Posted by madeline on January 16, 2007, at 17:04:33
In reply to Re: Washingtonpost: regardless of Congress » Declan, posted by fayeroe on January 16, 2007, at 14:09:05
Personally, I will be very surprised if congress does anything to even curb the president in this escalation of troops.
Politically, they are in pretty good shape, if the president's plan fails, the dems can say "HA! I told you so." and walk into the presidency in 2008. If it succeeds they can say "Ha! we were NOT going to be the ones to cut our troops off at the knees AND we funded this outstanding success!"
The people in the US expressed their protest using the vote this year and it will be up to us to push congress into some sort of action (if that's what we want).
Maddie
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