Incompetent Dingy Harry Can't Deliver for His Kooks
Posted on 07/18/2007 9:38:10 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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.
The move is significant because it could hold up the funding of the Pentagon's fiscal 2008 priorities until the standoff is resolved.
It comes only moments after the Republican filibuster succeeded in preventing a vote on the Reed-Levin amendment, which would have mandated withdrawal by April 2008.
Reid said:
I have temporarily laid aside the Defense Authorization bill and have entered a motion to reconsider.
But let me be clear to my Republican colleagues – I emphasize the word "temporarily". We will do everything in our power to change course in Iraq. We will do everything in our power to complete consideration of a Defense Authorization bill. We must do both.
And just to remind my Republican colleagues – even if this bill had passed yesterday, its provisions would not take effect until October.
So we will come back to this bill as soon as it is clear we can make real progress. To that end, I have asked the Democratic Whip and Democratic Manager of the bill to sit down with their counterparts to work on a process to address all outstanding issues related to this bill so the Senate can return to it as soon as possible.
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.
More soon.
So Reid is holding the whole defense budget hostage to his plan to unwisely withdraw from Iraq before we win.
Uh huh. That’s a fine way to run a country. Plan A for failure and plan B for surrender, which to take?
I hope he gets his head handed to him for this treasonable stupidity.
It’s a good thing these Democrat leaders in Congress are so incompetent, or they could really do some damage!!
“From a purely political standpoint, Obama would do himself a world of good to stand up and completely break with his party on this issue.”
Barakc Hussein Obama owes his presidential changes and his celebrity to the simple fact that he is so inexperienced in Washington, DC, he never had to be “for the war before I was against it” - like Hillary, Kerry, Edwards, etc.
“Would have been nice for Santorum to still be around as well.”
Would have been nice if more conservatives knew how good he was and helped out in his hour of need.
If they do this, the president should declare a national emergency and shut down all non-military, nonessential federal government services (that would be about 90% of it), and funnel the funds to national defense.
how did the Dem’s pajama party become a GOP filibuster
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Just a classic illustration of making words mean the opposite of their traditional and accepted definition. They have the DBM on their side when they sell up is down and hot is cold.
“This funding bill was originally scheduled to come to the floor of the Senate in late September. The DemRats moved it up for some partisan political reason that I don’t understand.”
You don’t get it yet??
The anti-war left is mad at Pelosi and Reid for their incompetence at not stopping the ‘surge’. We are doing the *opposite* of what the lefties wanted out of the 2006 elections wrt Iraq.
Reid is panicking, doing stupid things because of the leftist base’s desire to surrender ASAP. If Reid was a real leader committed to finding the best policy in Iraq, he’d be sitting with Bush GOP leaders and planning a united way forward based on a consensus about how to win in Iraq, or at least how to do the best possible. That consensus might not be what Bush wants, but it will at least be based on coherent policy. ... Alas, Reid is committed only to political expediency and there is the rub.
Bush is committed to victory, and it is times like this were standing firm shines.
As I said before: It’s a good thing the Democrats in Congress are so incompetent, or they could do some real damage.
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CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING 14% .....!!!
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Question is who in the HELL are these 14% and what do they like?
What a cement-head.
It also has Durbin's DREAM bill that guarantees illegals go to the front of the student financial aid program, and less money is available for legals and citizens.
Or better yet, if the funds cannot go to help the troops, they will go to fund campaigns against incumbents that did not support the troops.
LOL... ;o)
You mean OUR republicans? AMERICAN republicans? Level the truth against the communists in this country, stand soldily by their statements and and use it to our own advantage??
It's a nice fantasy, but...
Let's not forget how the video drive-bys had a long succession of claimed-to-be downtrodden (sometimes black, sometimes female) government workers moaning how they were being beset with tremendous hardship by the eeevil Republicans, even within days of the shutdown, though no gubmint workers had yet missed a single paycheck, and never would miss a paycheck in that or succeeding years.
HF
Nor had I. Let's hope Reid/Pelosi et. al. haven't, either.
[It would be a tie and not a majority change. wouldn’t it?]
Yes, it would be a tie to be broken by CHENEY!!!
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