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Written by GussSen. John Warner (R-Va.) isn’t giving an inch on revealing his plans.
No matter that he hasn’t raised much money for a 2008 reelection bid (fueling speculation that he will not run for a sixth term). Or that this influential legislator on defense matters is challenging the White House’s policy on Iraq (suggesting perhaps that he’ll stick around to finish business
Right now, he will say only that he remains focused on passing the proposal he introduced last week with Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) to revisit what he calls the “obsolete” war authorization and require the administration to begin drawing up nonbinding troop redeployment plans. Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday postponed votes on the defense authorization bill and any war-related amendments, including Warner’s, because Republicans demanded a 60-vote margin for passage. But Warner was undaunted.“We can’t have any more loss of life. We need to restore the loss of credibility in some measure of the country and remain a respected source of authority in that region,” said Warner, 80. “We want to bring a measure of stability to Iraq, but at the same time, this needs to be brought to a conclusion.”
As a longtime senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Warner is a highly respected voice on the conflict. The World War II veteran and former Navy secretary startled Republicans last year when he returned from a trip to Iraq and said that the country seemed to be “drifting sideways.” And as the Armed Services Committee’s chairman during the Abu Ghraib scandal, he raised eyebrows when he insisted in 2004 that Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time, testify under oath.
~J~ Says:
July 19th, 2007 at 5:09 amVisit ~J~
There is something about Potomac Fever that makes octogenarians think they are immortal. The guy should retire along with a few others in his age bracket and who have served so many terms they’ve become stale as far as any fresh ideas. Ted Kennedy, Ted Stevens, Daniel Inouye, Robert Byrd are among them.
Ted Kennedy is not yet an octogenarian but he qualifies as having been there too long. About 40 plus years.
Guss Says:
July 19th, 2007 at 5:14 amVisit Guss
I wish that we could dump anyone over two terms.
david Says:
July 19th, 2007 at 7:15 amVisit david
Guss-2 terms is too short for the House. I remember reading an article in the ABA Journal about the negative experience in Ohio with term limits. Essentially, the learning curve is so difficult on budget matters that the Ohio budget is developed by legislative staff, not the elected officials. I’ve seen plenty of senior legislators, thought to be invincible, lose to new faces in my state legislature. I’m rather ambivalent about term limits, but do not support a 2 term limit. It really hurts the smaller states. We only have 5 members of Congress and some of our power comes from seniority. The voters in my state have been very good about imposing their own term limits. Anyway, I’m afraid a total of 4 years in the House would make it an even more useless body. I could live with 5 or 6 terms in the House and perhaps 3 or 4 in the Senate, though.
Guss Says:
July 19th, 2007 at 7:24 amVisit Guss
I was thinking of the Senate when I made that statement.
You’re absolutely correct that two terms in the house are not enough to even get your staff together.