Told You Just a Show.

Hey folks,

Happy Thursday to you. This is one of those, I told you so, moments. I told you this was just a show. No matter who you listed to slash read, you pretty much got the same story. With ONE exception. As usual, the New York Times. This is too funny folks.

The pizza (for the senators) had been delivered. The cots had been dusted off for weary lawmakers. And the sergeant-at-arms was standing by, ready to fetch any senator who did not arrive in the chamber when the buzzer sounded for a late-night — or early-morning — quorum call.

Do you remember the question I asked? If they we going to be at it all night. Debating, arguing their points, ETC. What are the cots for? Anyway.

It was the first round-the-clock Senate debate since 2003, when Republicans sought to break a Democratic filibuster over appointing federal judges. This time, it was the Democratic leaders challenging Republicans for threatening to filibuster legislation calling for troops to begin leaving Iraq in 120 days.

Now GET THIS!

As midnight approached, the crowds began to grow, filling the visitor’s gallery above the Senate floor and forming a long line outside the chamber. Ordinary citizens watched, seemingly spellbound, as Republicans accused Democrats of staging a political show to dramatize opposition to the war. Even as Democrats brushed aside such suggestions, the party’s Congressional leaders and many lawmakers took a break from the debate to join a few hundred war protesters at a candlelight vigil outside the Capitol.

{Laughing hard banging hand on desk} Read that again. “As midnight approached, the crowds began to grow, filling the visitor’s gallery above the Senate floor and forming a long line outside the chamber. Ordinary citizens watched, seemingly spellbound”

There were SIX people there. 6 {For those who need further help in understanding.} NOTE: These are NOT the actual six people, the photo is to illustrate that six people do not make a crowd. According to CNN


With a half-dozen spectators watching from the gallery, Republicans Collins and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota were among those speaking during the long night, joined by Democrats Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Jim Webb of Virginia. McCain finished his speech around 4:10 a.m. He was followed by White House hopeful Hillary Clinton, D-New York.

But you know, the NYT has to carry the water for the LWL. They are OWNED by the LWL. Then they did not even STAY there all night. Some WENT HOME.

Also from CNN, as Rush pointed out today on his show.

CNN's newsroom this morning, Tony Harris was talking to congressional correspondent Dana Bash, and he said, "Dan-a what happened while most Americans were getting their sleep last night?" And Bash is showing video of the cots that were brought in for the senators, and then says this.

BASH: You see a little bit of evidence that perhaps somebody was there. Where... We understand that freshman Senator Bob Casey was there, but look at the rest. Not slept in. There's probably, uh... Part of the reason for that is that most senators, Tony, actually went home. The Senate majority leader had threatened, eh, that he was going to hold roll call votes to keep attendance. Roll call votes at two, three, four in the morning, but he didn't do that, in part because he was asked not to by, eh, Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer who said, please, just give us a few hours of sleep, and instead what happened is there was a -- was a vote at about midnight and then not another one until five in the morning as the sun was coming up. That's what we saw (laughs) senators start to shuffle their way back into the Senate.

{Laughing} It was a show folks. Back to the NYT. Look at this quote.

“Some people say Democrats are micromanaging the war,” said Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, speaking on the Senate floor. “Well, hey, someone’s got to manage it, and it’s about time.”

It’s not your job. It’s the Job of the Commander and Chief, and you ain’t it. OK, enough with the NYLies. According to the AP -GOP torpedoes Iraq troop pullout plan By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent.

Senate Republicans torpedoed legislation Wednesday to force the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, bowing to President Bush's adamant refusal to consider any change in war strategy before September.

The 52-47 vote fell far short of the 60 needed to advance the legislation and marked the final act in an all-night session that Democrats engineered to dramatize their opposition to the war.

"Time and the American people are ... on our side," said a defiant Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has made ending the war the Democrats' top goal since they took control of the Senate in January. "We will do everything in our power to change course in Iraq," he said moments after the vote.

WRONG! His top goal is to bow down and kiss the a,,uh,,ring, of the LWL and GET BUSH. As for "We will do everything in our power to change course in Iraq," Then just cut the funding outright. You DO have that power. But then THEY are to blame for anything that happens there, or here, after that. They can’t have that.

Equally unyielding on the other side, Arizona Sen. John McCain said, "As long as there is a prospect for not losing this war, then we must not choose to lose it."

"I do not know how I could choose any other course," said McCain, a Republican presidential contender.

The Senate's action left no doubt that Bush's decision last winter to deploy additional troops to Iraq will have at least two more months to produce results. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Iraq and architect of the president's latest strategy, is to deliver a report to Congress on Sept. 15.

That is what was going to happen. That IS what should happen. Let’s see where we stand at THAT point.

Wednesday's vote unfolded as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited the Capitol for private meetings with lawmakers and the nation's top military officer cautioned that the United States faces decades of fighting in the larger global war on terror.

"We can vote to fight it in one place or another," said Gen. Peter Pace, whose term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is nearing an end.

"But the bottom line is that as long as our enemy is sworn to destroy our way of life, we are going to be in a war," said Pace, addressing troops in Afghanistan.

Absolutely.

Inside the Capitol, senators voted from their seats as they settled the fate of the withdrawal measure, a procedure usually reserved only for the most solemn of occasions.

But the outcome was no different from numerous other contested votes this year on the war, yet another demonstration that Democrats lack the votes to force a change in course without the acquiescence of Senate Republicans — if not the White House.

Wrong. Actually, they LOST votes this time.

Expressions of Republican discontent on Iraq have grown in recent weeks, a trend reinforced by an administration report that showed little progress by Iraqis toward political goals. Even so, only four of the Senate's 49 Republicans, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Gordon Smith of Oregon and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, chose to side with Democrats on their demand for a final vote.

{Sigh} Snowe and Hagel are Republican in name only. Trust me folks, they are not a friend of the Republicans.

One of them, Collins, said she opposed the legislation itself, which she said offered an "abrupt withdrawal date" that could have disastrous consequences.

So she talked trash against the President and the war, then voted against the legislation? Remember that if you live in Maine next time it’s your turn to vote for her.

The article goes on to talk about what the bill was to be. Doesn’t matter, since it failed. But as I told you, and keep telling you, it was all a show. Sen. McConnell said the same thing.

McConnell jabbed at the all-night session that Democrats had choreographed, referring to "all the gags and giggles and gimmicks, the cold pizza and the empty cots."

Wait!! They are not even trying to hind THIS anymore?

Democrats seemed content, having labored overtime to reassure MoveOn.org and other anti-war constituents of their commitment, and having placed Republicans in a position of having to choose between public sentiment on the war and a president of their own party.

I can’t believe what I just read! The AP just told you the truth. The LWL is OWNED by the Looneys. They serve people like Moveon.org, and the others bought and paid for the likes of Soros. Do you really want THEM running this country? They are trying to.

The do nothing Congress, did nothing again but a stunt. They put on a show for the Looneys. That’s it. Plain and simple.
Peter

Sources:
NYT -Metal Cots, Takeout Pizza and a Long Night of Recriminations
CNN -Defense bill pulled after troop drawdawn measure fails
Rush / CNN
AP -GOP torpedoes Iraq troop pullout plan