Choices
23 May 2007 5:11 pm by Taylor Marsh
Choices updated
Keith Slams Democratic Leadership, Bush and the Republicans
Those who seek the Democratic nomination need to—for their own political futures and, with a thousand times more solemnity and importance, for the individual futures of our troops—denounce this betrayal, vote against it, and, if need be, unseat Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi if they continue down this path of guilty, fatal acquiescence to the tragically misguided will of a monomaniacal president. – Olbermann: The entire government has failed us on Iraq.
It makes you wonder what might have been if Jack Murtha would have been in
a leadership position instead of Steny Hoyer. I'm not kidding. Because I smell
a rat. A moderate, well coiffed, self important, posturing rat. Hey,
but I could be wrong. Nah.
But an email I got a little earlier made me wonder. Where's the filibuster?
It's a good question.
After all, aren't we in charge or at least supposed to be… or at least act
like it?
Besides Feingold, who isn't running for president, Dodd was the first candidate out on this issue.
Biden will vote for the bill, according to his interview today on “Hardball.”
Old school, which I talked about before.
We know Edwards would not vote for the bill.
What about candidates Obama and Clinton? Digby
weighed in earlier today. ABC did too.
Either route chosen will bring with it huge potential political pitfalls,
as Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., tacitly acknowledged Wednesday afternoon
in her dismissive comments to reporters asking her how she will vote.“When I have something to say, I will say it, gentlemen,” Clinton
told journalists.(snip)
Clinton initially said that her vote was not necessarily in support of the
substance of the Feingold amendment, but rather just to open the matter for
discussion.“I'm not going to speculate on what I'm going to be voting on in the
future,” Clinton said. “I voted in favor of cloture to have a debate.”Later in the day, Clinton changed her tune, saying, “I support the underlying
bill. That's what this vote on cloture was all about.”A spokeswoman for the rival Dodd campaign said, “We're as confused as
anyone on Sen. Clinton's position,” highlighting the scrutiny surrounding
Clinton's delicate position on Iraq. … ..
This is going to get very interesting. Clinton is not a dove; in fact, she's
not inherently anti war. She needs to get creative. As for Obama, I haven't heard a word yet.
John Amato's got a great post on something
Harry Reid should definitely do. But he won't.
The Democrats “Neville Chamberlain moment” is how Keith Olbermann
just characterized yesterday's “compromise.” The swipe was well earned.
