Posted on 02/17/2007 4:02:28 PM PST by shrinkermd
...Minority Leader John Boehner and the GOP leadership deserve credit for making a spirited argument against the resolution that clearly won over many of their skittish backbenchers. Credit, too, to such "moderate" GOP Members as John McHugh of New York and Jim Saxton of New Jersey, who opposed the resolution despite the unpopularity of the war in their states. And credit as well to the two Democrats, Gene Taylor of Mississippi and Jim Marshall of Georgia, who didn't join their party's defeatist ranks.
As for those in favor, no fewer than 69 Members were for the war before they were against it. By our count, 13 Republicans and 56 Democrats voted to authorize the war in October 2002, when it was popular, but yesterday voted against it now that the going is tough. We have more respect for those, such as Texas Republican Ron Paul or Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who voted against the war from the start.
The immediate effect of the modest majority vote may be to slow the momentum for Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "slow-bleed" strategy to micromanage the war without actually cutting off funds. Democrats don't want to leave their fingerprints on defeat in Iraq by actually voting to bring the troops home. So instead, they're hoping to put restrictions on troop deployments that will make it impossible for the Iraq commander, General David Petraeus, to fulfill his mission. Yesterday's vote showed that if Democrats want to execute this cynical duck-and-run, they will have to do it without much Republican help.
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Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Murtha, ALL the rest of the left which includes an overwhelming portion of the media would rather perform fellatio upon our enemies while those same enemies our chopping off our brethren's heads.:-(
Media....Tools of, by and for....all of our enemies!!!!
:-(
It is inconceivable to me that anyone could change their position on something as important as Iraq.
They have no character.
“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” —Mark Twain
To hell with Paul and Kucinich.
The decline of the U.S. continues.
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