Rubber stamp republicans cower to bush on Iraq vote.

[pwb]

To me that is the story for us to debate. the repukes are scared to death of this chickenhawk administration. This is not loyalty, it is fear
They are not ashamed to be openly fearful.
Get out from under your bed republican party.
Blame the neocon republicans for encouraging their war, not the dems for trying to stop it.
Stop following the neocon spin for once and make your own feelings known.

Sorry, i just read too many flame posts about the dems today.

PEACE

[BOSSHOG]

1. Or

I truly believe that republicans in congress and their insane supporters don't care if more nonwhite, nonchristian Iraqi civilians get slaughtered. And four years later the prolifers don't care if our troops die either.

Per the dems backing down, if they had actually backed down they wouldn't have sent bush the bill they did.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Exactly, that Bill was a big f.u. to Georgie..

and he knows it.

[pwb]

4. i agree boss. the spin is just getting to me.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. That's right, BOSS. They haven't backed down yet. Let's at least

see what the next bill looks like before we accuse them of something they haven't done. They knew that this one was going to be vetoed with no chance to override the veto, and they sent it to him anyway. I think they are backing Bush into a corner where it will appear that he is more interested in getting his way than he is about funding the troops.

[BOSSHOG]

6. At the very least

they are pissing the little coward off. Keep pushing dems; he'll do something stupid which he has been advised will be accepted by the 22% who still thinks his caca doesn't stink.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Amen!! The Democrats don't have enough of a majority to..

stop this thing on their own, regardless of what some people might think. You want more war, keep voting for Republicans, or just stay home, same thing. You want peace, keep voting for Democrats.
Good post. :thumbsup:

[elocs]

8. Right! Democrats do not have enough of a majority to do a lot of things without Republican help.

Just think of the one big, big thing here which posters are screaming bloody murder to have done that cannot be successfully accomplished without the help of Republicans. We need to find and convince Republicans (in Congress) that they should vote with the Democrats on specific issues, that they don't need to become Democrats to agree with us on some things. There probably are Republicans out there who could be separated from the herd.

Too often we present things as being black and white, good and evil. When somebody is portrayed as being evil and painted into a corner they are not very inclined to see the error of their ways. They will be more likely to get their backs up and to bite their noses off to spite their faces. It is too bad that diplomacy has become a lost art and we have so often lost the ability to see and understand the other's point of view even if we do not agree with it. This is particularly difficult for us as Democrats since we are always correct, which at times can be such a burden.

[Virginia Dare]

9. I blame that on Gingrich and Delay...

this is the atmosphere they created, when they came to power a lot of the old schoolers quit in disgust. There is no such art as compromise anymore. You're either with us or against us, no middle ground. Sad.

[Norquist Nemesis]

7. Silly, they're now the "Roadblock Republicans"

*wink*