Senate fails to pass Iraq exit bill as tempers flare

If only Democrats would attack Al-Quaeda as vigorously as they attack Republicans!

Synonym for Democrats: Failures again and again.

I don't understand, why is nobody calling this a fillibuster? This is exactly the same thing that happened four years ago with Bush's pyscho judges. At the time Republican's were threatening to use the "nuclear option" to get past the fillibuster and it was all the press could talk about. Now the press seems to be allergic to the very word fillibuster. Why is that? How much does the white house pay you?

The draft dodging, bug-eyed McConnell should gear up and hit the streets of Baghdad in support of the 'surge'. Let's see how patriotic this queer is. He's another tough talking Republican chickenhawk with absolutely zero military experience.
Iraq is a complete diaster with no end in sight. Military solution not possible. Puppet Iraqi government powerless and incompetent.

Why can't the Chicago Tribune call the Republican efforts to derail this legislation by it's true name? The Republicans stayed up all night FILIBUSTERING this bill to kill it. The Democrats did not pass the bill because the Republicans filibustered it.

So the Republicans are on record backing Commander Guy and his illegal occupation.

Got it.

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV,) the Senate Majority Leader, decried the fact that Republicans were requiring 60 votes and not a simple majority on the Levin-Reid Amendment.

Hilarious!

Harry Reid, Dec. 14 2004 in the Washington Post

"If they, for whatever reason, decide to do this (propose a simple majority vote to defeat filibusters), it's not only wrong, they will rue the day they did it, because we will do whatever we can do to strike back," incoming Senate Democratic leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) said last week. "I know procedures around here. And I know that there will still be Senate business conducted. But I will, for lack of a better word, screw things up."

It has been a pleasure watching these pro-war chickenhawk Republicans defend an already failed Iraq policy.

It's time for the wimpy Repubs who have actually spoken out against W.'s civil war in Iraq to put their votes where their mouths are.

Actually, both parties are in on the same huge play, a black comedy that features a lot of show boating and posturing and making sure nothing really gets done. What we need in this country is a strong third party that would clean house--or the present theater.

Hmmm. Try out this headline:

Reid Delays Defense Authorizaiton Bill Unitl Republicans Stop Filibustering

Harry Reid, took a stand and if we all did the same thing then maybe some action would be taken in regard to this war. With Al Quida on the rise, are we at risk??? ask yourself that question and then let your mind rest and consider our fighting men, they are closer to the problem then we are, are we jeopardizing their lives because Bush wants our boys to remain there and fight a losing war??? I stand with harry Reid, BRING OUR BOYS HOME!!!!!!!

Harry Reid, took a stand and if we all did the same thing then maybe some action would be taken in regard to this war. With Al Quida on the rise, are we at risk??? ask yourself that question and then let your mind rest and consider our fighting men, they are closer to the problem then we are, are we jeopardizing their lives because Bush wants our boys to remain there and fight a losing war??? I stand with harry Reid, BRING OUR BOYS HOME!!!!!!!

It is amazing reading leftist postings on this blog.We are winning the war in Iraq with this surge.
The despicable stunt pulled by Reid and Durbin was to satisfy their kook base and to try to extort Republican votes for surrender.
The Democrats in the Senate and House are invested in defeat. They own defeat in Iraq. They say they want to fight AlQuaeda and AlQuaeda is fighting in Iraq so, we have to be in Iraq till we complete the security of Iraq and the region.
The driveby media showed the cots being hauled in the Senate. Barbara Boxer had a meltdown on CNN complaining that the GOP made them get 60 votes. Boxer is one of the many Dems trying to secure defeat for her own personal and political gain.
But, watch out Democrats the American people saw your stupid games complete with dog and pony shows led by the meister Dingy Harry Reid with his cohort in crime Dickie Durbin. By the way, Hillary sounded like anybodys worst ex-wife yelling about pulling out of Iraq.
Remeber Tom Daschle he pushed to keep the 60 votes now it doesn't please the Jackass party. Jerry White, Springfield, IL

You Dems/liberals have NO CLUE !!!

You have folks like Jerry B Wanting our boys home with the usaul losing war blather.

You have others who can't defend thier positions with ranting about chinkhawk queers, blah blah blah !!!!

You folks are sick....
You try like hell to aid our enemies, to tell them the date and time we'll leave and with the very next breath you state your undieing support for our troops!!!....You make me SICK !!!!

What oh What is YOUR solution to fighting global terror?...Kill O Ben in Afganstan?... do you real think that would make a difference?

You got nothing !!!
Your whole play is If it's President Bush it's wrong?

But what do you or reid or Durbin or Hillary or the rest have ...SQUAT!!!

When you rely..I'll make sure I put my PC near a house plan cause it can use the fertilizer

Funny, how just last Fall and Winter, the Queen B was saying pulling out of Iraq would not be a good thing to do. Now, she screetches it like she's yelling at Bill to take out the garbage.
At least Barack has been consistent.

It's fun to see the leftists calling Republicans "chicken hawks." Here's the dictionary definition of chicken hawk: "a hawk that preys or is believed to prey on chickens." Guess who the chickens are.
They all have the letter "D" after their names!

Doug R,

McConnell was not a draft dodger, he VOLUNTEERED for the military in 1967 but was given an honorable discharge for medical reasons soon after.

"Your whole play is If it's President Bush it's wrong?"

Well...has he ever been right about anything?

bobdog, are you insane?

We are losing this war because the chickenhawk liars that started it were not smart enough or brave enough to do it the right way. If we wanted to win this war there would be a draft, that way we wouldn't have to keep extending troop tours. But no, Bush doesn't really want to win it, not if the cost is a draft, which he fears instinctually because he (and most of his advisors) spent their youths hiding from the draft.

Nobody has helped our enemies more than Bush. This war in Iraq is EXACTLY what Bin Laden wanted. He couldn't have asked for a better recruiting tool. Of course Bush might have been told to start this stupid war by the Bin Laden family, the same family that bailed him out of several businesses Bush ran into the ground in his youth.

And if you think hanging on in Iraq just a little longer will turn Iraq into a wonderland maybe you should look at the history of the area. Look to see how the British faired when they occupied Iraq.

It was a fundamentally stupid war from the get go. I doubt it would have worked if we had the "several hundreds of thousands of troops" General Shinseki suggested but it certainly didn't work with the NeoCons ill conceived shock and awe strategy.

You Goopers are so naive and gullible... I pity you.

Do the world a favor, get out of the gene pool.

"If they, for whatever reason, decide to do this (propose a simple majority vote to defeat filibusters), it's not only wrong, they will rue the day they did it, because we will do whatever we can do to strike back," incoming Senate Democratic leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.).

Thank God for the Gang of 14!

Yes. He identified Islamic Jihadis as our enemy. He is now working, with the help of our military, to defeat them in a theater far away from our shores.

Hey Timmy Crook,

Yep the President has been right on many things and been wrong on some others.

Things he's ben right on...
1) War on Global Terrorist
Bingo !!!!

2) Economy
Bingo !!!!

Things he was wrong on....

1)Illegal Immigration...
Dead Bang Wrong !!!

2)Trying to work with Dems
Dead Bang Wrong !!!
This point will be supported when this post is read and the libs will come out screaming

If we could start up the draft again and some of these toughtalking chickenhawk Republic Party members would start seeing some of their family members actually having to go over and fight in W.'s stupid civil war in Iraq....maybe....just maybe, we would actually hear them speak the truth about Iraq.

To the Goopers who think we "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."

No, the most recent NIE says exactly the opposite. Our fighting them over there is making it MORE likely that we will have to fight them over here.

Go read it. Then take and anti RTP (Republican Talking Point) pill, turn off fox news and try to grow a brain.

Things he's ben right on...
1) War on Global Terrorist
Bingo !!!!

Posted by: bobdog | July 18, 2007 3:05 PM

So you think allowing Al Qaeda to set up a new safe base of operations in Pakistan is the right way to fight terror?

You try like hell to aid our enemies, to tell them the date and time we'll leave and with the very next breath you state your undieing support for our troops!!!....You make me SICK !!!
Posted by: Bobdog | July 18, 2007 1:54 PM

Sorry to hear of your illness Bobcat. Take off your helmet, step away from the keyboard slowly as not to set off any of those IED's in that bunker in your basement, and tell me one more time you want to call me a coward...?

make the repugs filibuster mr. smith goes to washington style... i'll make popcorn, and watch with glee as these traitorous slimy bastards keel over and expire one by one...

bobdog's blowin a gasket!! lol!! what a seriously dumb man he is... yell all u want, nobody who has critical thinking skills AND a soul will buy the BS you're selling...

at the point in time commonly known as 9/11, the decison to invade iraq was treason-- pure AND simple-- the evil filth in the white house decided they had the excuse to grab the iraqi oil they were lusting over...

bush/cheney & co. is guilty of murdering each and every american soldier who has died in iraq-- if u are such an absolutely brain dead moron that u can't see that-- u are like a babe in the woods...

this has nothing to do with how big a putz and a prostitute reid and pelosi are... we all know they are bought and paid for by the same big shot corporate chieftans as the republicans...

i'll leave u with a thought... if u are going to the movies and MAKE A WRONG TURN, what do u do?, admit it, suffer some small dose of embarrasment, turn around and get to the movie on time; or do u drive all the way around the world because u feel in your heart that u can make it, eventually, one day?

u blood and soil types need to get a grip... u sound like a bunch of nazis from a recently bygone era...

defeat????? little crybaby whiny republican wimpy poozies... blame the dems for the defeat?? lol... u repugs own this own baby lock stock and two smoking barrels...

any defeat suffered in iraq, any loss of prestige, any damage done to the psyche of the military - WILL ALL be on the heads of the republican party, and this sick evil administration in particular...

so just admit the truth-- acknowledge that he liberals had it dead right from th start-- that the neo-Cons used u like pretty-boy's rear end in the pen...

the only thing worse than being a knuckle-dragging, right-wing pituitary retard who thinks its amusing that the president of the united states is a cowardly dry-drunk smirking monkey who likes to play with working people's children's lives-- is to not know u are...

frankly, I think we are headed to civil war... i don't know that the country can survive the cancer that you represent... the filth of your evil mind has already spread to far... we'll see...

this may be our last chance to put u back in a box where u belong...

Bobdog, what planet are you from? Your statements indicate that you have little or no familiarity with economics, world history, or the complex geopolitical situations at hand. I dislike liberals and conservatives. The world is too complex to be at either end of the spectrum.

The "war on terror" is a modern day fear tactic (similar to cold war) employed by the government/military-industrial complex designed to subvert the population in order to gain political, economic, and military control. Just look in a history book and replace the word "communist" with "terrorist". The communists didn't destroy us and neither will the terrorists.

The economy "sucks". Record trade deficits, plummeting dollar, and an astronomical level of spending that has us racking up record debts. What would happen if China called all of that debt Bobdog?! Bush has never been able to run a profitable business - why would he be able to run the largest economy on the planet?!?!

You know it's funny that you Loony Leftists keep talking about Republicans being chickenhawks when the fact is most of those in the military come from Republican homes, come from Christian families, come from Red states not Blue states. Most in the military are Republican not Democrat.
So, I guess that means the democrats are the true chickenhawks.

Seth,

You are one scary person with a micheal moore wanttobe complex.

And say I'VE blown a gasket?

Again..just like the rest..No Answers just rock throwing

Have a good life you Chump!

Hey Decider,

How many of your relatives perished at the hands of communist? Many of mine did!

How many Jews and other undesireables perished at the hands of Nazis!
I know people who lost relatives and friends to the Nazis!

Now we face fanatical Muslims who BLOW up themselves and others for thier twisted view of thier religion.

Just for starts you self important fool!!!

Yeah communist boogman is just make believe to scare little childern...

The reason we're still here is that we stood up to communism instead of backing down as you and those your ilict would have us do now with Islamic fanatics...Idiot!!!

The ecomony is fine! Stock market is up...tax revenues are up.. unemployemet is down...

And you're still a pompus Idiot!!

The all night session was a joke. Funny how soon the same party that thought filibustering was a great idea when they were in the minority, now see filibustering as a capital offense.

The dems point is mute. Even if they did pass it with simple majority, the POTUS would veto it and they wouldn't be able to overide the veto.

Stop wasting everyone's time with the drama of all night debates that you know will fail. Its all for show.

So much for all the change the Dems were promising last year when they were running for office. They turned out to be as incompetent at changing anything as they made their opponents out to be.

The reason we're still here is that we stood up to communism instead of backing down as you and those your ilict would have us do now with Islamic fanatics...Idiot!!!
Posted by: Bobdog | July 18, 2007 5:03 PM

Remind me again what day it was that we invaded Russia.. Bobpuppy? Can you identify which ones are terrorists or do you want to just shoot anybody that looks of muslim decent? Hey..how bout the French? do you like them or are they toast? Tell me tex...how many gallons is yer hat?

boobdog, u are an idiot or a liar or both...

try this on for size... iran had a democratically elected government in the 50's... women had the right to vote... mosaddeq was elected by a majority of the iranian people... when he decided to increase the royalties the foreign oil companies were paying to extract iranian oil the cia had him deposed... the protoNeoCons installed the murderous shah...

this is what led to the islamification of iran...

if u greedy mental midget republicans could ever learn to look past tomorrow the world would be a better place...

Keep the pressure on all of you who want us out of Iraq...Thanks to Tom Petty...

Well I wont back down, no I wont back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I wont back down

Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around
And Ill keep this world from draggin me down
Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down

Hey baby, there aint no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I wont back down.

Well I know whats right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin me around
But Ill stand my ground and I wont back down

Hey baby there aint no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I wont back down
No, I wont back down

Democrats are not chickenhawks. They're just chickens. Period.