On the dropping of the Iraq timelines

ooooooo... there are some REALLY, REALLY pissed off people out there, and who can blame them...?

from the nyt via think progress...

Congressional Democrats relented today on their insistence that a war spending measure sought by President Bush also set a date for withdrawing troops from Iraq. The decision to back down, described by senior lawmakers and aides, was a wrenching reversal for some Democrats, who saw their election triumph as a call to force an end to the war. A Democratic effort to include timelines prompted Mr. Bush’s veto of the original bill last month, producing a political impasse.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada talked to reporters today about the Iraq spending bill.

“We don’t have a veto-proof Congress,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader.

Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the House Democratic majority leader, said the new bill was still being assembled, but he acknowledged the political reality facing Democrats. “The president has made it very clear that he is not going to sign timelines,” said Mr. Hoyer. “We can’t pass timelines over his veto.”

a sampling of some of the first comments to the think progress post...

• Pathetic. It’s time for IMPEACHMENT.
• I agree, it’s pathetic that Bush won’t accept the will of the people! ITMFA!
• To the leadership of the Democratic Party. “No Balls” You should’ve kept fighting. The people demanded it. You’re nothing but appeasers at this point.
• Ugh. All the MSM will talk about is this. Wonder if they’ll even mention THIS: Bomb Plot Thwarted at Falwell’s Funeral Aimed Towards Protesters.
• The city of Detroit voted over the last week to tell Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. So, too, did the Massachusetts Democratic Party and the Vermont Progressive Party. Here in Wisconsin, the Walworth County Democratic Party did the same, reminding us that even in the more conservative parts of this state, there are still believers in the rule of law.
• very very depressing…. But, this may cause the most anti war candidates to go to the top of the line.
• I feel Betrayed. I believe time has come for a Three Party political system in this country.
• That just SUCKS. What a f*cking waste–don’t they understand why they were elected in November? They might as well just shove their collective heads up Bush’s ass and have done with.
• God forbid the Dem leadership stand up to a politically weak and overwhelmingly unpopular President.
• That the Dem leadership pitched the libs over the side in order to suck up to the GOP leadership is vile beyond words. The Dem leadership is far too interested in the likes of what Joe Lieberman thinks about this war, as opposed to what their voters think of this occupation. At this point, anyone who still votes to give W whatever he wants is just as complicit in the needless deaths and maimings of US troops and Iraqi civilians, as surely as if they would have pulled the trigger or set off the IED’s themselves.
• “We don’t have a veto-proof Congress,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader…” So, you answer is to give up and send him exactly what he wants! LAME DEMOCRATS!! So what if you don’t have a veto-proof Congress. Keep sending him bills that ask for what you want. ONE AFTER THE OTHER. Let him keep vetoing them. Don’t give in so easily. This government is a total joke!
• The Democrats have betrayed the American people. Time to start getting serious or wer’e going to lose this country. I’m had it. No one is showing any b-lls. F–k the Demcrats and Harry Reid. It’s time for the people to step in and impeach the bastards. Obviously, it’s our only recourse. This is crushing. I am so angry.

yep... that about sums it up...

i'm watching grassroots/netroots confidence in the democrats wash away like a sand castle at high tide... they've got some very serious damage control to do over this and it can't come fast enough... the pot is starting to boil and, when it does, look out...

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