Apr 03 2007
Dems Need To Pass Troop Funds
The Democrats are beginning to insult the intelligence of the American people with more wasted Bills restating their well-known desire to retreat in failure from Iraq. Senate Majority leader Ried is sponsoring another Bill going nowhere with Russ Fiengold to defund military actions. I guess that was his price to pay for fully funding the war in the last Bill. Fully funded with a surrender date, partially, funded, no funding… When will the Democrats DO SOMETHING? Earth to Democrats: We got it. You don’t need to keep repeating your losing desires. They will not take the day so get on with funding the troops and stop crowing for the cameras. There is no more pressure or another variation of ‘the message’ that will change the fact this war is going to go on for another year.
I believe that the majority of the American Public will put the blame on the Democratic Congress.
If Reid and Feingold is going forth with the real troop defund resolution, they need to do it NOW. Not one year later. It’s now or never.
I don’t think they will have the votes to pass it.
Both resolutions should be vetoed.
And the public has high regard for Bush. The Democratic Congress are lying and flip-flopping scums.
Gonzales is not that busy dealing with his testimony. He’s busy doing his regular job. The Democratic Congress cannot charge him. Instead they would have to go to DoJ to request a special prosecutor. Hah!!
Retiree-
Are you a totally ignorant? Oversight of Congress is provided by the Executive Branch in the form of the Justice Department, FBI, etc.
The reason Congress has oversight over the Executive branch is because Justice and FBI are departments of the Executive branch. Comprende?
And of course the president has the right to fire a US Attorney for any reason – or no reason – as long as the reason is NOT an impermissible one: such as firing based on race, creed, gender, or for purposes of interfering with an ongoing investigation.
More importantly, however, neither the President, nor the AG has a right to LIE to Congress about WHY a US Attorney was fired. That is a felony.
What kind of crack are you smoking. The President has the lowest approval ratings since just befroe Nixon resigned. And he’s headed lower.
Oh – and Congress has the power to impeach the AG, Lurkboy. Gonzales will be gone before the end of April.
soothsayer:
http://ethics.senate.gov
Read – Learn
As to the President’s ratings; they are higher than the Congress or the Senates, even with all the yakking by the Dhimmicrats about how they were going to bring a new era of honesty to Congress.
But you go ahead and spout the rhetoric of the Dhimmicrats while their ratings with the American people continue to plummet. And when your bunch of thugs, with their hearing after hearing, finally shoots themselves in the foot, while it is in their mouth, you can slink off to never-never land where all Dhimmicrats go when they have let their mouths overload their ass.
Everything is a game to the soulless Left. They still have no remorse over the three million lives they are responsible for by betraying the South Vietnamese.
Soothsayer:
I remember when Janet Reno fired all of the Attorneys and gave them 10 days to clear out their desks and the Democrats thought it was fine that these people were fired for purely political reasons and people were hired for purely political reasons to replace them. But Democrats really do think the law does not apply to them.
The Democrats were on any and all committees when the Republicans were in control. All reports etc they signed off on. They can not come along now and act as if Bush kept them locked in a basement or something.
The public does have high regard for Bush, they may not always support his decisions but they tend to think he is a decent man.
And no, the Congress does not run the White House. They are co-equal branches of government. Remember when the Congress had a fit because the FBI went into Jefferson’s office and it turned out they were wrong..the DoJ could indeed serve a search warrant on a Congressman in his office.
And inspite of the new era where a man is presumed guilty when he is a Republican and shrieking Democrat says he is guilty, there is no evidence that Gonzales lied to Congress and if it gets to the place that any inconsistency or misunderstanding is going to be treated like a criminal offence by a partisan witch hunt then people will just take the Hillary and Bill route of saying I don’t recall. Or take the fifth.
I don’t think Gonzales will leave unless Bush replaces him during Easter. I hope he does not. There was no crime committed here. There was no motive to lie. The Democrats keep accusing Gonzales of all sorts of things, but prove nothing. They keep saying that innocent people were hurt or guilty people went free, but they prove nothing. After all, they will have to back this up with something other than partisan raving. I know you like it, but you are a partisan hate monger and as such have no idea what this looks like to people.
I read somewhere that only 8% of the population is playing close attention to this.
BTW Soothsayer, Clinton did fire people to stop an ongoing investigation. How do you think he got out of Whitewater?
Looks like the Democratic Congress’ ratings are declining while Bush’s ratings are on an incline.
Thanks, guys, for stepping in to rebut martin / soothie. Your responses are twenty times better than my responses would have been.
I see that it’s becoming apparent to the JOM posters that the left’s contention is that Bush used those 16-words in his 03 SOTU to justify going to war against Iraq (not the war in Iraq against Global Jihadism). NOT SO! Bush used UN 1441 to justify America’s invasion into Iraq.
In fact to this day Bush’s numbers are higher than Gore’s.
I think that what soothsayer does not realize is that in an effort to tear down Bush Democrats are wearing thin on peoples’ nerves. They might ruin him, but it could do them as much harm as it did the Republicans when they impeached Clinton.
And as for lying to Congress, Valerie Plame’s testimony in front of Congress about sending her husband to Africa is not the same as the Senate report or the testimony of other CIA agents. What do you think the chances are Waxman will go after her for lying to Congress?
I would say, none at all.
The Democrats are a bunch of pansies. They want to stop the war, and they have the lawful power to do so — by stopping the funding. But then the whole country would understand that it was the Democrats that stopped the war. So the Democrats want to be pussies about it and play games, and maybe coerce the Commander in Chief into conducting the war the way Congress says it needs to be waged, even though that’s not Congress’s prerogative — they want to do this and avoid responsibility for the consequences. Which makes them pussies. You’d think that if stopping the war was so freaking righteous, then they wouldn’t have any trouble stopping the war and being secure in their belief that they did the right thing. BUT NO! They KNOW the shit will hit the fan when the supply lines are cut before the troops have finished their work, so like weasels they have to maneuver. They create a funding bill that is completely useless and unacceptable and that MUST be vetoed, then they sit on it until the day AFTER the troops run out of funding, THEN they send it to the President.
What a dump of lowlifes Congress is.
The Dems and their Rep lap dogs are so transparent. They pass a bill designed to be vetoed to create a trap for Bush.Their thinking is so “first stage” that they are impressed with their supposed cleverness. The captive media will never hold them accountable. But history will and , hopefully, the American people in ’08 will.
AITCJ748, followed by the new Reid / Feingold / Kerry resolution!
Leftists don’t realize what mushrooms they are: being fed —- and kept in the dark.
Not a one of them demands the truth from their media idols. Such small, small people.
Hey Soothie, hit the tip jar yet?
Paypal link, upper right corner.
1)_ the exec branch “is” a co-equal branch of gov.
2) oversight..means..to oversee, monitor, supervise or look after ..not…..”change” the otherwise dutiful constitutionally inacted policy, decisions or directions of another branch of gov because you have political or policy differences with those elected officials decisions/policies, etc.
3) politics..or being political in disagreement..is not a crime.
4) there is no law, nor constitutional basis to argue that the congress has to agree on the sitting president’s policy inititiives..OR..they must be changed..or he must be impeached.
What the current DNC led congress is doing is not oversight…it’s sedition.
5) again..political and policy differences between branches of gov do not, therefore, constitute a “crime”.