Amy P. once again posts some crap about how Democrats are evil but misses a critical fact... that the majority of the Senate wants to go on record opposing Bush's 'surge' but in a tactic suggested by Newt "I am the Government" Gingrich, the minority filibustered the debate on the measure.
Oh Amy, you are so... misinformed. But what do you expect, you quoted Fox Noise. The vote for cloture (which is the process by which the Senate votes to close discussion and proceed to a debate, a parlimentary trick and one that is sure to make Newt Gingrich happy) was, at 56-to34:
...four short of the 60 needed to advance the nonbinding measure. The resolution is identical to one recently passed by the house.
Seven GOP senators broke ranks, compared with only two joining in an earlier test on the issue but it wasn't enough.
So, proving that Amy has trouble understanding how our government works, her calculations were wrong, and more importantly, as a result were misleading. There were 56 senators that voted to bring the non-binding resolution before the Senate, but due to this parlimentary maneuver, the minority of the Senate, the Republicans, were able to prevent going on the record as to their committment to the President. That means that, aside from Joe Lieberman, every Democrat voted to debate the issue, and 7 Republicans crossed the party line.
So, in fact, the majority of the Senate wanted to debate the issue; it was 34 disgracefully petulant and unpatriotic Republicans that prevented what the American people want: an open and honest discussion about Iraq, and a movement to bring it to a conclusion.
By your logic (not to mention reality), perhaps the mandate Speaker Pelosi has is from the majority of the country. Maybe the Congress should wake up a realize this fact.
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