Almost nothing would fill them [Democrats] with greater horror than to wake up and find that a handful of Republicans are willing to back the Democratic Party in what its leaders say it wants to do relative to Iraq.
Almost nothing, short of seeing the sun come up in the west, would be more astounding.
There is absolutely nothing that would cause a sufficient "handful" of Republicans to defy Bush. Not now. Not next week. Not next year. Not until January, 2009, when Bush sails off into the west, singing, "We were on the road to victory when I was President" all the way.
There is a greater liklihood of aliens landing on the White House lawn than Republicans will show greater loyalty to their country than to their Party.
Guaranteed.
I will publicly apologize to every contrary posting person on this board. I promise! That is how confident I am that the Republican Party demands, and receives the total loyalty of their Congressional delegation, without sufficient numbers to ever hit the threshold to halt a Republican fillibuster or over ride a Bush veto.
I make that offer regardless of anyone else's contra promise, because I know that the real agenda of the "it's all the Democrat's fault" agenda is to detract sufficient votes to hopeless third-party candidates so Republicans can return to Congressional control and retain the White House.
I suspect it will take a lot more than just another 2 years of squandered wealth and dead GIs to get Democrats to actually seriously push for anything more than the current status quo.
Just to repeat. What, exactly, would you have the Democrats do? Cast 67 votes with their 50 members to override Bush's guaranteed veto of any bill that does not meet Rove's criteria? Cast 61 of their 50 votes to end guaranteed Republican fillibusters of budgets that do not include Iraq funding to Bush decreed levels?
Or do we get to be treated to "Democrats are as bad as Republicans" for the next two years, when thrown-away votes for "perfect" Third-party candidates bring back 100% Republican rule? Because that is the only actually action that I have ever heard from anyone who blames Democrats for everything.
