TPMCafe: WaPo's Harold Meyerson: GOP WINO Caucus are "Gutless Wonders"

[flpoljunkie]

And they just proved Meyerson's point by refusing to vote for cloture for the Levin/Reed amendment.

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jul/18/wapos_harold_meyerson_gop_wino_caucus_are_gutless_wonders

WaPo's Harold Meyerson: GOP WINO Caucus Are "Gutless Wonders"
By Greg Sargent

In today's Washington Post, Harold Meyerson weighs in with an absolutely scorching column on the GOP WINO caucus -- that is, on the Repulicans who are Wavers In Name Only when it comes to their allegedly "wavering" support for Bush's war:

Anyone searching for the highest forms of invertebrate life need look no further than the floor of the U.S. Senate last week and this. These spineless specimens go by various names -- Republican moderates; respected senior Republicans; Dick Lugar, John Warner, Pete Domenici, George Voinovich...

The Lugars and the Warners seem to share with many of their Democratic colleagues a common assessment of our presence in Iraq: It has become an unfocused and costly occupation in a land beset by civil war...

Problem is, the Warners and the Lugars don't actually want to act on their perception. They oppose the legislation by Democrats Carl Levin and Jack Reed that would require the administration to begin reducing our forces in Iraq within 120 days and to remove all but that anti-jihadist force by next April...

These Republicans who proclaim their independence without acting on it have failed to come to terms with the single most important reality confronting them: that Bush and Cheney will keep the war going until Congress forces them to stop.

In this textbook description of the GOP WINO caucus, Meyerson goes on to call these Senators "spineless sages" and "gutless wonders." The whole thing is here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701487.html

[musiclawyer]

1. Harold Meyerson is real progressive

I recall him fondly reading LA Weekly years ago. I'm not sure how he got a gig at that snakepit Wash. Post.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Unless Warner does retire he will stay in the republican slop bucket

for ever. They are all scared as hell of rove and cheney. The little wimp and egomaniac bush is just the puppet as we all know. rove and cheney run this country.

And Warner will stay in the senate as long as he wants. Virginia is almost as bad as bush when it comes to approving of republican crap. They were brainwashed so well by Jerry Farwell. Until northern Virginia has more residents and it is growing for people who love this country democrats will go down in defeat for the senate and the house. My ancestors were ALL from Virginia, although I do not live there but I will say this Virginia sucks.