Helen Thomas Podcast: Change in Iraq if Democrats get some backbone

[n2doc]

Helen Thomas' Washington: Change in Iraq if Democrats get some backbone


While Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi and President George W. Bush chat over lunch, Helen Thomas and Marc Sandalow can only speculate about what's on the menu. An olive branch from Bush, maybe?

Other questions Helen considers: How will Bush deal with the new Congress? How will Pelosi handle the more conservative members of her party? Will anything change in Iraq? And will the Dems try and impeach the President?

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[jean]

1. I've had it with the "backbone" meme, even from Helen.

[n2doc]

2. kick for the evening viewers...

And frankly the Democratic leadership in the Senate has amply earned scepticism. For every 1 Feingold there seem to be a Liberman, Biden, Landreau or two who relish "playing the middle" and we will just have to see how quick the DLC'ers compromise when the going gets tough.