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- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
- Another day, another Berkeley tantrum
- Jake Tapper
- Lynn Sweet
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won’t believe Petraeus if he doesn’t tell him what he wants to hear
Watch and listen:
Transcript (emphasis added):
BASH: You talked several times about General Petraeus. You know that he is here in town. He was at the White House today, sitting with the president in the Oval Office and the president said that he wants to make it clear that Washington should not be telling him, General Petraeus, a commander on the ground in Iraq, what to do, particularly, the president was talking about Democrats in Congress.
He also said that General Petraeus is going to come to the Hill and make it clear to you that there is progress going on in Iraq, that the so-called surge is working. Will you believe him when he says that?
REID: No, I don’t believe him, because it’s not happening.
Jeff Goldstein on Reid’s comments and the reactions from other Democrats to them (emphasis his):
It is telling that Reid’s fellow Democrats are reacting quickly to his gaffe, not because they don’t wish to see us lose the war— after all, many of them have staked their political future on just that—but rather, because they desperately don’t want to be seen as wishing us to lose. So they are forced to straddle the issue, agitating for legislation that will hamstring the military, offering propaganda victories to our enemies, and providing constant “dissent” that weakens troop morale and emboldens terrorism by giving the impression that the tactic is useful should its practitioners hope to divide a population—all while pretending to care about the troops and wring their hands over the possibility of a loss that they are working actively to help bring about.
Reid’s sin, from the Democratic Party’s perspective, is that he gave voice to the very kind of surrender rhetoric that has long cost Democrats the trust of the American people on issues of national security. Or, to put it another way, Reid’s blunder was one of candor—when what the Democratic party is about these days is keeping up appearances.
Bob Owens looks at the reactions of Iraq war veterans to Reid’s suggestion that the ‘war is lost.’
You’ve stepped in it big time, Senator Surrender.
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O if only komrade Reid COULD look at the facts, he and the people doing the heavy lifting would live longer. He gets closer to having his death wish for the foundations of hopes and freedoms established in Iraq and ensuring that all who fought and died to get this situation up and running, a waste of their own life.
Does this anti American- Senator spineless Reid have a death wish of his own, as well?
He won’t have to surrender Sister cuz he has the whole msm toating his water. He is nothing but a midget coward and I only wish more Americans could see this idiot for what he is. He is pandering to the elite progressive leftoids and it is just sickning to watch. I’m sure our brave soldiers love hearing his quotes — what a wheezle faced traitor he is. !!!!!
Everything on the GOP agenda that the Dems have opposed over the past 8 years has been called treason. Yall are in “boy crying wolf” territory. No one will or should take this seriously; it’s just another lame attempt to hijack reasonable discourse. You may think the American public is dumb enough to fall for this, but Democrats know that the people can recognize snake oil sellers when they see it.
No, jpe, ya got it wrong aa usual.
We on the right simply realize that while our brave soldiers are FIGHTING this war they shouldn’t have to hear reid take to the floor saying the war is already lost, how is that statement good for anyone’s morale.
Get real.
I won’t disagree with you there jpe, but this kind of talk has gotten more than one person shot. So unless Senator Reid is Superman and bullets bounce off his chest, I would watch the stupid rhetoric. This kind of BS talk encourages our enemies, and gives them hope. Wouldn’t it be nice if Reid would try to do the same for our troops while they are fighting this war?? – Lorica