The Hill: McConnell: Democrats are divided over Iraq and won't be able to stop White House strategy

[DeepModem Mom]

McConnell: Democrats are divided over Iraq
By Klaus Marre

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that Democrats are split over Iraq and will not be able to stop the White House's Iraq strategy.

"The Democrats are divided among themselves," McConnell said in an interview with Fox News. "You've not seen it yet because they've tried to put forward only one proposal. But they're divided among themselves over the appropriateness of cutting off funds for the troops."

Asked whether Democrats could stop the war in Iraq through a restriction in funding, McConnell said: "They could do it if they had the votes and they had the presidential signature. I don't think they're going to have either."

But McConnell also indicated that his patience with regard to Iraq wasn't endless. While he has strongly supported President Bush's "surge" plan, he told Fox that the Iraqis "need to get it right this time."

McConnell's Republicans have twice succeeded this month in stopping the Democrats from moving to a vote on a non-binding resolution opposing the surge. But the Democrats gained more votes on the second try. The first cloture vote Feb. 5 was 49-47, while the second cloture vote Feb. 17 got the support of 56 senators. That is only four shy of the required majority....

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/022107/democrats.html

[Totallybushed]

1. WHY?

Why are they divided? Can't they count? Who's in control of both Houses of Congress? What issue got them elected?

Why are the Democratic leaders such schmucks and wimps?

[underpants]

6. They fear McConnell'S sexual magnetism and imposing brute force

[rodeodance]

8. well, that make me almost PUKE!

[DeepModem Mom]

10. In spite of myself -- LOL! nt

[CookieD]

18. McConnell = Teve Torbes. n/t

[City Lights]

21. A face not even his mother could love!

Ugh! Was he born without lips, or are they stuck to the chimp's ass?

[Virginia Dare]

2. Could be McConnell's a lying schmuck too..

seems to me it's the Republics that are divided, project much Mitchy boy?

[Massachusetts]

3. mitch mcconnell = Milque Toast

[Dr.Phool]

4. McConnell almost makes Frist sound intelligent.

The repukes are so sad, these are the best "leaders" they can offer?

[rodeodance]

9. your key word is 'almost'

[Inuca]

20. Actually, I think McConell IS smart

and therefore more dangerous than Frist. The same goes for Lott.

[Monkeyman]

5. McConnell has a LTTE in the Chicago Tribune

I tried to post a link calling for DU help Link did not work. If you go there its in opinion under letters to the editor.

[Monkeyman]

15. I see some DU family has given his letter to the editor hell

Thank you for the support

[City Lights]

22. I posted the letter and link in GD this morning.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=271805&mesg_id=271805

Great comments posted on the Trib's site! :thumbsup:

[Doctor_J]

7. So is the GOP

I guess Big Media won't be reporting that though :eyes:

[Beetwasher]

11. Thank You Mr. McConnell, We'll Take Your Word For It

It's not like you might have an agenda or anything. :eyes:

[Not a robought]

12. So if the Iraqis don't get it right this time

and McConnell comes to the end of his patience, what happens then? Call the whole thing off?

[longship]

13. Repuke definition: divided

"divided" means that Joe Lieberman is opposed to every one of the Democrats.

That's what a repuke means when he or she says that the Dems are divided.

[rcdean]

14. He's right. But he's trying to goad us.

THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO GOAD US INTO DEFUNDING.

Defunding Iraq would mean the Dems would be forever blamed for losing Iraq.

They are desperately looking for a political way out of their own disaster. They want to blame the Iraq failure on us.

We must do absolutely nothing to disturb history's solid, unequivocal verdict that Bush and the Neocons and the Right Wing are the ones to blame for this disaster.

So if being divided means we can't vote to defund, then that's good.

The right wing and the American people have to learn once and for all that invading and occupying another country in a war of choice will result in nothing but abject failure.

I thought 55,000 of us dying in Nam would drill this lesson into the American psyche, but apparently more blood must be spilled before we, as a nation, get the point!

[Zhade]

24. The public now KNOWS b*sh lied us into war. A huge majority now oppose the war.

Your analysis is flawed.

[MGKrebs]

27. Bush would never sign it anyway.

So some Dems might choose to not vote to de-fund for any number of reasons; trading this vote for something more meaningful; if they view their district opinion to reflect that vote; or maybe they just would disagree with the details of the bill- timing, implementation, whatever.

Nevertheless, I suppose there would be a whole new crop of Dems that some DUers will never be able to vote for again.

[Up2Late]

16. He's just one of many Delusional ReThuglicans.

Hey Mitch! Stop being an "Obstructionist!"

[The Stranger]

17. United we stand, but divided we fall, and fall and fall and fall and fall.

It doesn't matter what he says.

The people vote them in to do one thing, and they cannot do it.

[Jacobin]

19. Well, in the interest of accuracy, the republics are mostly united

and they are falling like a ton of bricks....just not quickly enough

[The Stranger]

26. After 6 years -- 12 years? They stood that long on utter lies?

Unity served them very, very well.

[Zhade]

23. "need to get it right this time." - what BULLSHIT! They didn't ask us to invade, asshole!

Such racist White Man's Burden CRAP!

[MasonJar]

25. And Mitch is such a rep of the people of Ky. A majority of Kentuckians

polled want Mitch to oppose the surge. Maybe we can finally get rid of him in '08. No such luck, I am afraid. But his current arrogant stand does not sit well in Kentucky.