January 8, 2007

SIT BACK AND LET GEORGE DRIVE:

Democrats Revise Agenda To Deal With War in Iraq: With Bush to Announce New Plan, Domestic Policy No Longer Primary Focus (Jonathan Weisman, January 8, 2007, Washington Post)

Pushed by House members who want a quick, tough response to the Iraq strategy President Bush is expected to announce this week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has backed off from her initial assertion that nothing should detract attention from the legislation she hopes to pass in the first 100 hours of House debate.

The GOP didn't lose the initiative back to Bill Clinton until Newt & Bob Dole made the disastrous decision to re-open the government. Democrats have lost it the first week.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2007 1:41 PM
Comments

Very good. When push came to shove, the Republican pols acted like pols, and couldn't really starve the beast.

Posted by: Lou Gots at January 8, 2007 3:49 PM

I don't get it. Field Marshal Pelosi never served in the military, so why does she have standing to comment on the war?

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 8, 2007 4:17 PM

Because she is the new leader of our nation...isn't she?

Posted by: Dave W at January 8, 2007 6:16 PM

Dave W, you really should get a book for these posts. A blog record, at least since I've been checking in here.

Posted by: erp at January 8, 2007 10:07 PM

Thanks for cleaning up my Valdez-like posting spill. I kept getting a message telling me that the address I was attempting to connect to was invalid.

Posted by: Dave W at January 9, 2007 6:13 AM
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