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Check out this transcript if you want to see Harry Reid’s and Nancy Pelosi’s latest mindless diatribe. Here’s the first example of their idiocy:

A bipartisan majority of Congress sent the president a bill to fully fund our troops and change the mission in Iraq. The president refused to sign this bill. That’s his right, but now he has an obligation to explain his plan to responsibly end this war.

This is really stretching the imagination. Two Republican senators voted with Senate Democrats in passing the bill. It’s amazing how Harry Reid defines bipartisan. The truth is that he wishes it had bipartisan support. Now, Democrats have to defend their voting for defeat.

As for President Bush explaining “his plan to responsibly end this war”, I hope Sen. Reid isn’t serious about expecting that explanation because President Bush doesn’t believe in defeat. There’s more than enough defeatists in the Democratic Party. We don’t need any Republican defeatists.

In the coming days, we’ll continue to reach out to the president, and we hope congressional Republicans who remained silent, congressional Republicans through this whole debate, will work with us as well.

But if the president thinks that by vetoing this bill he’ll stop us from working to change the direction of the war in Iraq, he is mistaken.

Sen. Reid’s bluster notwithstanding, defeatist Democrats have already signaled that they’re about to fold like a cheap suit. This fight is over except for a few daily soundbites.

Now let’s direct our attention to Ms. Pelosi’s mindless drivel:

Earlier today the leader and I sent to the president a bill that made a strong commitment to support our men and women in uniform and a strong commitment to honor our promises to our veterans.

Funny how Ms. Pelosi didn’t explain how funding defeat supports our military in Iraq. Perhaps that’s too complicated for her. As for their “strong commitment to honor” the promises made by Congress, doesn’t winning the war constitute a commitment? I can’t imagine Ms. Pelosi voted to authorize war in Iraq with America’s defeat as her goal. I can’t picture a more important commitment to keep. Nor can I think of a better way to honor veterans who’ve fought for Iraq’s freedom.

This is a bill that was worthy of the sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. It was a bill that honored and respected the wishes of the American people to have benchmarks, to have guidelines, to have standards for what is happening in Iraq, again, out of respect for the wishes of the American people.

What Ms. Pelosi really means when she says that this vetoed legislation respects “the wishes of the American people” is that this legislation excites the Insane Left. This legislation has nothing to do with pleasing the American people.

We had hoped that the president would have treated it with the respect that a bipartisan legislation, supported overwhelmingly by the American people, deserved.

TRANSLATION: We’d hoped he’d cave into our demands but he didn’t.

Instead, the president vetoed the bill outright, and, frankly, misrepresented what this legislation does. This bill supports the troops. In fact, it gives the president more than he asked for for our troops, and well they deserve it.

Ms. Pelosi says that President Bush misrepresented what was in the legislation but she doesn’t offer any specifics on what he misrepresented. As for the legislation giving “the president more than he asked for”, I’d sadly agree with her, though much of the “extras” have anything to do with the troops. The extra things have more to do with earmarks to buy votes for her defeatist agenda.

If the president thinks that what is happening on the ground in Iraq now is progress, as he said in his comments tonight, then it is clear to see why we have a disagreement on policy with him.

As I predicted here, Ms. Pelosi would ignore what’s happening in Iraq. Here’s one of the reports:

Anbar Province, long the lawless heartland of the tenacious Sunni Arab resistance, is undergoing a surprising transformation. Violence is ebbing in many areas, shops and schools are reopening, police forces are growing and the insurgency appears to be in retreat. “Many people are challenging the insurgents,” said the governor of Anbar, Maamoon S. Rahid, though he quickly added, “We know we haven’t eliminated the threat 100 percent.”

Add to that the fact that sectarian violence has dropped by two thirds and it’s impossible for an intellectually honest person to say that progress isn’t being made. That, of course, is Ms. Pelosi’s loophole. She’s anything but intellectually honest.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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