House Dems considering deal with anti-war liberals

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-dems-considering-deal-with-anti-war-liberals-2007-05-07.html


House Dems considering deal with anti-war liberals
By Jonathan E. Kaplan
May 08, 2007


A deal may be in the offing for liberal House Democrats who voted for the two versions of the Iraq war supplemental spending bills that passed.

While House Democratic leaders’ primary aim is to rally the caucus around a single supplemental spending bill, House Democratic leaders are considering offering anti-war liberals an opportunity to vote on a measure that would set a withdrawal date, in exchange for support on a compromise bill that likely would not include a fixed withdrawal date, Democratic aides said.

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The politics of Iraq, however, did not stop for the pomp and circumstance of the queen’s visit. On the Senate floor yesterday, Reid pounced on remarks made by Boehner, who said Sunday that Bush “risks defections in the fall if the war situation hasn’t improved.”

Reid added that it is “revealing, and somewhat disturbing … that the Republican leader is willing to allow our troops to stay in Iraq with a failing strategy until he and his colleagues decide it is time to part with the president.”

Anti-war groups sought to increase pressure on congressional leaders, encouraging them to take a tougher stance with Bush. A group of 20 peace organizations urged Pelosi and Reid to send Bush a “bill to fund only the safe, orderly and complete withdrawal of all U.S. troops … within six months.”

Some of the peace groups are organizing a summer “Swarm on Congress” to put more public pressure on lawmakers to end the war.

[MADem]

1. Well, I hope they swarm the damned GOP for a change, instead of going after

guys like Dave Obey.

[Kagemusha]

5. All the good it's doing Obey.

Harry Reid had a spokesman say that the bill Obey wants is DOA in the Senate and he's wasting his time pushing it any further.

[rodeodance]

2. oh HARRY---------ouch!

[rodeodance]

3. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faces.... passing a measure with...equal numbers of Dems & Repugs

For the first time in her tenure as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faces the prospect of passing a measure with nearly equal numbers of Democratic and Republican votes. Her predecessor, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), made it a practice not to pass bills that the majority of the Republican conference did not support.

Democratic leaders hope to bring a revised war supplemental spending bill to the House floor by late Thursday evening or Friday, according to Democratic aides. Leadership’s goal is to send President Bush a bill by Memorial Day.

[TygrBright]

4. This headline encapsulates the problem.

Until "House Dems" and "anti-war Liberals" are one and the same, we're NOT DONE HERE.

determinedly,
Bright

[mike_c]

6. exactly!

Piss on the complicit.

[orwell]

7. Liberals?

I guess a significant majority of the US populace is "liberal" because they oppose the occupation.

What a canard. Peace isn't liberal or conservative.

The Iraqis don't wan't us there so we should leave.

It's not rocket science.