Thursday, February 08, 2007

7 Republican Senators flip flop on Iraq debate, again

This is getting insane. John Warner gets more and more senile, and less and less fit to serve in the United States Senate with each passing day minute. First, Warner proposed what amounts to a do nothing resolution aimed at "sending a message" to fall upon deaf ears at the White House, then, he snubbed his own damn bill, followed by a pathetic excuse as to why. Chuck Hagel, on the other hand - we're still trying to figure out what type of drugs he's using, pretending to actually care, and be willing to take action, and then voting to hold up debate on Iraq.

Last night we learned that the two fellow incompetent Senators joined five other Republican degenerates in the Senate (Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Norm Coleman, Gordon Smith, and George V. Voinovich) who helped block deliberations on the resolution, and all sent around a letter yesterday threatening to attach their resolution to any bill sent to the floor in the coming weeks.

Noting that the war is the "most pressing issue of our time," the senators declared: "We will explore all of our options under the Senate procedures and practices to ensure a full and open debate."

The letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was not more specific about the Republican senators' strategy for reviving the war debate. But under the chamber's rules, senators have wide latitude in slowing the progress of legislation and in offering amendments, regardless of whether they have anything to do with the bill.

The letter stated that the "Senate should be allowed to work its will on our resolution as well as the concepts being brought forward by other senators."

So uh, tell me again why these fools voted against the debate in the first place? Or is that still an unknown as is why anyone ever elected them in the first place?

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