NYTimes Editorial: "Bush loyalists seem trapped in the twilight zone, ducking"

[rodeodance]

July 19, 2007
Editorial
Twilight Zone Filibusters
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/opinion/19thur1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

But beyond that, the Republicans are doing the public a real disservice and playing an increasingly risky hand by delaying sober consideration of the war. The filibuster threat on Iraq also is part of a broader Republican tactic of demanding supermajorities on a raft of major issues in the hopes of paralyzing the Senate and then painting the Democrats as a do-nothing, marginal majority.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tested the opposition’s stated appetite for unhampered debate by staging an all-nighter Tuesday replete with cots and pizzas. A measure containing a withdrawal timetable failed to get the 60 votes it needed, but it did draw a 52-vote majority, including four Republicans, that amounted to more handwriting on the wall for Bush loyalists. A year ago, a nonbinding withdrawal measure drew 39 votes. The tide is shifting, even if the White House and its Republican backers won’t recognize it.

The minority leader, Mitch McConnell, notes the Democrats engaged in similar guerrilla tactics when they were in the minority. But Mr. McConnell should keep in mind that voters can tell the difference between principled resistance and political showmanship. The Democrats’ former minority leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota, lost his seat three years ago when he was roundly attacked by the opposition for running a partisan, obstructionist minority.

The Iraq war stands apart as a watershed issue — a downward spiral that the public increasingly sees as a colossal waste of the nation’s blood and treasure.

In postponing real action to September and beyond, Republicans laughed off the all-night debate as a “slumber party” of “twilight zone” theatrics by the Democrats. In fact, Bush loyalists seem trapped in the twilight zone, ducking their responsibility to represent constituents by applying credible pressure on the president to come up with an end to his sorry war.

[Joe Bacon]

1. Wow, the pot calls the kettle black

The paper that gave Judy Miller a blank check writes THIS bullshit?

The same propaganda organ that Bob Somerby documents in The Daily Howler as engaging in a Bush Asskissing contest with the Whoreshington Post?

Check out Bob's archives at http://www.dailyhowler.com and see what liars write for THE SCREW YORK TIMES!

[acmavm]

2. The same assholes that know bush** was wearing a wire during the

debates.

I don't really give a shit what the NYT prints, they will always be bush** supporting liars and quislings in my book.

Someone should tell them that integrity is like virginity. Once it's gone, it's gone.

[Joe Bacon]

3. Tom Tomorrow nailed these liars cold

This is his greatest cartoon! It tells the truth about the whores who run THE SCREW YORK TIMES!

http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=22437

[acmavm]

4. You're right. That does show them for what they are, enablers of a

corrupt regime.

[Diane R]

6. Will the truth ever be told about that wire? We all saw it....

[Joe Bacon]

8. No

The SCREW YORK TIMES has too much at stake with media deregulation to tell the truth.

[Diane R]

5. A lot of re-writing history is going to go on.

[enid602]

7. "Bush loyalists seem trapped in the twilight zone"

It's no picnic for us, either.