Her Thighness, Hillary Rotten Clinton, John the haircut Edwards and Barak Obama all said tonight that they didn't know when they could get the troops out of Iraq not even by 2013 the end of their first term if elected. Now the Democrats got control of congress in 2006 on the "get out of Iraq" platform. We of course are still in Iraq and the Democratic led Congress is the most unpopular in history I think their approval is down to 11% now. Quite frankly they lied to the American people, they knew they couldn't force the President to abandon his policy. They have been impotent in dealing with Bush who they claim is dumber than a box of rocks or whatever yet they can't come up with a strategy to put him a box where they have the edge. Now they are going to have to vote on a bill to continue funding the War, it'll likely be another beat down on the democrats as politically they can't be seen as denying the troops many of the things that are in the bill that are needed for the safety of the troops. If they don't vote for it, the republicans will be able to point fingers at them for not supporting the troops. What next the democrats will back down on their vow to raise the taxes on the rich? Not deliver on their promise to rein in the Oil companies...oh wait they already failed to do that.
The problem with the Democrats, and has been for a long time, is that they have no workable agenda. They are only comfortable sitting on the outside looking in and complaining about everything. They are great back seat drivers but, when given a chance to drive, usually find they have an empty tank. This current Congress is sad testimony to that.
Exhibit A HANOVER, N.H. - Sen. Hillary Clinton scored with a Democratic audience last night by contradicting her husband's belief that a terrorist could be tortured to foil an imminent plot - but what observers didn't know is she was contradicting herself, too. "It cannot be American policy, period," Clinton (D-N.Y.) told debate moderator Tim Russert, who asked if there should be a presidential exemption to allow the torture of a terror chieftain if authorities knew a bomb was about to go off, but didn't know where it was. When Russert revealed ex-President Bill Clinton advocated such a policy on a recent NBC "Meet the Press" appearance, Hillary Clinton won huge applause from the Dartmouth College audience with a deadpan comeback: "Well, I'll talk to him later." She may have to give herself that talk, too. Last October, Clinton told the Daily News: "If we're going to bepreparing for the kind of improbable but possible eventuality, then it has to be done within the rule of law." She said then the "ticking time bomb" scenario represents a narrow exception to her opposition to torture as morally wrong, ineffective and dangerous to American soldiers. "In the event we were ever confronted with having to interrogate a detainee with knowledge of an imminent threat to millions of Americans, then the decision to depart from standard international practices must be made by the President, and the President must be held accountable," she said. Clinton's campaign did not immediately respond to numerous requests for comment on the eye-popping contradiction.
Hillary has had so many Botox treatments that everything just bounces right off her rubberhead. Edwards is getting away cheap with his $ 400 haircuts.
Botox aside <t>I watched an interview last night with a biographer of George Bush on public TV last night. He was rather even handed in his treatment of Bush, both in support and in criticism.<br/> <br/> Where he lost me was that Bush ran on a platform of cooperation between Democrats and Republicans, but was anything but the great cooperator. I thought that was disingenuous at best. To assume that hypothesis to be true, you would have to assume that there was cooperation or any sort of out-reach from Democrats at any point in time in his tenure as President. That simply is not true. They have dug in from the 'disputed election' right on down the line. While some may have voted with him when it came time to put pen to paper, they opposed him the entire way in the media and from the floors of the Senate and House.<br/> <br/> Sorry, mildly off-topic...but I think it points towards the greater strategy. Partisan politics is out of hand...and the harder the Dems push, the more the Repubs gain come election day</t>
When Bush defeated Gore the Democrats made a weak pledge to work with him. When Bush defeated Kerry they swore they would spend his second term on investigations. They've kept their word; they have found nothing, done nothing, accomplished nothing but the do take a lot of breaks.
Here is ashameless attempt to buy votes... Didn't George McGovern try this in 1972? I think his bribe was $2000 per citizen... classic dem politics. WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that every child born in the United States should get a $5,000 "baby bond" from the government to help pay for future costs of college or buying a home. Clinton, her party's front-runner in the 2008 race, made the suggestion during a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus. "I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home," she said. The New York senator did not offer any estimate of the total cost of such a program or how she would pay for it. Approximately 4 million babies are born each year in the United States. Clinton said such an account program would help people get back to the tradition of savings that she remembers as a child, and has become harder to accomplish in the face of rising college and housing costs. One way of building a stronger economy, she said, is "more savings, starting with the so-called baby bonds idea where every person born in this country would be given that kind of account because we want to make an investment in America's young people." She argued that wealthy people "get to have all kinds of tax incentives to save, but most people can't afford to do that." The proposal was met with enthusiastic applause at an event aimed to encourage young people to excel and engage in politics. "I think it's a wonderful idea," said Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, an Ohio Democrat who attended the event and has already endorsed Clinton. "Every child born in the United States today owes $27,000 on the national debt, why not let them come get $5,000 to grow until their 18?" Blake Zeff, a spokesman for the senator's campaign, said a baby bonds program "is not a firm policy proposal but an idea under consideration." Britain launched a similar program in January 2005, handing out vouchers worth hundreds of dollars each to parents with children born after Sept. 1, 2002. Earlier this month, Time magazine proposed a $5,000 baby bond program.
soooooooo <t>savings accounts for retirement and health insurance are bad, but a $5k election bonus for 'college or a house payment' is good?<br/> <br/> fook me.</t>