Via the NYT: Bush and Congress Easing Tone of Debate on War Bill
While warning Congress not to test his will by sending him another bill that includes a withdrawal date, President Bush said: “I invite the leaders of the House and the Senate, both parties, to come down, you know, soon after my veto so we can discuss a way forward.” He later issued an official invitation for Congressional leaders to meet at the White House on Wednesday.The boldness of Senate Democrats has only seemed to swell as the war debate has worn on. Yesterday, they said they remained committed to carrying out what they believed to be the will of the American people to change direction in Iraq. But, like Mr. Bush, they also indicated a readiness to negotiate.
“We are legislators,” said Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader, speaking to reporters in New York where members of his party gathered yesterday for their annual policy retreat. “We understand legislation is the art of compromise, consensus building. We are willing to sit down and talk with the president, but we have certain things we believe to be important to the country. I’m sure he does too.”
In other words: both sides will have made their points (Congress by passing the legislation and the President by vetoing it) so now they can get down to business. This proves that all of the hang-wringing and/or fist pumping over this round by various politicos and commentators were just part of the drama rather than indicators of what the outcome of the process will be.
The real question remains as to what a compromise will look like–whatever it is it will allow both sides to claim a victory while leaving the hardcore true believers (the Get Out of Iraq Now caucus or the The President Has All the Foreign Policy Power No Matter What caucus) being frustrating by the the results.
However, that’s democracy.
h/t: Chris Lawrence.
April 28th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
George Bush is one foolish President. He wants to allow all these criminal mexicans to remain in America, and allow more everyday that goes by. George Bush, and that no good rotten Teddy Kennedy are some of America’s major problems. These leaders are evil wicked men who try to promote that big democracy lie, when in fact, America is a Constitutional Republic. Also Bush and a few other evil men keep meddling in Russia’s internal affairs, and one day it is going to come back and bite them right on their no good lying behinds. The truth is, America is not a democracy, and those evil wicked leaders need to stop trying to push that lie on the rest of the world. All America’s leaders are theives, liars, and one day soon they are going to get their behinds kicked good and proper. Check this truth out, then send your comment to SouthernGent0007@aol.com
The TRUTH about Democracy.
Winston Churchill said many years ago, that democracy is the least bad of all of the systems of government produced out of human experience.
Winston Churchill is also quoted as having once said: “Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.” Just as a bell that has been rung cannot be “unrung”, the annoying problem with the Truth is that, once you learn it, you can not “unlearn” it.
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Democracy, which has become the Cure-all Mantra, quoted incessantly by all western politicians, is a LIE and a confidence-trick, that they and their puppet-masters are now trying to deceive the rest of the world with, and are using their economic and/or military-muscle and means to force other nations to adopt, so that their puppet-masters can use the politicians to help them to rip-off all the other nations too, just as they have done already to the vast majority of their own citizens.
It is very simple to see that democracy is a lie and a confidence-trick. All you have to do is analyse what it is supposed to be and then compare that definition to the reality.
Democracy is supposed to be the rule of the majority. Government of the majority of the people, for the majority of the people, by the majority of the people.
Let us now compare the smooth deceptive definition, to stark reality.
In the western world approximately 95% of the wealth is possessed by approximately 5% of the people. That means, using these same figures, that 95% of the people, the overwhelming majority, possess only 5% of the wealth.
The politicians would have us all believe that this is the will of the majority. That is the politician’s idea of what they call democracy.
When did the 95% of people, the overwhelming majority, ever vote for the right for themselves to be poor and vote for the tiny 5% minority to possess their own (the poor people’s) share of the nation’s wealth, that the poor majority’s ancestors have fought and died to protect?
The Ruler of the Universe has prohibited democracy because He knew that the rich would use it and other means to deceive and rip everyone else off; keep the majority down and poor; just as He wrote, via His Prophets in The Bible.
He gave the world, via Moses, the perfect system of government, under which there is no poverty; no poor people and consequently no need to resort to crime to survive.
He prohibited the writing of laws and economic policies by humans, in order to protect the majority from abuse, and oppression created under the home-made laws of the rich and powerful.
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April 29th, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Psychologically each side had to demonstrate their points in a manner besides pure rhetoric. That way their supporters could see they weren’t giving into the other side. Imagine the netroots had the Democrats begun compromising more quickly. Kos and the gang would have gone nut–or I should say nuttier. On the Right Ann Coulter would have talked about Bush’s lack of testosterone. Brinkmanship is occasionally useful to see how far your opponents are willing to go and to position yourself for the inevitable compromise.