Posted on 09/04/2007 2:53:22 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- After a month at home with constituents, nearly a dozen members of the House issued a call Tuesday for bipartisan cooperation in Congress to stabilize Iraq and "bring our troops home" after more than four years of war.
The letter, signed by six Republicans and five Democrats, many of them political moderates, contained no specific timeline for withdrawing U.S. forces and took no position on earlier calls to limit future funds for the war.
Instead, it urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, to "work together to put an end to the political infighting" that has marked congressional debate on the conflict thus far.
The letter surfaced as Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, R-Ky., told reporters most Republicans will wait to hear from Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, before taking a position on the war.
Petraeus is scheduled to issue a report and testify before Congress in the next week, events that have long loomed as a pivotal point in a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,700 U.S. troops and cost more than $400 billion.
Fearful of political repercussions, Republican lawmakers recently have become increasingly impatient with the president's stewardship of the war. And McConnell — long a supporter of the president — appeared to acknowledge that some sort of a change in course is likely.
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no going to happen
Leftist dictionary —
Bipartisanship = do whatever the left wants
All the dems want to do is cut and run.
What's that noise I hear,why it must be the wailing and gnashing of teeth, coming from the moonbats;)
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes . . . and dead armadillos.
Jim Hightower
To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher
Ought’a fit those six Republicans for Rodney King t-shirts... then boot their sorry a$$es out of Washington.
Should be pretty easy to put together 10 House members from both parties who call for:
“. . . an victorious end to the war in Iraq that leaves the Iraqi people living in democracy.”
So get a handful of folks together to do that, all the while calling themselves moderates.
Bipartisanship is not appropriate for Iraq with a dozen parties involved, most of them not in Washington.
Ayn Rand had a quote for stupid moderates too.
Compromise is: getting rid of your principles a little bit at a time. - Patrick Lear
“Moderates” are good at this!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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