Bush,Republican's Growing Further Apart

   I am kind of still in the middle of getting settled in after moving last week so I'm only going to give you a bit of the news story from the day and maybe a small thought on the story. I will be back up and running at full kilt next week.

  For our first story, let us look at the dumbass in the White House and his newest veto threat against legislation calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq. ( source )

   As is so usual with George Bush, he once again isn't going to listen to the American people or the United States Congress when it comes down to doing anything right or moral. At the same time,  it's hard to do either of those things when you know nothing right and you have no lasting morals. This would be the case with Mr. Bush.

   Bush couldn't stop the U.S. involvement in Iraq even if he wanted to because both he and Dick Cheney are to beholden to the big oil company's and the stakes are to high for both men to just turn around and walk out of the Iraqi bullshit that they let the oil people pay them for.

On the situation in Iraq, Christopher Bond, R-Mo. "The strategy we had before was not the right strategy.We should have had a counterinsurgency strategy."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "we've lost more than 600 troops, costing the American taxpayers more than $60 billion. The escalation has done nothing to bring the Iraqi government together. It's done absolutely nothing to lessen the violence in Iraq."

  The Senator was speaking of the cost in life and funds since Bush ordered more troops into Iraq last winter.

Two Democrats, Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, back legislation to require a troop withdrawal to begin within 120 days, to be completed by the end of April 2008.

A vote is expected next week, and Reid said nearly all Democrats support the proposal. Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon is a supporter, as well, and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, told reporters she may switch her position and vote for it, too.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would call for a vote on a similar measure by week's end.

The Senate proposal appears to be short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a threatened Republican filibuster. Bush's veto threat applied to any legislation that sets an arbitrary date for withdrawal "without regard to conditions on the ground or the recommendations of commanders."

"Setting a date for withdrawal is equivalent to setting a date for failure," he said in a written statement that employed terms similar to those he used earlier in the year when he vetoed legislation that set a target date for a withdrawal.

In a further sign of eroding GOP support, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., called for troops to come home next year.

"Simply put, our troops have been doing a great job, but the Iraqi government has not," said Dole, the latest Senate Republican facing the voters in 2008 to switch positions on the war. "Our commitment in Iraq is not indefinite, nor should the Iraqi government perceive it to be."         YahooNews

   It's funny how so many Republicans are changing their views on the war in Iraq if they happen to be up for re-election in 2008. If these pigs really wanted to stop this mess, then they, along with many Democrats, would vote this war out of existence by cutting off Bush's war allowance. The game would then be over, would it not?

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Congress Ready For Battle?

  Washington, DC is full of our blowhard Congressmen freshly back from their Independence Day holiday vacation and they appear headed with a confrontation with idiot Bush over his claims of executive privilege when it comes to the Bush Crime Family having to hand over documents and other data to the Congress concerning investigations. It doesn't help Bush that the Congress is pissed off because he commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby while everyone was out for summer break.

  Republicans and Democrats are both questioning Bush and his flawed Iraq war policy with Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, saying today that there has been a steady erosion of support for the president's policy in Congress because of the "tremendous loss of life among our troops" (June) and "the failure of the Iraqi government to pursue the political reforms that are necessary to quell the sectarian violence."

   This should be an interesting week with the Democrats and the White House with a few investigations maybe heading towards contempt of court citations and possibly federal court if the investigators and the crooks in the White House can't come to any compromise over the requested documents and records.

 

_Monday is the deadline for the White House to explain why Bush is refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for e-mails and other documents on his aides' involvement in the firings of eight federal prosecutors last winter. The White House is not expected to comply with the deadline.

_In a pair of hearings Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee will look at Bush's commutation last week of Libby's prison sentence for obstruction of justice in the CIA leak case. The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to hear from former White House political director Sara Taylor about the prosecutor firings, according to Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

_The next day, the House panel is expected to turn to the prosecutor firings and has scheduled testimony from former White House Counsel Harriet Miers. It's unclear whether she will appear.    Source

   On Iraq:

"The president argued that we needed to undertake the surge in order to give the Iraq government the time, the space to pursue the political reforms," Collins said on CNN. "That hasn't happened. Instead it has been our troops who are making the sacrifice, who are bearing the burden, and that's why you see a real change in support for the Iraq strategy."

In Baghdad Monday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned that a quick American troop withdrawal could lead to civil war and the collapse of the Iraqi state.

   It would seem that the Iraqi Foreign Minister is eating the same bullshit that Bush and others have been feeding the American people for the past 4 years. Living in the state of delusion must be nice  at times! Maybe a real human being needs to go visit the Foreign Minister and take his rose colored glasses off of his face since they seem to be blinding him to the civil war going on around him.

   Anyway, the Democrats need to forget about playing nice with the White House and contempt of Congress citations and just gather up the Sargent at Arms, the Feds, and the military if necessary, and go drag those in contempt out of their offices and lock their sorry asses up until the hearings and trials are completed. Problem solved!

  These gutless Democrats had better start worrying about the battle that they will have to do with the American voter if they do not get off of their butts and do the job that we hired them to do!

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