Moving On
… in the Senate. But don’t take my word for it. We’ll start with NYT:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 — A proposal to cut off money for military operations in Iraq fell far short in the Senate this afternoon, a day after Democrats lost their best chance of changing the course of the war.
Legislation sponsored by Senators Russell D. Feingold, the Wisconsin Democrat who has been one of the fiercest critics of the Bush administration’s war policy, and Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, received only 28 “yes” votes, 32 fewer than needed to cut off a Republican filibuster.
Yeah, and 23 fewer than needed to pass.
“A majority of the House and a majority of the Senate want to change the direction of the war in Iraq,” Mr. Reid said in a meeting with reporters beforehand.
That guy needs to learn how to count. OK, we’ve got a lot to do. Let’s move on, so to speak.
But the proposal that Democrats had put forward as their best chance of changing the course of the war died on the Senate floor on Wednesday. The proposal that failed Wednesday fell 4 votes short of the 60 needed to prevent a filibuster and would have required that troops be given as much time at home as they had spent overseas before being redeployed.
It’s curious. Lacking the ability to change the course of the war, as they say, or to take any kind of control of United States military and foreign policy, they’ve settled for just trying to screw it up. Attempts to hamstring, harrass our military and political leadership, ineffectual efforts to throw in monkey wrenches rather than try to help accomplish something.
Supporters of Mr. Bush’s war strategy declared victory, saying they had firmly beaten back legislative efforts to change course.
“It means that Congress will not intervene in the foreseeable future,” said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the Independent who has voted with the Republicans on war issues. “The fact that it didn’t get enough votes says that Congress doesn’t have the votes to stop this strategy of success from going forward.”
Well, you know that. And I know that. And Lieberman knows that. But do they know that?
For now, the failed Webb proposal is the closest Democrats have come to bipartisan legislation that would force Mr. Bush to change his strategy.
Do they actually think a successful harrassment bill of this sort would have that effect? It truly is mystifying.
“The Republican leadership and the White House is getting them all to march in line,” said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who ranks third in the party leadership. “But it is marching further and further away from where America is. We just keep at it. It’s all we can do.”
You’d think a leader in the governance-by-poll movement would learn how to read a poll. When the numbers of people who support winning go up, that means America is marching away from you. But let’s … move on. Having resoundingly rejected surrender, the Senate moves on to reject dishonor and insult.
Particularly idiotic treatment of the “Betray Us” ad here by Kinsley touts canard that objecting to insulting lies is an effort to change the subject.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:15 am Comments (10) on Friday, September 21, 2007
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September 21st, 2007 at 12:31 am
Man oh man, this means we’re in for another lecture from the cave; well, some of us anyway. It seems that neither side can depend on the Dems.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:19 am
Do they actually think a successful harrassment bill of this sort would have that effect?
I don’t think that the Dhimmicrats really care what effect their posturing has, except to appease their nutroots support. If they are going to so willfully ignore the realities around them, it’s only because $omething el$e ha$ their attention. Until that diver$ion is taken away, the Dhimmicrats can’t Move On.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:56 am
“A proposal to cut off money for military operations in Iraq fell far short in the Senate this afternoon”
I think we should be gracious in victory and extend the olive branch of peace to the liberal, pro-Baathist, pro-terrorist elements in our government and their supporters.
Choke on it, you bastards.
Notice that I graciously refrained from calling them traitors.
September 21st, 2007 at 8:16 am
Fury and venom, the left’s stock in trade at the moment, is as unattractive as the face of the party: Cindy, Moore, Murtha, Dennis, Keith, the dullard Harry, bibulous Ted, a passel of Hollywood loons. Meanwhile, dark and sinister in the center of the web, George Soros schemes like a poisonous spider.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:05 am
Shipmates,
Did anyone from Move-On bother to do any market research before they invested in Democrat_inc? I mean, Move-On keeps claiming that THEY own the Democrats because they PAID for them. pretty bad return on their investment, if you ask me. Good for Freedom and the Constitution, Western Civilization, etc, but for Move-On it’s gotta be a real bummer watching their stock plummet like that.
Everytime I hear Move-On claim that they “own” the Democrats, it reminds me of a tale from the last days of the Civil War. Straffling along, and unable to keep up with his command, a scraggly, barefoot and very hungry Confederate was suddenly surrounded by a group of well-equipped Federal Cavalry. One of the Federals drew his sabre, pointed it at the Confederate and cried “I’ve got you, Johnny!” Quite non-plussed, the Johnny looked him in the eye and said “Yes, and it’s a hell of a git you got”…..
George Soros must be so very proud of his creations…..
respects,
September 21st, 2007 at 11:38 am
If the Dhimmicrats are owned by MoveOn, they are quite welcome to them, I say. Birds of a feather and all that. Let them stew in their own fantasmagorical political juices while the rest of us get on with dealing with the real world.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:50 am
“It seems that neither side can depend on the Dems.”
I nominate salty for line of the day.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
“By not casting a vote, I registered my protest against this empty politics,” Mr. Obama said.
From the Washington times
–By not casting a vote, I registered myself as an empty suit that lives in the gray netherworld between right and wrong. Full of bluster and bombast, I cast votes when they are politically expedient and hide behind rhetoric when they aren’t—
What a f-n coward
September 21st, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Meanwhile today, Richardson says he’s proud to pack a gun and Hillary says she’s not a lesbian. It used to be a pander-fest with these people to see how fast they could race to the bottom promising goodies to their special interests, but now they are selling out to their base before they even get nominated!
Is this a new Dem strategy?
September 21st, 2007 at 9:41 pm
“Hillary says she’s not a lesbian.”
Hey, thanks for sharing.