by the left and media.

Horsefeathers.


281 posted on 07/19/2007 6:48:22 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: davidlachnicht

John Rockefeller...senator W. VA ... he’s being investigated by DOJ along with Durbin for passing our secrets around.


282 posted on 07/19/2007 7:32:43 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: Bush gal in LA

I agree!


283 posted on 07/19/2007 8:26:27 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: tcrlaf

Reid scuttles the chess pieces when he realizes he is boxed in.


284 posted on 07/19/2007 10:10:55 AM PDT by sappy
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To: Soul Seeker
If the GOP holds strong, Reid and the Dems are going to take a hit that will put the GOP in position to take back the momentum going into ‘08. I say we should not blink on this threat. The troops will not be denied. No way, I don’t care what they say. It will not happen. Even Americans against the war will not support that junk.
285 posted on 07/19/2007 10:16:29 AM PDT by Clump (Your family may not be safe, but at least their library records will be.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Do the people who voted Reid and Pelousy in now realize what they have done. Of course, it’s not just these two but they are the ones most visible, it seems. If they aren’t axed in 2010 nothing even remotely making sense will come out of Congress. The Dems will continue to draw their huge paychecks and to hell with the troops putting their very lives on the line for us all, including the Liberal idiots. Do they care. No!, the troops are just another tool to try to coerce the Republicans into backing down.
286 posted on 07/19/2007 10:21:20 AM PDT by Frwy (Proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy.)
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To: Beckwith
Wouldn't the GOP gladly vote on the Iraq Withdrawal measure because Harry hasn't got the votes for it to pass?

I think that's the problem...they do have the simple majority necessary to pass.

287 posted on 07/19/2007 10:41:54 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Did Dennis Kucinich always look like that or did he have to submit to a series of shots? [firehat])
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To: processing please hold

I volunteer to arrest Reid .....just give me the authority!!


288 posted on 07/19/2007 11:03:13 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: darkwing104

Reid’s approval rating should be 8 or 9% by mid august : )


289 posted on 07/19/2007 11:04:26 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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If I don’t see this from another source PDQ, I’m going to discount it.


290 posted on 07/19/2007 11:05:15 AM PDT by Dan Middleton (Radio...Free...Mars)
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To: davidlachnicht

B U M P


291 posted on 07/19/2007 11:05:17 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

You got it! :)


292 posted on 07/19/2007 11:14:56 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: tcrlaf

what is it going to take for joe lieberman to jump to the the pubbies. This gets more insane every day


293 posted on 07/19/2007 11:20:47 AM PDT by genxer
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To: WOSG

294 posted on 07/19/2007 11:24:42 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.)
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To: Lucky9teen

Two leftists in search of a clue : )


295 posted on 07/19/2007 12:31:03 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: Merlinator

I am for it!!!...Let the fun start!!!!!!....Sorry (Funds)


296 posted on 07/19/2007 2:25:23 PM PDT by GitmoSailor (AZ Cold War Vet===Fairness Doctrine for TV First!!!!!.....I'Am With Fred)
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To: tcrlaf

In ancient Rome, when the Roman Senate refused to pay the Roman Army, the Roman Army started executing Roman Senators.


297 posted on 07/19/2007 5:49:21 PM PDT by reg45
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To: CyberAnt

The tagline remains until Jim or a moderaor asks that it be removed. If it concerns you, well, that’s life.

If you wish knowledge of its origin, which you did not bother to ask but merely decided you knew the answer to....

It’s a direct play on the election in 2000 when freepers on behalf of BUSH and CHENEY went to where Gore resided and shouted for him to get out of Cheney’s house. I’m going to guess that incident didn’t inflate your “concerns” about how it didn’t actually belong to Gore or Cheney. Did it?

It’s also a slam against Bush for using conservatives to get elected twice, then stabbing them in the back. Reagan wasn’t perfect, but he didn’t stab the movement in the back that got him there once he was safely elected to a second term. I don’t want Reagan back in the oval office and, no, the office was not “his” anymore then it belongs to any President. But I do want the spirit of conservatism back in that house again, duly elected, represented and respected. As it once with Reagan.


298 posted on 07/19/2007 9:42:30 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (MR. BUSH: GET OUT OF REAGAN'S HOUSE!!)
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To: davidlachnicht

You need to add Leaky Leahy and Turbin Durbin to that group. Oh hell...make it an even dozen and add Bill & Hill, while you’re at it! The Dirty Dozen.


299 posted on 07/20/2007 7:49:28 AM PDT by XenaLee
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To: NormsRevenge

He (Reid) kinda reminds me of what one of the judges at the Salem witch trials would have looked like. Pure evil.


300 posted on 07/20/2007 8:00:28 AM PDT by XenaLee
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