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And I'm not inclined to hold it against them, one way or another. It will pass with or without them, but those candidates who are looking beyond the primaries to the general will probably feel compelled not to have a no vote on their record for the media and Repubicans to kick around. We all know the endless commentary and ads that will be devoted to this: I can hear them licking their chops already.
At this point, I don't think a no vote to this bill helps stop the war at all, so why even belabor this vote? It's Bush's war, and there really isn't a whole lot the Democrats can really do to stop him, not even with their bully pulpit and the American people behind them: this administration is dead set to continue this thing, just as they were dead set to start it. They just have to keep thinking of new ways ....
Only one scenario would make me think the main candidates could vote against the bill: and that is if every single Democratic senator and house member stood together and voted against it. I'd really like to see that happen, but I'm realistic enough to know we have the Max Baucuses and Mary Landrieus and Mark Pryors around.
What we're really mad at is that Bush is intransigent and insane. Any normal president would have cut a deal of some sort ... this one is startk-raving bodaciously power hungry, and that is not a situation you can have a lot of control over.
It's all very sad.
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