Screws too tight?
the unfortunate effects of living in a vacuum
MoveOn.org email:
Bush’s public relations push comes at a tipping point in the Iraq debate. A majority of Americans want troops home in 2006 and former supporters of the war in Congress like Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) agree.
Members of Congress are changing and examining their position on Iraq right now. It is critical that they hear from all of us. For the next two weeks we’re circulating a petition calling on Congress to insist on an exit strategy to bring the troops home in 2006. ...
We’re planning a nation-wide round of deliveries two weeks from now, when MoveOn members will deliver local petition signatures to Congresspeople across the country. The more people who sign, the more clear the message will be: we expect Congress to act.
Newsweak 11.28: [Jack Murtha] talked about his congressional hero and mentor, another blue-collar Irishman, Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill. No liberal on defense, in 1967 O’Neill had stunned President Lyndon B. Johnson by telling him that the Vietnam War had become a lost cause. Now, Murtha mused, it was his turn…
Which was precisely what the Democratic leadership wanted Murtha to do. A close ally, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, was anxious to open a second axis of attack on Iraq—and was aware of his growing antagonism toward the war. The two met and agreed that he would make his case in private to the party conference. After that, on his own, he would introduce a resolution calling for withdrawal of troops from Iraq “at the earliest practicable date.” Pelosi and the other liberals would keep their distance, while their own Marine charged up the Hill.
Interestingly enough, the chicken route laid an egg.
AntiWar.com In spite of the pro-Pelosi spin given by Newsweek, this contemptible cowardice on the Democratic House leader’s part makes me ashamed to be a San Franciscan. While Pelosi—who shows up to constituent meetings in $10,000 outfits, bedecked in jewels like some Oriental potentate—keeps her distance, she vicariously gets to enjoy the embarrassment of the Bushies, as she scotches any vote on Murtha’s pro-withdrawal resolution in the House Democratic caucus.
oopsie… Next election Nancy may only be getting votes from her plastic sturgeons; still a sufficient number to ensure re-election.
LAT 11.20: ...Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) has dropped plans to seek a vote in early December on adopting a Democratic Conference position in support of Murtha’s plan. Murtha has said his proposal could lead to a complete withdrawal of American troops in about six months...
From the horse’s ...er, from the Senator’s own tight red lips - 11.17:
Demonstrating her clear grasp of the situation: “ two-and-a-half years after the President said, ‘mission accomplished,’ we still don’t know what the mission is”
In re Iraq, her “I have always said” 2 questions: “Is our presence there making Americans safer? The answer is no. Is our presence there strengthening our military? The answer is no.”
[so now she wants to make our military stronger?!? ...hang on - I got the head spins… Click over and read the first few questions and her “answers”—you’ll get ‘em too. She is actually not supporting Murtha after winding him up and aiming him—before she fully supports him.... oh, my head...]
More from the Tightened One - 11.17 “I rise as the proud representative of the city of San Francisco in the Congress of the United States. In Northern California, we treat our veterans with respect.”
I’ll wait til y’all stop giggling.
Waiting...... okokok settle down.
“But (to Republican colleagues) ’you can’t handle the truth.’ Why are the Republicans so afraid of the facts?"
uhm.... ok.
Win Without War - 11.30: “Today’s endorsement by the Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives for a U.S. military exit from Iraq is an important step out of a deadline quagmire,” Andrews said. “It builds on the momentum started by Congressman Murtha to end the war and bring our troops home in 2006."
Regardless of actual conditions on the ground, facts, intelligence [whussat?!?] or phase of the moon.
But, ‘t seems that everyone is not on the same page:
Marshall Wittmann, a former Republican political strategist now with the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, said Pelosi may have resurrected her party’s most deadly liability—voters’ lack of trust in the party on national security.
“If Karl Rove was writing the timing of this, he wouldn’t have written it any differently, with the president of the United States expressing resolve and the Democratic leader offering surrender,” Wittmann said, referring to Bush’s top adviser. “For Republicans, this is manna from heaven."
mwoohahahahaha *snork*
“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille!”
Posted by on 12/02/05 at 08:13 AMGosh dont you just love it?
Posted by on 12/02/05 at 10:35 AMThis “woman” (construct?) is truely evil. Between her sweetheart deals with Jack Murtha and putting the doddering old Copperhead out there to advance her “cut and run” strategy, she is the epitome of “Corruption and cronyism”.
With her, it isn’t about ideology but power. Say anything, whether true or not, to bring down your opponent.
I hope her plastic faces melts like the bad guys in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”.
Posted by on 12/02/05 at 11:34 AM
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