Boehner was at the meeting too, although he says he let the moderates do most of the talking.

This is precisely the problem and it makes me want to puke! The “moderate” have had too much talking time on the right side of the aisle and it’s what’s killing the conservative movement. Now, if they have their way it could literally be killing the American way of life.

Those days are gone.

honora on May 10, 2007 at 11:08 AM

They sure are – it’s a breeze now to sail all bills through.

Not at all. It was a rejection of RINO politics. Of weakness on illegals, of overspending like no Democrats had ever done, or failing to obey their oaths of office.

Freelancer on May 9, 2007 at 10:12 PM

I wish you were right on all of these, but I don’t see a useful difference between Bush and the Dems on illegal immigration. This and the other issues you describe are what is in the balance now.

It’s not that I think a “victory” in Iraq is impossible, it’s just that the amount of blood that will have to be spilled would be enormous, and too much of it will be American.

I reject the idea that the Iranians will be able to magically take control, even at gun point, if we leave. I hope they try, because it will ensure they end up bleeding even more so than we have.

But events have moved on http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/10/majority-of-iraqi-mps-endorse-bill-demanding-timetable-for-us-withdrawal/, Iraqi lawmakers (HA!) know we are leaving and are voting to say they wanted us out all along. It won’t save their worthless lives, but it’s good to see them crawl. Most of them were interested only in stealing.

I think I muffed the link!

Why is it so much worse for the Iraqis to take a week off than it is for the dems to take a week off with no money for the troops?

csdeven on May 9, 2007 at 10:24 PM

Because we are not in the midst of a bloody civil war or sectarian violence.

PS, for future reference, if W would follow the normal budget procedure and include his military spending in the regular budget instead of this supplementary bullshit, he wouldn’t be facing this problem.

It should be painfully obvious by now that he’s really not smart enough to out-smart the system. When the Republicans held the Congress and had serious leaders in place they could cover his butt. Those days are gone.

Well, this is what we got from the “summer of love”, a whole generation of faithless bastards.

I hope whatever crawls out of the mud after us finds a fossil record of HA so they will know we all weren’t insane.

Limerick on May 9, 2007 at 9:38 PM

No, God’s sense of humor would have the following items found which would be viewed by future scholars as the religious icons of our age:

One picture of Rosie (Mother Earth)
The one existing picture of Allah Pundit (Zeus)

Scholars will conclude that eons previously the Zeus and Mother Earth began populating the earth with humans.

Not at all. It was a rejection of RINO politics. Of weakness on illegals, of overspending like no Democrats had ever done, or failing to obey their oaths of office.Freelancer on May 9, 2007 at 10:12 PM

Are you saying that the base stayed home and voluntarily gave up the house and senate in 2006?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831055/posts?page=151#151

And when that happens, it’ll be W’s fault.

The Dems will claim they didnt get good intelligence.

Unless proven by one of the “leakers” coming forward and identifying himself, this is nothing but a psyops campaign attempting to demoralize the Republican Party by the Treason Party and former staffer Russert.

My scale of belief for what NBC, or the Associated (with terrorists) Press, is somewhere between zip and zilch.

Republican lawmakers know the results of the last US election were, more than any other single issue, a referendum on the war.

Not at all. It was a rejection of RINO politics. Of weakness on illegals, of overspending like no Democrats had ever done, or failing to obey their oaths of office.

Yawn. Let me know when a credible source reports this.

Why did these 11, or some of them talk to the media? Russert already thought he was the media Messiah? Now what will he be, if he doesn’t have a heartattack?

I think we should consider more of a containment policy. Retreat to neighboring countries that are freinds and work with them to protect them.

Iraq would then logically become Iran and Syria’s problem. Al Queda has no love for either the Ayatollahs or the Baathists of Syria. The bloodshed in Iraq wouldnt stop.

But once Iraq become as bad as darfar it will start to discredit those that push for this war to end on the insurgency terms. We will look bad for abandoning the Iraqi people to barbarism but ultimately the Islamics will finally be seen around the world as the barbarians they are.

Sometimes in military terms you take a defeat move to a better position then hit back. I think we have to consider the longer game rather than the short term stability of Iraq. We need to ultimately defeat Al Queda not create a Marshall plan for Iraq.

Our military has to win the bigger fight against Islamofacism and not just the battle for Iraq.