Are They Getting The Message?

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/14/congressional-leaders-acknowledge-disappointment/

Reid, Pelosi acknowledge Iraq ‘disappointment.’

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pledged yesterday to take new actions to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, “ending the silence that followed the White House’s outmaneuvering of Democrats last month” to pass an war spending bill with no timeline.

“They’ve been driving this debate very well,” Mr. Reid said later, speaking of the bloggers who have been pushing for Congress to end the war. “I understand their disappointment. We raised the bar too high.”

It has been nearly three weeks since Democrats have held a formal Iraq debate or voted on an Iraq proposal in the House or Senate. Not since they assumed the majority in January has there been such a lull. During the three weeks, Congressional approval ratings have fallen, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she knew why.

“It’s the war, I believe so, it’s the war,” Ms. Pelosi said in a brief interview on Wednesday. “In terms of the issue that the American people want to have resolved, the war is three or four times higher than any other issue.”

[leftchick]

1. they could start by calling it what it is

an OCCUPATION. Framing the debate correctly helps. Who the fuck would keep funding an OCCUPATION where deaths are escalating on both sides?

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. OTOH, what was a war, then an occupation, is quickly again

becoming a war - only it is a civil war and we are in the middle of it.

[sellitman]

2. Pssssssssssssst ....Nancy......

Can we Impeach yet?

[still_one]

3. Yes, it is like the story about the miner and the mule

A miner was trying to get a mule to move, but the mule wouldn't budge. As a stranger was passing by, the miner asked if he could help move the mule. The stranger picked up a board and slammed the mule with it. The miner asked, why did you do that? The stranger said, first you have to get the mule's attention.

[Burried News]

4. It isn't just the bloggers, the whole country hates this war.

But if Harry thinks he's going to play Lucy and hold the football for another field goal he's nuts.
Find someone else to help you camouflage who you really answer to, Harry.
You have pulled the ball away one too many times, to suit me. And tell Chuck Schumer and Carl Levin that we're on to them as well.

[Solly Mack]

5. More to the point - it's the lies and the crimes

it's a criminal executive

it's everything that has come along with the above

I'm disappointed when my cakes don't come out as hoped

I'm so many degrees beyond disappointed there needs to be a new word

[GeorgeGist]

7. "We raised the bar too high."

but you managed to sneak under it anyway.