The Dems sure took a chomp out of the big green weenie - AGAIN...!

anybody who was paying the slightest bit of attention could have seen this one coming at least a mile away...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday an effort in Congress to pass a resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup undercuts U.S. commanders in Iraq and "emboldens the enemy."

but did our dear senators, especially our dear DEMOCRATIC senators, seize the moment back in december and put bobby under the microscope... oh, n-o-o-o-o-oooo... perish the thought...

In December 2006, ignoring warnings from former CIA officers who had worked with Gates, Senate Democrats embraced his nomination to replace Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They fawned over Gates at a one-day hearing, spared the former CIA director any tough questions, and then unanimously endorsed him.

Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York and others hailed Gates’s “candor” when he acknowledged the obvious, that the United States wasn’t winning the war in Iraq, a position that even Bush subsequently embraced.

In December, the “conventional wisdom” was that Bush would bend to the troop-drawdown recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group and that Gates – as a former member of the ISG – would guide the President toward disengagement from Iraq.

But in rushing Gates’s nomination through with only pro forma hearings, the Democrats sacrificed a rare opportunity to demand answers from the Bush administration about its war policy at a time when the White House wanted something from the Democrats, i.e. the quick confirmation of Gates.

now that they're breaking their arms patting each other on the back for their successful "first 100 hours," our presidential administration and its hand-picked cast of professional toadies continues to run our country into the ground...

Though then still in the Senate minority, committee Democrats had the power to demand fuller hearings. But they were desperate to demonstrate their bipartisanship and their generosity in victory, extending Bush an olive branch and hoping that Bush would respond in kind.

after SIX FRIGGIN' YEARS of getting the finger from george bush and his gang, what in god's name would give anyone the slightest indication that anything was going to change, particularly when cheney announced even BEFORE the november election that, regardless of the outcome, the administration would continue as before, full-tilt boogey, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead...? how many times do you have to bend over before you finally figure out what's coming...?

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