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Filed Under: Author: Gary Gross, Election 2008, Feinstein, Iraq, Military, Subversives, W
John McCain’s had enough of the intellectual dishonesty and he’s speaking out about it, according to this AP article:
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee sought to weaken support for a resolution opposing President Bush’s Iraq war strategy, saying Sunday that proponents are intellectually dishonest.
On the eve before a possible congressional showdown on Iraq strategy, Arizona Sen. John McCain contended the bipartisan proposal amounted to a demoralizing “vote of no confidence” in the U.S. military. The measure, he said, criticizes Bush’s plan to add 21,500 troops in Iraq yet offers no concrete alternatives.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate to say that you disapprove of a mission and you don’t want to fund it and you don’t want it to go, but yet you don’t take the action necessary to prevent it,” said McCain, a 2008 presidential candidate.
Bravo, John McCain. He’s right in saying that these non-binding resolutions are the equivalent of a no confidence vote. The Biden-Hagel-Warner resolution is proof that any idiot can criticize a plan. The McCain-Lieberman-Cornyn plan doesn’t give the President’s handling of the war a free pass but it’s pro-victory, which is the most important thing in any Iraq War policy.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), called GOP efforts to block a vote on the resolution “obstructionism.” Neither a Senate majority nor voters, she said, will tolerate such a delaying tactic.
“If we can’t get this done, you can be sure a month or so down the pike, there’s going to be much stronger legislation,” she said.
Other than Sen. Feingold, Senate Democrats won’t challenge the President with anything more than resolutions. They know that their anti-war views don’t have majority support. They know that being openly anti-victory is political suicide. They don’t dare cutting off funds to the troops because the American people would understand that Democrats don’t care about defeating the terrorists.
Sen. Feinstein’s statements are meant to sound tough without having real teeth to them. She knows that they won’t get GOP support. That means that we’d simply be right back there complaining about another GOP filibuster. Republican senators know that abandoning a pro-victory position will get them defeated the next time they’re up for re-election. They know that because the activists won’t show up and work hard on their re-election campaigns.
“I do believe that if you really believe that this is doomed to failure and is going to cost American lives, then you should do what’s necessary to prevent it from happening rather than a vote of ‘disapproval,’” McCain said. “This is a vote of no confidence in both the mission and the troops who are going over there,” he said, noting the proposal does not seek to cut off money for troops.
Democrats can’t argue that logic. In fact, they’ve avoided using logic throughout this debate. They won’t propose cutting off funding of the troops because they know that they’d be political roadkill. That’s why they’ve proposed these non-binding resolutions. They can be critical of the President without making a real policy statement.
That’s hardly a profile in courage.
He called McCain’s proposal meaningless because it offers benchmarks but does not spell out what the U.S. government will do if the Iraqi officials fail to meet them.
“What are the consequences? Are we then going to pull out?” Hagel asked. “Are we going to cut funding? Now, that falls more in the intellectually dishonest category.”
Sen. Hagel has been critical of the war almost from Day One. He’s whined about what went wrong without offering anything resembling a solution. In my opinion, Sen. Hagel is this year’s Lincoln Chafee: the guy we should seek to defeat in the primaries.
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“Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), called GOP efforts to block a vote on the resolution ‘obstructionism.’”
So, if it’s ‘obstructionism’ when you block a non-binding, useless resolution, then what is it when you block several well-qualified judicial candidates from receiving a vote?
Comment by The Gentle Cricket — February 4, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
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