Opposition to plan surprises Bush team (But they believe Congress won't have time to stop them)

[Kadie]

Opposition to plan surprises Bush team
But they believe Congress won't have time to stop them

Peter Baker, Michael Abramowitz, Washington Post

Sunday, January 14, 2007


(01-14) 04:00 PST Washington -- The bipartisan opposition to President Bush's troop-increase plan has proved more intense than his advisers had expected and has left them scrambling to find support, but the White House is banking on the assumption that it can execute its "new way forward" in Iraq before Congress can derail it.

The plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq was virtually guaranteed to provoke a furor in Washington, Bush advisers said, but the storm was exacerbated by the slow, leaky way that the White House reached its decision. Aides now harbor no hope of winning over Democrats. Instead, they aim mainly to keep Republicans from abandoning him further.

Bush invited GOP leaders to Camp David this weekend and will argue his case tonight on CBS' "60 Minutes." Vice President Dick Cheney and national security adviser Stephen Hadley will also hit the airwaves today.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/14/MNG1TNIE221.DTL&feed=rss.news

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Sounds more like

Custer's Last Stand.

[radfringe]

9. the difference is

Custer went into battle with his men. Bush just looks at his ranch on "the google"

[bluedog]

12. right Custer DIED with his men

big difference with this chickshit SOB!!

[nolies32fouettes]

2. He'll prove 'the nobel cause' when he sends the twins.

Until then, it's just other family's blood and sacrifice!

[babylonsister]

3. How disgusting. Instead of listening to the opposition voices, this admin

is doing an end run around them? The will of the people means nothing to these assholes. :grr: :grr:

[pdxmom]

4. Now we know why he took so long to present his plan. He was putting

everything in place first so that it was in motion and bound to go forward before Congress could do anything to stop it. That means that all his crap about getting opinions from others was just that...crap. He wasn't listening to anyone. He'd made the decision months ago and was having his minions skulking around, getting everything in place before anyone had a chance to stop him. Another sign, IMO, that he's a madman.

[mrcheerful]

13. And this surprised you in what way? Shrub has always put in action first then informed second.

Remember his mid night talks with republican congress and senate meetings? Remember "wire taps require a court order, then a week later he informs us that not only did the FISA laws not apply to him but he had been wire taping america for quite sometime? What did you expect from the commander in thief? Actually obeying the very documents he swore an oath to up hold? Shrub thinks he is the complete power of the US government and until he is brought to trial for high crimes and treason, he will continue to pull the same shit, do it then ask for congressional approval.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. And Congress should be in session NOW...implementing the Kennedy proposal!

They should have voted on it immediately and stopped these SOBs. The psycho has thrown down the gauntlet and Congress is ignoring it. A non-binding resolution is BULLSHIT. It's nothing but a symbolic move. WTF is that all about? They should have stayed in DC over the weekend and done their freakin' job....stop this escalation.

[PATRICK]

6. Too late for GOP too

They can only rely on the hopeless corruption and impotence of the survivors. Yet Hagel and others have taken advantage, not just the Dems, to create what never existed before- an actual outspoken bloc challenge to Bush and the subsequent 2008 nomination the Bush dynasty has likewise been dithering with. To us it appears pathetic but it is shattering enough.

Speed and intensity, not the hallmarks of a deliberative body with a full schedule, are what is needed to stop this easy command-and-go-on-vacation presidency.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. They basically do not believe in representative government

What a fucking outrage. I'm not convinced that our own party is all that committed to representative government either, but at least they appear to be saying the right things. We will see if they have the courage to cut off funding.

The people spoke last November: get out of Iraq, end the war. The elites appear to have understood that to mean: stay the course, must succeed, we cannot afford to fail.

Now what?

[Mark E. Smith]

8. This Was Nothing But A Stall All Along

The Bushies are doing nothing more than blowing smoke and hoping for a miracle.

[Roland99]

10. Whenever Cheney is pulled out of his coffin and shoved onto talk shows....

you know they are struggling for support.

[Bluerthanblue]

11. Hadley just said this this morning to Stehanopolis... in

response to the quesion of how this would go forward if financial support was shut down by the Congress, he said there was some *unspent money authorized in 2006* that could get the troops over there, and then once they were there, no politican would refuse to support the military in the field=

I couldn't believe he let this slip- I believe this is the hail mary play this administration has been holding onto-


America should be furious-

This isn't about sexual affairs- this is about the blood of 100,000's of thousands of people-

i cannot believe this is being allowed!!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. Tony Snowe said the same thing in his Friday (?) WH press conference.

He told the press it didn't matter if Congress stopped the funding because they already had the funds to move the troops in.:grr:

[Bluerthanblue]

17. I heard him say that, but never put

it together the way Hadley did- duh....- (no brain trust here- but I'm probably representitive of the average american)

Once they are there, who would vote not to support them? Betrayal at its best-

;(


i hate this

[mrcheerful]

16. Remember though, most of those 100,000's were either poor or brown skinned so its ok

that they died, they won't be around to over throw the WASP's.

[acmavm]

14. That picture makes him look like the soulless, empty, petty, spiteful,

selfish, amoral thug that he really is.