Comments on: Senator Chuck Schumer on the “Today” show – priceless

By: Common Sense Political Thought » Archives » The Democrats’ dirty little secret

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:42:58 +0000

[...] Sister Toldjah has a short article on the loquacious Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), and his appearance on the Today show: Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters has a partial transcript of yesterday’s “Today” show where David Gregory interviewed Senator Chuck Schumer. It’s very revealing, as you’ll soon see (emphasis added): Gregory: “The Vice-President is dismissive of this [resolution] effort yesterday saying it’s not going to stop the president, and in fact he goes further, saying this will be detrimental to the troops on the ground.” [...]

By: Dana

Dana — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:31:20 +0000

The non-binding resolution is simple: it’s a way for the Democrats (and not a few Republicans) to have a Recorded Vote that expresses some disagreement with the President concerning the conduct of the war, but without actually doing anything about it.

The Democrats won the last elections, no doubt about it, and they won it based on the electorate’s displeasure with the conduct of the war. That being the case, why don’t the Democrats have the cojones to end the war? All that they have to do is to refuse to fund it any more. While President Bush could veto any fund cut-off for the current fiscal year, the Democrats could simply refuse to pass an appropriation for any funds for any troops in Iraq for FY2008 — which would mean that President Bush would have to withdraw every last one of them by September 30, 2007.

The dirty little secret is that the Democrats want the war to continue, at least until election day, 2008.

By: Lorica

Lorica — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:11:55 +0000

Lorica, I moved this to today’s open thread. –ST