The Trial Balloon at Last is Being Floated
According to this report Majority Leader Harry Reid is considering cutting off funding for the Iraq War if President Bush vetoes the bill that will come out of committee setting a deadline for withdrawal.
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he will try to cut off funding for the Iraq war if President Bush rejects Congress’ proposal to set a deadline for ending combat.
The move is likely to intensify the Democrats’ rift with the administration, which already contends Democrats are putting troops at risk by setting deadlines.
“It’s time the self-appointed strategists on Capitol Hill understood a very simple concept: You cannot win a war if you tell the enemy you’re going to quit,” Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday at fundraising luncheon for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R, Ala)
Actually, as Tonto and I have discussed, it’s about time Democrats come out and publicly try a clean bill that defunds the war instead of playing footsie the way they have been for the past three months.
I’d be interested to see how far their “mandate” will take them though with only a 2 vote majority in the Senate, with one of them being Lieberman who will never vote to defund, and only a 34 vote majority in the House.
Of course you’ll have some conservative Democrats and some Liberal Republicans crossing party lines to vote with the other side, but I think I can safely say it will not be a veto-proof vote.
Sister Toldjah has a more comprehensive post on this story. It seems Russ Feingold of Campaign Finance Reform fame is sponsoring and Reid is co-sponsoring this bill.
Written by ~J~
smh10 Says:
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:46 pmVisit smh10
I have attempted to understand where the Democrats are coming from on this issue and how they feel it helps their cause by appearing to not support our troops. Needless to say it has been a lost cause.
20 years of my life were spent travelling this world as the daughter of an American soldier and I have spent 33 years married to a Marine. Please do not let me hear the Democrats who suppport this move tell me they support the troops but not the war. You simply cannot have it both ways. There is one Commander in Chief and a wonderful military who follows his orders. And that, dear Democrats is the way the Constitution provides whether you like it or not!