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Home Front: Politix
Democrats ask Bush to hold summit on Iraq
2006-11-09
That didn't take long.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Triumphant U.S. congressional Democratic leaders began to flex their new political muscle on Wednesday by urging President George W. Bush to host a bipartisan summit on the Iraq war and find common ground with them on such domestic issues as education and health care.
Because cutting-and-running from Iraq isn't enough, Bush has to do it at home as well.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said the American people voted for change in Tuesday's elections. "I hope that he (Bush) will listen," Pelosi said at a news news conference after receiving a congratulatory telephone call from Bush, who also called Reid.

"I told him (Bush) what I said last night -- that I looked forward to working in a bipartisan way with him, that the success of the president is always good for the country and I hoped that we could work together for the American people," Pelosi said.
"Until we impeach him," she added softly.
Reid said: "It is time to put partisanship aside and find a new way forward - at home and in Iraq. Today, I ask the president to surrender convene a bipartisan Iraq summit with the leaders of Congress."
Posted by:Steve White

#11  Mike K hits it outta the park! I remember that well. Time to do the same, while bringing up the Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians killed after the Donks pulled us out of VN. Put those millions of dead right on the DNC doorstep
Posted by: Frank G   2006-11-09 18:33  

#10  So does Nancy Pee want to invite Hamas, Hezballah, and AQ to the summit?
Posted by: JohnQC   2006-11-09 17:22  

#9  No, Congress doesn't make the policies... but they do appropriate the funds to carry them out. Or they fail to, as the case will be.
Posted by: eLarson   2006-11-09 15:50  

#8  The president makes foreign policy. Congress doesn't.
Tell 'em to fuck off. I was gonna say fuck off and die but I didn't because of the new spirit of "bipartisanship"...
Posted by: tu3031   2006-11-09 12:53  

#7  He's not taking a page from it, that's how he's always been.
Posted by: anonymous2u   2006-11-09 10:27  

#6  Bush will do it. He's going to take a leaf from the Schwartzenegger Metropublican book and cave. He's finally going to work some deals with them in exchange for immigration and minimum wage. He did it in Texas and he'll do it in Washington. Remember he's a compassionate conservative.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-11-09 09:06  

#5  "Democrats ask Bush to hold summit on Iraq"
They can even pray for it if they want to, but sometimes God's answer is simply "No".
Posted by: Darrell   2006-11-09 09:00  

#4  ..Does anybody remember after the '94 elections how the Donks insisted that they still had to control most (if not all) the committees, because there was no 'mandate' for the Reps?
I am no utterly and thoroughly convinced that - for at least the most left wing and senior of the Democratic Party - there is no real difference between their tactics and those of the Communists and Islamofascists: Take power by ANY MEANS NECESSARY, and if that still doesn't work, deny the legitimacy of your opponents' victory. And when you do win...accept nothing other than the total, complete and unquestioned surrender and submission of your opponents.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2006-11-09 08:45  

#3  Yesterday Pelosi was interviewed by Brit Hume. She said "Iraq was not a war to be won but a situation to be solved".

No one should be too surprised when at some point in time she says that we have no jihadist enemies but only friends we've failed to appease.

Posted by: Mark Z   2006-11-09 08:44  

#2  WHAT????????
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2006-11-09 08:19  

#1  SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH, ALTERNATISTS-LEFTLIBERALS are CONSERVATIVES too, but just didn't know it until the movie PEARL HARBOR + MSM-Hollyweird/HOME SIMPSON > "CAN'T SOMEONE ELSE DO IT!?" Clintonian Fascist = defective Limited Commie Amerika must save IRAQ before we turn it + entire ME [inlud Israel?]over to the Iranians.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-11-09 00:44  

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