Those Democratic Senators Just Don’t Learn Spit

1:33 am EST September 25th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

2002

In a major victory for the White House, the Senate early Friday voted 77-23 to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to give up weapons of mass destruction as required by U.N. resolutions.

Hours earlier, the House approved an identical resolution, 296-133.

The president praised the congressional action, declaring “America speaks with one voice.”

2007

The five-year anniversary of the congressional resolution to authorize the Iraq war is less than three weeks away, and prospects for legislation by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and others to revoke that authority have dissipated in the face of stiff opposition within the Senate Democratic Caucus.

The issue of de-authorization has been fodder along the presidential campaign trail, but has been largely ignored in the halls of Congress, where senior Democrats argue it would do little to change the conduct of the war.

“I think it raises more problems than it solves,” said Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who is managing the pending defense authorization bill, the vehicle for this month’s Iraq debate in the Senate.

Clearly this, along with voting for a blank check for Bush again and again and again will stop the Republicans from calling the Democrats mean names. We showed them.