They just rejected an amendment, 50-48, that would have taken the timetable out of the bill.Reid was just talking, and says they have cloture in the morning tomorrow, noting that there are more than 100 amendments to be dealt with.The basics:Senate……

I was also thinking that a campaign to take out full pages ads in newspapers all across the country on the same day, would be a good way to cut through the MSM iron curtain. A page on a web-site just listing the contact info for all the reps/senators by district with sample letters to send would also be a step forward. Also, there could be an informational flyer available for people to print and distribute–another way to get through the iron curtain. Something like Americansunitedfor victoryinIraq.com?
The web-site should link to the appropriate related organizations and blogs.

So floating the idea is #1, and if response is hot, then the thing needs a great name that will grab everybody.

Actually I’m getting ahead of myself. #1 is raising awareness of what the Dems are up to–cutting through the noise of Gonzales-gate, and Anna Nicole Smith. Bill Bennett in particular is hammering on this point, and imho Hot Air needs to be similarly focused. To break into MSM consumer consciousness is a Herculean effort as Limerick pointed out above. But it was accomplished with the Dan Rather bogus memo, and it can be accomplished here. But only if the message is focused, and ubiquitous.

I’m especially interested in the second half of your post. In particular, how do we the people bring such things about?

People with connections, whether personal or through the blogosphere, and especially those who were involved in the planning of GOE need to contact the people they worked with on that. I just went back into the Vault for 3/17 and found these names for starters; Gathering of Eagles, Free Republic, Move America Forward. If you go to http://www.gatheringofeagles.org/ and read the frst post, you’ll notice how much infrastructure is in place. Here is an excerpt:

America can be divided into five regions. Thus, we need ten volunteers (five coordinators with five back-up/assistant coordinators) that can devote the time and energy when required, has the expertise to carry out a coordinators function, and assume the responsibility.

Basic responsibility for Regional Coordinators will be to enlist/identify State coordinators for every State in his/her region; keep abreast of events, activities within the region ; identify regional action as necessary; recommend initiatives within a region for national support; be prepared to support other region initiatives; raise funds for regional events; and be prepared to assist national coordinator as requested.

State/back-up/assistant Coordinators, Regional Coordinators a coordinator net within each individual State.

THIS is what needs to be taken advantage of. So, if people in the HA readership know some of these coordinators, they need to to conact them, and float the idea of organizing a really big demonstration ensuring that our soldiers don’t get cut off at the knees (again). If there is a very energized, motivated response, then there is what to build on.

How indeed? Forget the MSM. Without a Rupert Murdock we are left with the new media. That’ll take generations.

It’s amazing what can be accomplished in the internet age. A few years ago, in a terrible spring in which there were bombings nearly everday in Israel, and culminating in the Passover massacre in Netanya, a demonstration at the Capitol of 200,000 was pulled together in two weeks. And this is from the comparatively tiny Jewish community (and Christian friends, of course). But the motivation was there. People were horrified and looking for an outlet to express their anger and frustration. So here, too, if people are really cranked about what’s going on with the Dems, the reaction will be strong, and things could happen very fast, esp given what already been accomplished w/ respect to infrastructure. If everyone kind of shot their wad on the GOE, and responses are tepid, then it probably isn’t to be. So floating the idea is #1, and if response is hot, then the thing needs a great name that will grab everybody. I thought of the Million Sleeping Giants March, but while the idea is nice, it sounds lame, and makes it sound like a zombie movie or something. Others can do better.

I’ve heard this from alot of folks. The rumor seems to have started during his Law School days at the University of Kentucky. One would think Ms. Chao and their three daughters might have a different opinion however.

However, the old adage holds here. Love is Chemistry and Sex is Physics. It would be easy enough for these two to get together and squirt out 3 kids.

Whatever the case, I still like Mitch. Unlike the Democrat Party, the Republican Party practices tolerance for such things as this. ;)

by SeattleLiberal on 03.26.2007 at 10:11 PM:

Good old Mitch McConnell. An old closet gay male in a Brooks Brothers suit.

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Jeebus – another (hush hush) closeted GAY REPUBLICAN in government? The list just gets longer and longer – and most embarrassing for the hypocritical “oppose the homosexual agenda” crowd, eh?

- Lindsay Graham – Denny Hastert – David Dreier – Karl Rove – Ken Mehlman – Mark Foley – Matt Drudge – Ted Haggard – and now Mitch McConnell? Yeah, he looks like an old closet queen – and this ain’t the half of it – I’m forgetting a ton of them right now…

Of course, it’s not the “gayness” – it’s the hypocrisy – it’s the creepy secrecy – the way it is with all the republicans – always that creepy secrecy and hypocrisy.

It’s only a matter of time before each of them has a “Ted Haggard or a Mark Foley moment” of his very own, wouldn’t you say? How long before it’s good ol’ closet queen Mitch McConnell’s turn? Oh, you say there’s an ELECTION coming up? LOL!

SmellTheCoffee, tomk59

How indeed? Forget the MSM. Without a Rupert Murdock we are left with the new media. That’ll take generations. The problem is we on this side of the fence actually believe the other guy has a right to their opinion. We go to work. Play by the rules. Say ‘Yes Sir’ to the cop who is giving us a ticket, and fly the flag just to fly the flag.

The other side of the fence has the MSM and the George Soros’es willing to gamble their fortunes on putting us in the ground.

Praise God and pass the ammunition!

I think it’s important to note, however, that he sucked up to the DNC in his run for Governor and lost….bad. If he runs for the Senate he should probably back away from the DNC but if he does that he’ll lose their money. Lose, Lose.

Either way the money for the troops doesn’t get authorized, and this is the Dem’s ace in the hole. They’re counting on everyone being too interested in Gonzales-gate to notice what they’re up to, and they’ll keep on with their “the President won’t sign the spending bill authorizing money for the troops,” talking point, which people only paying half attention won’t see through. Veto or on veto, they can keep this bill bouncing around in committee limbo for heaven knows how long. And with this new offensive (see the Stakalog) on the line, a delay of even weeks is a very bad thing.

It’s time for Joementum to stand up and make his voice heard on this subject–and everyone should be glomming onto Koppel’s great formulation from last week–you’ve got it backwards; if they can’t meet the benchmarks, we leave just when they need our help; if they do meet the benchmarks we stay? Huh? That’s the kind of common sense the American people can relate too.

And I’d still like to see the momentum from the Gathering of Eagles be capitalized on. As much as Vietnam vets didn’t want to see the memorials defaced; as much as they wanted to make the kind of statement of support for the troops that they never got, I can’t believe they want to live the nightmare of watching the Democrats snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory all over again. I know this crowd isn’t the type to march around carrying signs–too much association with the anti-war 60’s demonstrations, perhaps–but now the ice has been broken. The poll numbers must be swung around to the side of support for the war, and this requires the silent majority standing up and being counted. It’s the only way out of this. If the numbers swing in favor of the war, the opportunistic Dems will run from their current positions pell mell, like cockroaches scattering when you turn on the light (in NYC). There are a lot of the pieces in place, because of the GOE–and blogs which can spread the word like wildfire. It’s got to come from the people; the politicians WILL NOT get it done.

/Soapbox>

No offense taken. ;) As a life long Kentuckian with ancestral roots going back to when Kentucky was three counties of Virginia I can certainly appreciate your “red-blue schizophrenia” comment. Kentuckians are viciously independent in their thinking. We have a tendency sometimes to take a contrary position just because we don’t like the messenger. ;) There is one thing about Kentuckians that Chuckie Schumer cannot possibly understand and the nutroots…even our own nutroots…haven’t wrapped their pointy little heads around. We love our Commonwealth and the Union she’s a part of. The VAST majority of Kentuckians(not just the folks in Lexington and Louisville) want to win this war in grand style.

If they trot out a Democrat to run against Mitch, I don’t know who it might be. The only politically surviving member of the Patton administration has just gotten over a health scare as she sat in the State Auditor’s office(Crit Luallen). I don’t think she will go after Mitch. Paul Patton, former Governor, would still suffer mightily from his bit of horizontal dancing. There’s the Speaker of the House, Jody Richards, who has tried a couple times for Governor with less than admirable results. Greg Stumbo, our current Attorney General, has a long LONG list of Bill Clinton-esque adventures to deal with. So who is it going to be? The next Governor? That list is long but they will be going up against Ann Northup, former Congresswoman from Louisville.(I don’t think Ernie Fletcher has a prayer of getting re-elected).

If there is a candidate out there I don’t know who it would be. Whoever it is, they will have to appeal to both the mountain folks in the east and the rural Agricultural folks in the west as well as the Lexington and Louisville cityfolk. Good luck with that.

Kentuckians want to win this war. Any candidate who seems to side with the Dhimmi position will run into much MUCH static in my Commonwealth.

Hunters of Kentucky
- Samuel Woodworth
…
But Jackson, he was wide awake,
And was not scared of trifles;
For well he knew what aim we take
With our Kentucky rifles;
He led us down to Cypress Swamp,
The ground was low and mucky;
There stood John Bull in pomp,
And here was old Kentucky.

Chorus
Oh, Kentucky, The hunters of Kentucky
Oh, Kentucky, The hunters of Kentucky

A bank was rais’d to hide our breast,
Not that we thought of dying,
But that we always like to rest,
Unless the game is flying;
Behind it stood our little force
None wished it to be greater,
For ev’ry man was half a horse,
And half an alligator.

Be Proud Kentucky.

And do yourself a favor. Lose the all or nothing allegiance to the party; there may be different degrees and tactics,but at the end of the day it’s two peas in the same pod, and everybody loses.

For what it’s worth to you, I vote Republican, I agree with them on most issues, I’m just disgusted with their politics and gutless garbage and their inability to stand up to the obvious gutless garbage that goes on with the other side. A while back I decided that under no circumstances even if they were running against Satan would I ever again even so much as consider voting for a Democrat.

But, not knowing me, anything about me, or even my point that I was expressing above, maybe this will clear it up for you.

And if it doesn’t, you can kiss my ass.

As far as not filibustering….bullpucky….this ‘Bush will cover our butt’ logic is like letting your platoon leader walk into a sniper because he is a good ducker. Fight the bastards. What a wise and grand strategy to give the Dems another ‘victory’ in the MSM.

Allah asks: Does the logic here fly, though?

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And Amerpundit says: And as I said, if the Dems fail to fund the troops, their majority in Congress will be extremely short lived.

This is why he’s not gonna ‘buster it. Obviously McConnell can’t say this, but he’s gonna let the Surrender Coalition pass their bills, let the Pres veto exactly because it’ll take more time, and the Surrender Coalition will either be forced to pass a no-strings or maybe very limited strings attached bill(given how much pork they had to throw in to get their bill), or flounder and not get anywhere, and then get bludgeoned for not getting the military the money they need.

People aren’t happy with Iraq, but they aren’t about to take the Surrender Coalition denying the military funds because they’re trying to force withdrawal and tag the loss on Bush and the GOP.

The Army loses it’s money on April 15. Period. The Republicans are determined to make sure that funding is reauthorized.. this must be done within two weeks.

They’re not playing games.. the Democrats of course are all about playing games.. and now we’re at the mercy of the Democrats bi-polarity.

Put the blame where it belongs instead of blowing your wad all over the palce.

Won’t do me any good in the long term, but I am proud of my decision to be an independent. The Republican and Democratic parties disgust me beyond all words and description.

Should we, at least in some semblance, survive what they will bring upon us in the not too distant future through their selfishness, deceit, and cowardice,the first act of any America that rises from the ashes should be to disallow any resurrection of the Republican or Democratic parties, upon pain of death.

I’m sure the nutroots will be above board and not make cheap cracks about his wife’s ethnicity. Respect for diversity and all that.

JammieWearingFool on March 26, 2007 at 8:18 PM

Allow me to supply the </sarcasm> tag to properly close that off :-)