"Ours is now the mainstream position" - Democrats feel free to defy Bush on Iraq (LAT)

[kpete]

"Ours is now the mainstream position," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma)

Democrats feel free to defy Bush on Iraq
Once-skittish party leaders are joining antiwar liberals in opposing a buildup.
By Noam N. Levey, Times Staff Writer
January 14, 2007

WASHINGTON — Emboldened by President Bush's deeply unpopular proposal to send more troops to Iraq, congressional Democrats are shedding their wariness about tackling the war and embracing positions once primarily held by the party's most liberal fringe.

Less than two weeks after taking power, party leaders who had promised just an increase in oversight hearings on the war are now talking openly about cutting off funds for additional military operations.

Centrist Democrats are lining up beside longtime antiwar liberals, promising to do everything in their power to stop the president's plans to deploy an additional 21,500 troops in Baghdad and Al Anbar province.

And the war's most passionate opponents in the House, whose last meeting before the midterm election was relegated to a basement room, met last week in one of the grandest rooms on Capitol Hill and drew scores of supporters, television cameras and journalists.


more at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dems14jan14,0,3600186.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[babylonsister]

1. So defy already! Do it in a concerted effort to get this poor, dangerous excuse

for a prez expelled, impeached, gone!

[MzNov]

2. it's been so long in coming that we still don't realize it's here! nt

[monmouth]

3. If you could impeach over a break-in, why is it so damn difficult to get the

friggin ball rolling on impeaching these evil doers. I mean, really??? A break-in vs. the killing of thousands of American and Iraqi people? What am I missing here???

[mdmc]

4. I think that the military corporations are still supporting the war

doubt much will change until the CEO's want us out.