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Democrats Newly Willing to Compromise on Iraq

Presumably that in itself is enough to make you push away from the table in disgust, but unfortunately there’s more:

After short-circuiting consideration of votes on some bipartisan proposals on Iraq before the August break, senior Democrats now say they are willing to rethink their push to establish a withdrawal deadline of next spring if doing so will attract the 60 Senate votes needed to prevail.

Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, said, “If we have to make the spring part a goal, rather than something that is binding, and if that is able to produce some additional votes to get us over the filibuster, my own inclination would be to consider that.”

Democrats would need to lure the 60 senators in order to cut off a likely Republican filibuster.

Does it not occur to these BARELY FUNCTIONAL MORONS that THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF THE SENATE, that THEY CAN REFUSE TO EVEN CONSIDER ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR IRAQ WITHOUT A WITHDRAWAL PLAN?

Let the GOP filibuster all they want. Make THEM the roadblock to peace, prosperity and all that is good and holy.

We’ve got a goddamn choir of castrati instead of a congress.

I apologize for the all-caps, but this is just fucking sickening.

[emphasis added, obviously.]

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McCain is right.

From Arianna Huffington:

The Democrats’ thinking on this is unfathomable — it makes no sense logically, morally or politically. They have the majority of the American people wanting to bring this war to an end; a constant stream of tragic news from Iraq; and a president committed to “stay the course” despite all evidence that the course we are on is taking us over the cliff.

It’s time for Democrats to stop sounding the retreat on ending the war and actually pay attention to John McCain, who said that if they “are serious that we ought to stop the war” they should “bring up a bill to cut off the funding and end it.”

McCain is right. Exercising their Constitutional power of the purse is exactly what Democrats need to do if they are serious about ending the war. And if they are serious about winning in 2008.

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1. By bushtool on September 7th, 2007 at 6:30 am (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).