Kabuki Dance
Posted at 12:18pm on Feb. 8, 2008 They're Delaying the FISA bill again...
Gotta say: he may be a spineless little whelp of a man...
By Moe Lane
...but Harry Reid sure knows how to hide in plain sight:
Senate delays FISA vote — again
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) once again pushed back key votes on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act until early next week, another temporary setback for the long-stalled bill.
After passing an economic stimulus package late Thursday afternoon, the Senate immediately began taking up some of the 11 amendments pending to the FISA bill.
However, Reid put off votes on final passage of the bill, which means it will not likely be completed until early next week.
Specifically, Tuesday. Two of Senator Feingold's amendments (3913 and 3915) have already crashed and burned, which should have surprised nobody; and the fact that the next stage has been scheduled for a day when two Democratic Senators are going to be in the middle of an absolutely critical campaign day (MD, VA, & DC - which means, paradoxically, that a last-minute cancellation could be plausible*) is, of course, a complete and total coincidence.
Of course.
Moe
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Posted at 1:55am on Dec. 29, 2007 Meanwhile, our opposite numbers are having their own knife fight.
By Moe Lane
Or possibly it's a Pokemon battle: "General Wes Clark, I CHOOSE YOU!"
So... the general's apparently in the bag for Hillary this go-round. Now, why am I not even remotely surprised? And why am I wondering just how long he's been in that bag?
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Posted at 10:11pm on Dec. 19, 2007 Oh, yeah, it's official: they funded the troops without restrictions.
$70 billion. I guess we'll just have to get the rest next year.
By Moe Lane
Inevitable, if a little annoying that the Democrats are being so tedious about doing as they're told:
House Approves $70 Billion More for War
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress approved $70 billion Wednesday for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a bitter finish for majority Democrats who tried to force a change in President Bush's war policy.
The House's 272-142 vote also sent the president a $555 billion catchall spending bill that combines the war money with money for 14 Cabinet departments.
Bush and his Senate GOP allies forced the Iraq money upon anti-war Democrats as the price for permitting the year-end budget deal to pass and be signed. But other Democrats were eager to avoid being seen as not supporting troops who are in harm's way—and avoid weeks of bashing by Bush for failing to provide that money.
Via Ace.
Read on.
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