Posted on 01/22/2007 6:31:53 PM PST by CutePuppy
Group Wants Webb to Rebut Bush Before Joint Session
(CNSNews.com) - A left-wing activist group is calling on Democrats to let Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) rebut the president's State of the Union address before the full joint session of Congress to symbolize the Democrats' "reclamation of power." VelvetRevolution said the Democratic response to President Bush's address is usually "an embarrassing, limp, pro forma predictable 'hey, don't forget about us!' rejoinder which the TV networks begrudgingly carry which most viewers ignore." Now, the Democratic response "can truly carry the message - from a level playing field - of how the Democrats envision their plans bettering the state of our union," the group said in a press release. Webb "should deliver his address to that same jam-packed and receptive chamber as the president is granted, demonstrating that Democrats are running Congress as a co-equal branch of government, and laying out their vision for the country," it added. "In doing so, the Democrats will finally show what they stand for - and that they will no longer be cowed - instead of merely and meekly serving as bit players and extras in a grand show which George W. Bush no longer leads," the group said.
Let's hope so, that should scare the heck out of the country... they slithered into power because they were quiet about it.
1917 Russia comes to mind...
It's easy to list the things Bush must say to rally the country, but he isn't going to say them. Congressional members are behaving disgracefully, but they are getting away with it.
They want to pretend they have it all!!
So we no longer have a president???? a commander in chief???? The Republicans better get some nerve and walk out on this if it happens! They should walk out with their president.
These are some very nasty people.
The LIBS will not cut funding.
Only anti-American morons like Chuck Hagel can save them now.
I heard Sheila Jackson-Lee on the House floor this evening...saying she recommends and endorses cutting all funding for the Iraq War...now.
PING!!!
They may be "co-equal" branches...but each branch has different JOBS.
They do NOT have the JOB of giving the State of the Union Address...neither does the Supreme Court have the JOB of making laws...but, hey...we know THEY have been guilty of that lately.
The writers of the Constitution must be spinning in their graves.
Ah, Senator Ass, tool of the Left.
No fear, he'll tick them off, too.
Go for it Webb, then people will realize what a commie you are.
actually it is about setting up a shadow government.
Shadow government in the parlamentary sense.
They see it litterally as a proportional representation issue.
There is no "claim" to power except holding the actually office. It is about the left staging a coup.
It is hard to believe a rectum like webb was ever a marine.
Do you think that Bin Ladin has bought the 50" Plasma with HD and TIVO??
He must love to watch in glorious rapture, this country fulfilling his prophecy to the nth degree.
The word over reach comes to mind. Or Hubris.
I hope they do it. I want to hear their vision. Just to confirm what we all know: either that there is none, or that what there is, is reprehensible to the vast majority of Americans with a functional brain.
JMJ-- this beats all.
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