Hey folks,
AM I missing something here? Am I the only one scratching my head? I stopped in the OPN office last night after seeing a article in the Washington Post. I scanned the news of the day and kept running into the same thing. But here’s what has stupefied. It’s all about NOTHING.
The article I’m talking about is this,
Tens of thousands of peace advocates from across the country are expected in Washington on Saturday for an anti-war rally that could be among the biggest since the war in Iraq began, organizers said yesterday.They said the rally on the Mall, followed by a march near the Capitol, will target President Bush's intention to send more troops to the Iraq war.
The president's policy is "fight, war, occupation, death, destruction, spend our tax dollars," Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, the umbrella group that is one of the main organizers of Saturday's events, said at a media briefing.
Citing what she called "this devastating debacle of lies and horror," Cagan said: "The people of this country have had it. This Saturday, January 27, on the heels of the Bush administration's decision to send another 21,000 U.S. troops into Iraq, hundreds of thousands of people from all across this country will come to this capital city to make it clear."
{Sigh} Tens of thousands? I guess we’ll see. I guarantee you that the MMD will be there. Apparently so will the "stars,"
Among the featured speakers will be Vietnam War-era protester Jane Fonda, according to the organizers. Others include actors Danny Glover, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and Carlos Arredondo, who in 2004 set himself on fire after learning of the death in Iraq of his Marine Corps son, Alexander.
The rally is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at the east end of the Mall, at Third Street and Madison Drive NW, the organizers said. The march is to kick off at 1 p.m.
Same old same old. Stars, {has beens} trying to get some attention. Jesse? WAIT!!! Hold it a second.
Cagan declined yesterday to predict a Saturday turnout. "We learned a long time ago not to put out numbers," she said. "There are many variables, especially in the winter."
If she did not put out the "Tens of thousands of peace advocates from across the country are expected" then WHO did? The Post? The MMD? Notice this also, she is already making excuses just incase in turns out to be a joke of a turnout.
The rest talks about how Fonda has avoided previous protests because she is so important, it would be a distraction. OK. So what did I see while scanning the news? The so called resolution. You know, the non-binding, powerless, pointless, and all around bad resolution?
From the AP,
Sen. John Warner R-Va., former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he won't negotiate with Democrats to develop a single proposal on Iraq. His comments _ along with the emergence of other resolutions the Senate might consider _ underscored how a Congress largely against Bush's proposal to send more troops to Iraq remained divided over what to do about it.Warner's decision bolsters chances that his resolution will be the one to win final Senate approval. Democrats are expected to vote for his proposal if their measure fails, and several Republicans said they prefer Warner's approach because it is less divisive.
Seems that he even wrote a letter to Sen. Joseph Biden that said,
Any agreement on the two resolutions "should occur as a consequence of the will of the Senate, working in 'open' session," Warner wrote in a letter to Biden and other co-sponsors of the Democratic-driven resolution.
So what does this all mean. Why does it matter the there are TWO different resolutions?
His decision to avoid bargaining also decreases the odds that a single resolution would emerge that would garner a strong, bipartisan vote reproaching Bush's plan, which the White House hopes to avoid.
NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN! The LWL cannot get along with each other. They cannot agree because they ALL want to have the power. I’ve been telling you this. Now you are seeing it come to pass. Not to mention NON-BINDING.
I told you back on August 9, 2006
"Trust me folks, when you have unlimited funds to get your message out, no matter how looney that message is, you will get some believing it. But is this a sign to come? I do not think so. But if the LWL take over in November, I guarantee that nothing will get done, except making the President’s life miserable for two years, cut, surrender and run, and more taxes. They STILL have no agenda."
Remember how happy they {The House} were about passing the increase in the minium wage? Just recently Reed said he would not have anything to do with it unless it included tax cuts for small business. The House will not go for that, so again, NOTHING.
Back to this resolution. CNN says
"There is a legitimate concern about the lack of congressional oversight, about sending Gen. [David] Petraeus there saying we don't approve of his mission," he said. Bush has nominated Petraeus to be the new commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq."One of the areas we really want to work on is setting some benchmarks, so the American people and Congress will know if we're making progress or not," McCain said.
Yes. General Petraeus testified it will give hope to the enemy and demoralize the troops if this resolution is passed.
Two groups of senators have proposed nonbinding resolutions of opposition to President Bush's plan to send another 21,500 troops to Iraq. Three other Democratic senators have proposed bills that would cap the number of U.S. troops there. {Watch senators clash over competing proposals}
This is just simply a lot to do about nothing. Nothing is getting done. The President does not have to listen to these idiots. He is, I know they hate this but, HE is the Commander and Chief. The only thing that they could actually do, is de-fund the war. But that would be political suicide. They would not longer be able to attempt to deceive you about "supporting the troops." They will NOT do anything like this. They will just continue to give the President a hard time in the hope that we cut and run, translation, lose.With this, and all these investigations they are doing, and are planning on, NOTHING is going to get done in this country for the next two years. I warned you about that. The President said that the White House will cooperate fully with all these investigations. Of course. He will allow them to play for the next two years, while he continues to do what he feels is necessary to protect this country and win the war.
Peter
Sources:
Washington Post-Large Rally Planned Saturday on Mall
AP-No compromise seen on Iraq resolutions
CNN-McCain says he'll propose benchmarks for Iraq
Reuters- White House will cooperate with investigations
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