Senate R's: Unwilling to do the White House's heavy lifting

after all this time, it's so very sweet to see republican congressional support of the criminal bush administration eroding before our very eyes... of course, i simply cannot fathom why it hadn't happened a long time ago... i have to ask myself, what kind of outrageousness would the white house have to engage in to make it go away altogether...? i shudder to think...

Unwilling to do the White House's heavy lifting on Iraq, Senate Republicans are prepared to step aside to allow language requiring troop withdrawals to reach President Bush, forcing him to face down Democratic adversaries with his veto pen.

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Republicans will still attempt to remove the deadline in a Senate vote expected as soon as today, and GOP leaders were reasonably confident they would muster a majority.

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No matter the outcome of the Senate vote, McConnell is looking ahead, assuming House Democrats will insist that withdrawal conditions be included when a final bill is sent to Bush. If so, McConnell said, Republicans would forgo the parliamentary tactics they used to block antiwar legislation that had forced Democrats to amass an insurmountable 60 votes to prevail.

"We need to get the bill on down to the president and get the veto out of the way," McConnell said.

let's "get the veto out of the way..." mitch, do you have any idea what the consequences of that veto are going to be for george and the rest of your party...? sure, you can spin it that "it wasn't us, it was HIM," but, given your history to date, do you honestly think anyone's going to buy it...?

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