Political Cover
The “USA Today” Gallup poll says that over sixty percent of Americans support a timetable to get out of Iraq and 36 percent favor keeping the troops in Iraq until the job is done.
These polls inspired eleven Republicans, who worry about getting reelected in 2008, to make a big deal about confronting Bush in a meeting. After the meeting, these politicians promptly told the media, that they had informed Bush, that he was hurting the Republican party. This was done to provide political cover with their constituents back home, who want a timeline for redeploying our troops out of Iraq. They’re concern was that their jobs were at risk, not that our troops were dying at the rate of a hundred a month.
The media speculated that Republicans were finally standing up to this president, but in the end all eleven vote to give Bush what he wanted.
Democrats may have to eventually compromise, because they don’t have the votes to override Bush’s veto. Nevertheless, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has established a benchmark for the end of July and may be prepared to call the Republicans’ bluff with a September deadline.
Predictably, attempts to negotiate with Bush failed to find a common ground, but a majority of Democrats in the House have stood their ground. They passed a plan that would withhold more than half of the $100 billion Bush wants to continue his surge. Their approach is to approve $43 billion through July. The rest of the money will be approved after the president gives Congress a detailed report on Iraq's military and political progress.
Oneonta area Democratic Representatives in Congress, Kirsten Gillibrand and Michael Arcuri endorsed Speaker Pelosi’s challenge to Bush’s conduct of the war by voting to limit war funding request until the end of July.
These polls inspired eleven Republicans, who worry about getting reelected in 2008, to make a big deal about confronting Bush in a meeting. After the meeting, these politicians promptly told the media, that they had informed Bush, that he was hurting the Republican party. This was done to provide political cover with their constituents back home, who want a timeline for redeploying our troops out of Iraq. They’re concern was that their jobs were at risk, not that our troops were dying at the rate of a hundred a month.
The media speculated that Republicans were finally standing up to this president, but in the end all eleven vote to give Bush what he wanted.
Democrats may have to eventually compromise, because they don’t have the votes to override Bush’s veto. Nevertheless, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has established a benchmark for the end of July and may be prepared to call the Republicans’ bluff with a September deadline.
Predictably, attempts to negotiate with Bush failed to find a common ground, but a majority of Democrats in the House have stood their ground. They passed a plan that would withhold more than half of the $100 billion Bush wants to continue his surge. Their approach is to approve $43 billion through July. The rest of the money will be approved after the president gives Congress a detailed report on Iraq's military and political progress.
Oneonta area Democratic Representatives in Congress, Kirsten Gillibrand and Michael Arcuri endorsed Speaker Pelosi’s challenge to Bush’s conduct of the war by voting to limit war funding request until the end of July.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home