BWAHAHAH!! ONLY 12 REPUBLICAN SENATORS SUPPORT ESCALATING IRAQ WAR!

[Dems Will Win]

From Novakula himself, who is good at counting GOP noses:

President Bush and McCain, the front-runner for the party's 2008 presidential nomination, will have trouble finding support from more than 12 of the 49 Republican senators when pressing for a surge of 30,000 troops. "It's Alice in Wonderland," Sen. Chuck Hagel, second-ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, told me in describing the proposal. "I'm absolutely opposed to sending any more troops to Iraq. It is folly."

What to do about Iraq poses not only a national policy crisis but profound political problems for the Republican Party. Disenchantment with George W. Bush within the GOP runs deep. Republican leaders around the country, anticipating that the 2006 election disaster would prompt an orderly disengagement from Iraq, are shocked that the president now appears ready to add troops.

The recent McCain congressional delegation was composed of sophisticated lawmakers who have made many previous visits to Iraq. They do not minimize the severity of sectarian civil war. They left their meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki doubting any "sense of urgency" after advising him that he must disarm the militias. They recognize that the national police, corrupt and riddled with radicals, constitutes an unmitigated disaster.

McCain has long called for more troops in Iraq. He was supported within the delegation by his ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the only Democrat on the delegation (though he now calls himself an "Independent Democrat" after losing the Democratic nomination in Connecticut and being elected with Republican votes). But Sen. John Thune (S.D.) calls his support for the surge "conditional." Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) returned from Baghdad opposing more troops. Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois, the only House member on the trip, is described as skeptical.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/31/AR2006123100931.html

BWAHAHAHAAAAHAHAAA!

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[durtee librul]

1. yes but you forget

* is the 'decider' and will do what the hell he pleases regardless of congress....just watch and see what happens. Should be his first meltdown....first of many I hope, but he's deluded and will think nay votes are actually aye votes and will go ahead anyway.

[Dems Will Win]

4. The Congress can not fund the escalation

But Bushco can just print dollars now without anyone counting them, as they stopped reporting the M-3 Money Supply figure.

They are already laundering 2 billion dollars a day to pay the interest on the national debt.

[Independent_Liberal]

7. Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[beltanefauve]

40. Glad you're calling it

what it is: an escalation and not a "surge". More marketing from the Dark Side.

[SoCalDem]

2. The Dopey Dozen.. how perfect..

:)

[saigon68]

6. And one AssClown Joementum Limpmann

He loves The War so much he will send your child to die for his Handlers

[Dems Will Win]

11. That makes Lucky 13!

[Critters2]

21. Great picture! Worth a thousand words. nt

[Tom Joad]

24. This photo and the one in socaldem's post look so similar its creepy. eom

[Jim Sagle]

25. It's not the war he loves, it's the stench of w's ass.

[saigon68]

35. He is known as Sphincter boy

[Dems Will Win]

17. kitty!

[Karenca]

3. Good news! K and R!!! . eom

[Independent_Liberal]

5. Hmmm.... You know what?

No, I won't even say it. I think this speaks for itself.

:)

BTW,

Who are these dopey dozen?

[Dems Will Win]

9. Novak doesn't say

The ones not running in 2008 are probably more likely to be in the Dopey Dozen...

[speedoo]

13. Who are they? Some are fairly predictable...

Yes: Bunning, Bond, Imhofe, Dole, all the other southern assholes from Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and South Carolina, the two Texas assholes, McCain, Kyl, Stevens. That should get you to more than a dozen. Within this group, there are 4 or 5 who are waffling, but it's hard to say who they are.

If it really is only a dozen, impeachment is looking more and more possible, as you would have about 85 senators opposing Bush's war.

[melissinha]

44. the two Texas assholes: Hutchison and Cornyn

surprise, surprise !!!

whores

[BeFree]

8. Keep your eye on Hagel

He used to own ES&S the voting machine company, and he's thinking about being selected as president- 2008.

If he can make McClain look the warmonger he is, that's one less in the field.

[The Count]

10. Too bad it's not up to them. The decider spoketh...(or will), and more will die

[Dems Will Win]

12. Count this: 11 Republicans, 12 Republicans!

[Dems Will Win]

14. And 1 Democrat!

[Disturbed]

16. I have a feeling that Hagal will get the Repug Nomination.

He will be difficult to beat.

[SoCalDem]

18. Good ole Mr. E S & S, himself

he's a clever one .

Before he ran for office, he was part of that company, and whjat a co-ink-ee-dink..the obscure "nobody" guy won the lection...using the voting machines from his company ..

gee-whiz !! what 'r the odds of that happening :)


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/comments/display?contentID=AR2006112801382

[OKNancy]

42. You really believe that?

I'm surprised.
Ask anyone from Nebraska what they think about politics of that state or Hagel's first win. It was no fluke or a "co-ink-ee-dink".

[Robbien]

22. Joementum is a member of the Connecticutt for Lieberman party

He is not a Democratic Senator

[otherlander]

39. Hmmm....

Belonging to a party named after yourself. Doesn't that just say it all? :eyes:

[valerief]

23. Who's the dem? I don't know of any. nt

[MiniMe]

29. Lieberman of course. The DINO. I wonder if he will change back to a 'D'

or remain an independent after they get sworn in this week.

[valerief]

32. He's not a democrat. nt

[MiniMe]

46. He is until he is sworn in as an independent

Minor point since he is a DINO. Peace

[lonestarnot]

15. Bagdad Bobs number 12.

[Danger Mouse]

19. Heh, looks like Bush is having trouble...

with his toadies. I guess November 2006 has got those who have to run in 08 running scared.

[Dems Will Win]

20. kick

[Dems Will Win]

26. kick

[jazzjunkysue]

27. Happy New Lame Duck Year! Wooo Hoooo!!!!! n/t.

[Imagevision]

28. Bush the war president? - like saying my 9 year old is calling the shots around here...

Shrub is the worst person in the US. to be deciding what's best for this country, he only knows what's best for, Oil, drug companies and defense contractors.

Blood for Oil, that's the deal!

[radfringe]

30. only 12? Number supporting bush is not relevant

even if the only ones supporting bush's escalation plans were Laura and Barney - bush would interpret it as a mandate

[Hekate]

31. But will they stop him from bombing Iran? He wants to do it...

... will they stop him? can they?

Hekate

[curiousdemo]

33. Some repuke are smart....

enough to know, "Why should i lose my Job in 2008" for a loser. Sulfur-in-Chief is on his on. When you have a mad scientic in the house, someone need to stop him before he instruct his proxy to kill again.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[indepat]

34. The entire Iraqi experience has been folly, or so it could persuasively be argued

[BuyingThyme]

36. "McCain Doctrine"

Edwards terms Iraq surge "McCain doctrine"

By Jim Wolf

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, targeting a potential Republican rival in 2008, dubbed plans for a short-term U.S. troop increase in Iraq "the McCain doctrine," in an interview aired on Sunday.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, considered likely to be a Republican candidate for president, has been "the most prominent spokesperson for this for some time," Edwards said in an early salvo of the 2008 campaign.

(...)

"I actually, myself, believe that this idea of surging troops, escalating the war -- what Senator McCain has been talking about -- what I would call now the McCain doctrine ... (is) dead wrong," said Edwards.

(more)

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2007-01-01T080750Z_01_N31302200_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-POLITICS.xml

Now that's a guy who knows how to get it out there.

[Dems Will Win]

37. Dead Wrong -- I like that

The McCain Doctrine is Dead Wrong - Makes a good Bumpersticker!

[Canuckistanian]

38. Is everybody's mind made up even before debate?

Is that how it works? The Prezeldent makes an asinine statement like, "More troops in Iraq means victory", and the good little ducklings line up behind him?

Are there no pros and cons to be listed, haggled over or explained?

Or is this just a case of "you're against it, so I'm for it, nyahhh"

At least we know how Lieberman will vote.

[nosmokes]

41. that's still twelve too many.

these guys have the same mindset as the japanese soldiers that came out of the caves in the '50s- never admit defeat, even when you've lost, fight on, by god. whatever you do, don't do anything rational.

[Contrary1]

43. Lugar and Specter aren't among the 12

And then we have good old Joe...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

"In a partisan flip, Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democrat turned independent, said he supports an expected recommendation by the White House for more troops in Iraq and argued against dialogue with Syria.

When asked if he could support sending another "20,000 to 30,000" troops, Lieberman said, "I can and I hope it's exactly what President Bush does."

http://www.komotv.com/news/national/5049266.html

[symbolman]

45. And this is why I've been saying that the votes are THERE

For Impeachment, they are scared SHITLESS, and we have them on the ropes, they think the American people are going to shitcan them, so they'll take Bush out to save their own asses, in the end that's what it's all about..

As Hunter S. Thompson said, "Politics is the art of controlling your immediate environment"

[Higans]

47. We the People of the United States will shit can them any way.