GOP centrists get boost

[rodeodance]

Source: The Hill




GOP centrists get boost
By Elana Schor
September 12, 2007

The bloc of Senate GOP centrists whose votes are key to any effective push to leave Iraq may gain even more influence on war policy in the wake of Gen. David Petraeus’s watershed Tuesday testimony.

Republicans were breathing easy as Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, continued an unruffled defense of military progress there during his second day of testimony. But the solidifying positions of Senate leaders on both sides only strengthened the Republican center, where responses were hardly relieved.

Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) said he is working on a plan that envisions troop withdrawals in greater numbers than Petraeus’s suggested 30,000 by next summer. Petraeus’s proposed reduction would bring U.S. troop levels to about where they were before President Bush’s January “surge.”

“I don’t know if that’s enough for the American people,” said Smith, who faces a difficult reelection race next year. He was equally unsure that a withdrawal goal could win enough votes from both parties, adding: “I think the general’s been effective.”............

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[BushOut06]

1. GOP centrist - there's an oxymoron!

These GOP "centrists" are doing nothing more than trying to save their asses in the next election.

[WCGreen]

2. Bingo....

No centrist since they have let the lunitics on the far right dictate what their party is all about...