Reply #5: Kerry would not get us out of Iraq that fast [View All]

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1) WASHINGTON POST reports: The last 100 troops will be exiting Iraq leaving behind only am embassy guard and Iraqis in complete control of their country.

2) John Edwards presides over the Senate on final vote for passage of a balanced budget amendment (in view of the Bush deficit being wiped out in January).

3) Gas prices reached a new low of 96 cents a gallon as the Kennedy-Grassley partnership deal with Venezuela is finalized.

4) President Kerry is expected to sign an executive order finally ending "Dont Ask Dont Tell" as Tennessee became the 25th state to establish same-sex marriage rights.

5) Vice-president Edwards is expected to announce his candidacy for President in 2008 during his interview with Phil Donahue on Fox's "Donahue Reports" tonight.

6) Secretary of State Tom Daschle will give a major speech at the UN outlining the nuclear truce agreement with Iran and North Korea.

7) Secretary of Defense Wes Clark will formally begin dismantling the NSA.

8) Attorney General Hillary Clinton will send her final draft for universal health care to the Senate. It is expected to pass wth huge republican support.

9) Helen Thomas will be the principal speaker at the National Journalists' Convention in Orlando. Her topic: "Finally, a free press!"

10) Secretary of Education Evan Bayh reports that funding for a guaranteed college education for all C and above students in US high schools is nearing completion.

11) Senator Minority Leader Trent Lott holds a strategy session on Capitol Hill (in the basement of the Reyburn Building courtesy of John Conyers) for the 33 Republican Senators on "how to increase our numbers in the Senate in the 2006 midterms."

12) The Governor of Louisiana is expected to report to FEMA Director Dick Gephart that all residents of New Orleans who wish to return to their destroyed houses will receive loans at 3% interest from the new federal disaster loan fund marshalled by former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

13) In a new CNN-Time Warner poll 83% of Americans surveyed say they are happy with their
jobs and that the economy is getting better.


1) I suspect we'd still have about 100,000 troops there at this time, and DU would start losing patience with him.

2) An amendment would not balance the budget, and the hole Bush has us in will take 5 years minimum.

3) That's way too optimistic. I'd settle for $1.50, though.

4) He may have signed the executive order, but Tennessee for same sex marriage? Not yet.

5) Why would Edwards do that with Kerry up for reelection in 2008?

6) Possibly.

7) No way.

8) Hillary doesn't want the AG's job, and the AG does not send health care legislation to the Hill.

9) Plausible

10) Maybe, but I could see those pinheads in Congress watering such a plan down to nothing.

11) Not plausible.

12) Realistic. I could see that happening.

13) Possibly.