Clutching at straws

Trying to get out before the President has a chance to talk, Democrats are scurrying towards any venue that will have them. Dick Durbin begs the KosKids to give him an agenda since the Democrats don’t appear to have one past the first 100 hours. He gives them a series of drop down boxes so they don’t have to type all that much (we already know that the KosKids are allergic to the Shift key).

Ted Kennedy gives a perverted lesson in what he thinks the Constitution says to those same KosKids. He claims that “people elected Democrats to show some backbone”. Apparently backbone means to cut-and-run in Massachusetts.

And the Kos Kids respond in kind;

This country has faced no graver threat than the one posed by the rogue sociopath currently occupying the Oval Office.  Thousands of lives stand to be lost if no one curbs this president from his intended path, and we thank you — as patriots to patriots — for taking this stand.

There’s no doubt in my mind that Bush and his henchmen are trying to provoke a Constitutional crisis — I hope you and your fellow Democrats in the Senate –and any Republican  who may choose to ally with you — are prepared to do whatever it takes to win if that is what it comes down to.

Way to show some backbone, ya smelly hippie freak.

In the meantime, the rest of the Democrats are backpedaling away from Kennedy’s rant at the National Press Club yesterday according to the Washington Times.

House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland also cast doubt on the proposal. The Constitution’s Article II, he said, “probably does” give the president authority to prosecute a war.

Showing his own version of “backbone”;

Mr. Kennedy’s proposal, Mr. Reid said, “is an idea, and we’ll certainly look at it in an intelligent way.”

But then there the axis of cowards;

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, and Mr. Reed will hold a press conference today with retired Gen. Wesley Clark, to call on the president “to end our open-ended commitment in Iraq.”
    But not even Mr. Kennedy’s proposal, however, goes far enough to please hard-line war opponents.
    Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio on Monday called for Mr. Bush to withdraw all troops from Iraq and close all military bases there.
    “A U.S. declaration of an intention to withdraw troops and close bases will help dampen the insurgency which has been inspired to resist colonization and fight invaders,” he said in his announcement.

Now the New York Times reports that Democrats will hold votes on the President’s proposal as early as next week. Hours before the President even makes his proposal. The Times claims that Democrats want to isolate the President and make this “his” war. Right out of Teddy Kennedy’s speech yesterday. That’s fine, they can do that. But what about those supposed Blue Dog Democrats that ran as conservatives and claimed that their first priority would be national defense. Can Pelosi and Reid hold them together? And will the people who voted for them stand for it?

Makes you wonder how Americans elected these clowns doesn’t it?

Hat tip to Sister Toldya.

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