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... 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.If that doesn't happen it will be the time to push for hearings regarding Reid's tax evasion and Feinstein's husband's gov't contracts.
Harry needs to be deported to Iran, preferably via a size 15 bootprint on his sorry backside courtesy of the 82nd Airborne Division. Let that kook Amad-nut-job have him!
Thanks!