Posted on 08/22/2007 5:57:26 AM PDT by teddyballgame
For Democratic congressional leaders, the dog days of August are looking anything but quiet. Having failed twice to crack GOP opposition and force a major change in war policy, Democrats risk further alienating their restive supporters if the September showdown again ends in stalemate. House Democratic leaders held an early morning conference call yesterday with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), honing a new message: Of course an influx of U.S. troops has improved security in Iraq, but without any progress on political reconciliation, the sweat and blood of American forces has been for naught.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) made a round of calls yesterday to freshman Democrats, some of whom recently returned from trips to Iraq and made news with their positive comments on military progress. "I'm not finding any wobbliness on the war -- at all," Emanuel said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Treasonous cowards...the whole lot of them...!
The cowards no longer hide the good news in Iraq, therefore they have to come up with a new propaganda plan! Discredit Pretreaus! Discredit the Iraqi politicians!
“Refocus the message on ANYTHING...and hurry...if we can no longer report about dead American soldiers to help us politically then we better find some misery to help us!”
“I’m not finding any wobbliness on the war — at all,” Emanuel said.
From what position would they be wobbling?
I was thinking what a bunch of p*ssies. I guess that’s not very politically correct.
So Sen. Obama’s assessment is that we need 30,000 additional troops in the short run. The closest this guy has ever gotten to military planning was at a G.I. Joe party a few years ago.
They are losing ground among DEMS and Independents.....haha!
Its a race to 0%!!!!
Succinct and completely accurate. It is disgraceful that for the past 4 years they have put their own selfish interests well ahead of our brave soldiers and of our country - for raw political gain. They have worked without ceasing to undermine and poison the national will to fight and to win. What else is the definition of a treasonous coward?
"But in an interview yesterday, McNerney made clear his views have shifted since returning from Iraq. He said Democrats should be willing to negotiate with the generals in Iraq over just how much more time they might need.
What a fool! "Negotiate with the generals". Hey McNerdey, the goal is win. You don't negotiate a win...you win it by allowing the generals the time they need to do the job; not a negotiated portion thereof.
The Democrats just picked the wrong side to root for, so now they must accept the consequences.
Demcong...
Any relation to the Vietcong?
I saw that name used on another blog...it fits them to a t.
traitors. the lot of them.
From Captain’s Quarter’s:
The Democrats have been outmanuevered again on Iraq. Earlier this year, they took 108 days to come up with a funding formula that wouldn’t get vetoed by the Bush administration, thinking that they could dictate terms to the White House. They found out, as the Republicans did in 1995, that Presidents are never irrelevant. He played “chicken” better than the Democrats, who swerved rather than allowing funds to run out on the troops, and gave Bush what he wanted in May.
read more: http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
Even better:
“Everyone knows what they’re thinking. If they get outmanuevered again, the Democrats will catch hell from the activist base of their party and likely wind up losing the House to the Republicans in 2008. They can’t afford to work cooperatively with the people Pelosi and Reid have successfully demonized with their voters, or they will look like complete hypocrites. That’s the wages of demagoguery, and payday’s coming in September.”
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