As we crawl into the afternoon on Wednesday, the question of whether pushing the Republicans into an actual filibuster has brought any results to the floor.
I have always felt that part of a debate/discussion was to be persuasive… to present the facts and show why something should be changed. The Democrats did this pretty well all night. I heard facts presented, weighed, evaluated and a reasonable course of action, ie: Reed-Levin, promoted.
I heard the Republicans (and Joe Lieberman, of course) using attack lines like “cut and run” (not at all a part of Reed-Levin), “total pullout” (also not a part of Reed-Levin”), “cowardice”, “losers” and just about every other slander they could come up with, often acknowledging that the first few years of the war had been mishandled… but so what?
At the end of the run there seem to still be only 3 Republicans behind the amendment… the same as at the start of debate.
What has come out of this is a clear message to majority of the American people who want the troops to be brought home: as long as Bush occupies the white house, Mitch MacConnell and his minions will keep their lips firmly planted on the President’s behind.
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