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Monday, February 26, 2007

Expect the deauthorization plan to go the way of the Murtha slow-bleed plan

It turns out that the Democrats are finding that it is very hard to run a war from the Congress when the president is opposed to your actions. So now they have come up with a plan to deauthorize the war and say that our troops should just be used to train the Iraqi forces and not be used for combat. Hey, isn't that basically what Bush was doing for most of 2006 while the situation kept deteriorating and all the Democrats demanded that he alter? Why do they think it would be any more conducive to peace in Iraq than it was last year?

And if they've lost Chuck Hagel from their move, they've lost the whole ballgame. Bob Novak reports today that even Hagel wouldn't support such a move in the Senate. And with Lieberman opposing it, that means they don't even have a majority much less the 60 votes they'd need to get the deauthorization voted on the Senate floor.

I think they'll just have to content themselves, even if it won't satisfy their base, with lots of oversight hearings accompanied by much sniping.
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It turns out that the Democrats are finding that it is very hard to run a war from the Congress when the president is opposed to your actions. So now they have come up with a plan to deauthorize the war and say that our troops should just be used to train the Iraqi forces and not be used for combat. Hey, isn't that basically what Bush was doing for most of 2006 while the situation kept deteriorating and all the Democrats demanded that he alter? Why do they think it would be any more conducive to peace in Iraq than it was last year?

And if they've lost Chuck Hagel from their move, they've lost the whole ballgame. Bob Novak reports today that even Hagel wouldn't support such a move in the Senate. And with Lieberman opposing it, that means they don't even have a majority much less the 60 votes they'd need to get the deauthorization voted on the Senate floor.

I think they'll just have to content themselves, even if it won't satisfy their base, with lots of oversight hearings accompanied by much sniping.

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