Even as his closest supporters jump ship, the President continues to cry Elephant Tears. Meanwhile, the Democratic leadership is taking up the call and making the tough choices necessary to reign in our petulant, mean-girl, President.
As George W. Bush prepares to de-fund his own war of choice, the Democratic leadership in the US Senate prepares to live up to its responsibilities to the Military and the people of the United States of America and end the Bush Disaster once and for all.
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER COSPONSORS FEINGOLD BILL TO REDEPLOY TROOPS FROM IRAQ
April 2, 2007Washington D.C. --¡ U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today that they are introducing legislation that will effectively end the current military mission in Iraq and begin the redeployment of U.S. forces. The bill requires the President to begin safely redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq 120 days from enactment, as required by the emergency supplemental spending bill the Senate passed last week. The bill ends funding for the war, with three narrow exceptions, effective March 31, 2008.
"I am pleased to cosponsor Senator Feingold's important legislation," Reid said. "I believe it is consistent with the language included in the supplemental appropriations bill passed by a bipartisan majority of the Senate. If the President vetoes the supplemental appropriations bill and continues to resist changing course in Iraq, I will work to ensure this legislation receives a vote in the Senate in the next work period."
"I am delighted to be working with the Majority Leader to bring our involvement in the Iraq war to an end," Feingold said. "Congress has a responsibility to end a war that is opposed by the American people and is undermining our national security. By ending funding for the President's failed Iraq policy, our bill requires the President to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq."
Even as his closest supporters jump ship, the President continues to cry Elephant Tears. Meanwhile, the Democratic leadership is taking up the call and making the tough choices necessary to reign in our petulant, mean-girl, President.
America requires leadership and leadership requires courage. This isn't a game of chicken. This isn't a game. This is about respecting the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, America's reputation in the world, and our military readiness to protect our critical national interests.
This is a time for America to unite behind the true leadership of the Democratic majority, and demand a modicum of maturity and responsibility of a President gone wild.
The question is no longer whether Bush is the worst president in American history, but whether his example hereby discredits the entire conservative movement and Republican party.
Good post. Kudos to Reid and Feingold.
As a geezer who has been perversely interested in politics and international affairs since watching as a child the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the Arab-Israeli war simultaneously unfold on TV in 1956, I suspect that the planet may now be entering its most critical period since the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962.
The Bush Administration is imploding by the hour. The Democratic leadership seems finally to have discovered the backbone to compel policy shifts in more rational directions. Speaker Pelosi is trying to do what Secretary of State Rice is unable to do: serve as an honest broker among parties in the region.
Although the U.S. naval buildup in the Gulf is essentially complete, Robert Gates seems to be resisting pressure from the bunker to launch air strikes against Iran. The Saudis and Jordanians are distancing themselves from the Bush Administration. The Russians may well be giving the Iranians up-to-the hour intelligence on U.S. movements and likely intentions, for they would stand to gain geopolitically from any degree of further U.S. embarrassment in the Middle East. And, were the U.S. to launch a "shock and awe" attack, the Iranians would have at least some capacity to make the Gulf a very unpleasant neighborhood for our fleet and the world's oil tankers. Pakistan, which actually has nuclear weapons, lurches toward instability. The Chinese cautiously stand back and await developments in order to be in a position to pick up some of the pieces. They can afford to take the long view.
It doesn't get much more fascinating than this. Back to the news wires.......
