Democrats Newly Willing to Compromise on Iraq

[cal04]

With a mixed picture emerging about progress in Iraq, Senate Democratic leaders are showing a new openness to compromise as they try to attract Republican support for forcing at least modest troop withdrawals in the coming months.

After short-circuiting consideration of votes on some bipartisan proposals on Iraq before the August break, senior Democrats now say they are willing to rethink their push to establish a withdrawal deadline of next spring if doing so will attract the 60 Senate votes needed to prevail.

Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, said, “If we have to make the spring part a goal, rather than something that is binding, and if that is able to produce some additional votes to get us over the filibuster, my own inclination would be to consider that.”

Democrats would need to lure the 60 senators in order to cut off a likely Republican filibuster.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/washington/06cong.html?hp

[annabanana]

1. Goddam it...

This is meaningless

[Disturbed]

3. Dems are on their way to lose in '08.

I feel that Dems are self destructive.

They are losing respect from their own base & Independents. Dems are delusional in that they think that they can bow down to the Repugs and not lose millions of Dem & Indie voters. If Dems fork over another $50 Billion for the Iraq Fiasco, all Progressives should bail & join the Green Party. How many Progressives still in the Dem party are there in the USA? Ball park figure?

[spanone]

2. fall turns into winter into spring into summer into fall and it's the democrats war

have at it boys & girls

[msongs]

4. dems to Bush -"we will give you anything you want just don't hurt us"? nt

[bbgrunt]

5. every time Levin opens his mouth I cringe.

[w8liftinglady]

6. Didn't they get a clue in 2006?

[Breeze54]

7. Nothing will happen until the Dems have a SOLID majority!!

All the rest is fluff.

We still need to clean the house and senate more in '08!!

We didn't finish the job in '06. We all still have a lot of work to do!

[wellst0nev0ter]

8. Great, Still Triangulating Themselves Into A Position Where Nobody Likes Them

who the hell elected these Bush Dog Democrats, ferchrissakes?

[AndyTiedye]

9. I Thought The Funding RAN OUT This Month

Can't they just vote it down?

What's Bush** gonna do? Have them all shot?

Oh.