"Stay the Course" has become "Shift the Blame"
 

From WaPo

I have seen this coming for some time. The evidence since the election has piled up higher and faster.

I see as President Bush's main motivations in Iraq the rapidly vanishing proposition that he can save face. Face. That's what's at most risk for him and I find that craven, selfish and cowardly. Disgusting.

He started the war thinking legacy. Now he's left with blame shifting.:mad:

:meanface: I'm ready to start a Peasants with Pitchforks campaign and run that fool out of office.

What's the big deal here? The Ds won Congress and he is pressing them to lead.

"Hey, Dems...please take this festering pile of crap and try not to screw it up any worse, okay?" :D

I remember the day when he was first given the presidency and people were all like,"yeah, he's someone a person would like to have a beer with" as if that was the requirement for leading a country.

Out of the mouth of Babes. Retort to the above comment. "Yeah, I mean Homer Simpson" is the best we could do for our country?

I suggest next time people vote according to reason and not emotion. emotions screw things up too much. They allow people like Pat Robertson to tell people if they don't vote for Bush then they are voting FOR abortion and therefore you will be guilty of murder.

Why did it take so much for people to see what half the country saw from the beginning?

Become?

How does the demoratic congressman from SD who had a heart attack and his replacement who will be named by the republican Gov. affect the balance of power?

*sigh*

New congressman was from SD. Had an Arterio-Venous Malformation, or AVM, not a heart attack. Had brain surgery for it.

He has not been replaced, since the only way to replace a sitting congressman is in case of death or resignation. The republican governor can indeed name a replacement, but only in those circumstances, neither of which is imminent.

Presuming a republican governor would appoint a republican congressman (now far afield in your hypothetical case), the balance of power in the Senate would shift to 50 republicans, 49 Democrats and 1 independent, and of course, the president of the Senate is Dick Cheney, the Vice President, a republican. So, potentially the balance of power would be 51-50 in favor of the republicans.

Did that answer your question?

Umm...don't you have a large supply of firearms you could use instead?:P

The Democrats disarmed themselves years ago. Some are questioning their wisdom...

Yes thanks Big V - I have heard a lot of crap and supposition about it and thought I'd come to the source for the truth - the Cellar - of course. seriously thanks.

Um, if he is "incapacitated for a vote - what happens then? Inquiring minds NEED to know.

no such thing.

there are historical precedents for "sitting" congressmen being absent, but alive, elsewhere for years at a stretch.

I will successfully resist the temptation to joke about incapacitated / capacity wrt congressmen.

There is no such thing as: "incapacitated for a vote". Whether our legal inability to make such distinctions is a good or bad thing remains an open question.

it's all so familiar.
will this fuckwit and his bitch Blair actually get away with the war crimes they have committed?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ewsbush6wn.jpg

So there just is no vote for his "constituants"?

Phil I am guessing yes.

??

Not all congressmen vote on all bills.

Not voting by by not being present (without getting too zen on you) is a kind of vote. An abstention in absentia, if you will.

His constituents need to monitor his work towards their goals, and voting is only a part of it. So is not voting.

Could it be that Bush is taking a page out of Putin's book? Has anybody goteen a geiger counter near this guy?

Strom was incapacitated for years...