Labels: 2008 candidates, 2008 Election, Chuck Hagel, Dennis Kucinich, Glenn Greenwald, Ron Paul
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posted by profmarcus at
11/13/2007
[T]he President has let [Iraq] proceed on automatic pilot, making no corrections in the face of accumulating evidence that his strategy is failing and cannot be rescued.
"Thus, he lets the United States fly further and further into trouble, squandering its influence, money, and blood, facilitating the gains of our enemies. The Congress is the only mechanism we have to fill this vacuum in command judgment.
"To put this in a simple army metaphor, the Commander-in-Chief seems to have gone AWOL, that is 'absent without leave.' He neither acts nor talks as though he is in charge. Rather, he engages in tit-for-tat games.
"Some in Congress on both sides of the aisle have responded with their own tits-for-tats. These kinds of games, however, are no longer helpful, much less amusing. They merely reflect the absence of effective leadership in a crisis. And we are in a crisis.
"Most Americans suspect that something is fundamentally wrong with the President's management of the conflict in Iraq. And they are right.
"The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place. The war could never have served American interests.
"look, george... it's over... iraq's over... your presidency is over... you've got a choice... you can either gracefully resign along with dick cheney, or we're going to bust our humps to remove you via impeachment... the country and the world can't put up with any more, george... we've had it..."
Labels: Chuck Hagel, Congress, Democrats, Dick Cheney, Harry Reid, Impeachment, Iraq, James Baker, John Murtha, Larry Wilkerson, Lee Iacocca, Nancy Pelosi, Richard Clarke, Russ Feingold, William E. Odom
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
4/28/2007
An amendment to strip a timeline for withdrawal of US forces from Iraq was succesfully defeated today by Senate Democrats. Forty-eight senators voted in favor of the amendment, and 50 against it.
Labels: Chuck Hagel, Democrats, Iraq, Iraq war funding proposal, Iraq withdrawal, Mark Pryor, Republicans, US Senate
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
3/27/2007
Hagel ... in an interview published in April's edition of Esquire Magazine...
"The president says, 'I don't care.' He's not accountable anymore. He's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don't know. It depends how this goes."
Labels: accountability, Chuck Hagel, Department of Justice, George Bush, Impeachment, US Attorneys
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
3/25/2007
"Republican support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales eroded Sunday as three key senators sharply questioned his truthfulness and a Democrat joined the list of lawmakers who want him to resign over the firing of eight federal prosecutors," reports the Associated Press.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the attorney general must be "candid and truthful," but if it is revealed that Alberto Gonzales has "not been candid and truthful, that's a very compelling reason for him not to stay on."
Speaking on ABC's "This Week," the Republican Senator from Nebraska Chuck Hagel said that Gonzales has a "credibility problem."
On another Sunday talk show, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) called Gonzales "wounded" by the attorney firings scandal, and said that "He has said some things that just don't add up."
Labels: Alberto Gonzales, Arlen Specter, Attorney General, Chuck Hagel, Democrats, Dianne Feinstein, George Bush, Republicans, Senate Judiciary Committee, US Attorneys
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
3/25/2007
[A] guru to the conservative movement, says [that] ... "One of the top aides to the Republican leadership told me that McCain has lost so much support, he's simply beside himself. He's wringing his hands. Things are sinking fast—in two or three weeks, we'll know if there is any recovery."
Labels: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Edwards, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Wes Clark
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
3/07/2007
"The president says, 'I don't care.' He's not accountable anymore," Hagel says, measuring his words by the syllable and his syllables almost by the letter. "He's not accountable anymore, which isn't totally true. You can impeach him, and before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment. I don't know. It depends how this goes."
The conversation beaches itself for a moment on that word -- impeachment -- spoken by a conservative Republican from a safe Senate seat in a reddish state. It's barely even whispered among the serious set in Washington, and it rings like a gong in the middle of the sentence, even though it flowed quite naturally out of the conversation he was having about how everybody had abandoned their responsibility to the country, and now there was a war going bad because of it.
"Congress abdicated its oversight responsibility," he says. "The press abdicated its responsibility, and the American people abdicated their responsibilities. Terror was on the minds of everyone, and nobody questioned anything, quite frankly."
Labels: Chuck Hagel, Congress, George Bush, Impeachment, Republicans, US Senate, White House
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
3/06/2007
But even after the utter repudiation of the war in the election of November 2006, Republicans and Democrats have been slow to realize that Bush’s post-election escalation will cause opposition to the conflict to be a “tsunami” in 2008. After digging in her heels about the apology, Hillary will not even be able to get the Democratic nomination.
Anti-war Barack Obama, or more likely, John Edwards—who has apologized for his war vote—will be the Democratic nominee and the next President.
Because Bush’s escalation flies in the face of public opinion—in both the United States and Iraq—he has sunk the chances of the Republican Party in the 2008 election. All the major Republican candidates—John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney—have been forced to endorse the escalation.
Only the courageous Chuck Hagel has criticized the President’s policy, but regrettably he will not survive the Republican primaries because of that stance.
Although the finger-pointing will continue throughout the 2008 election campaign, ironically the Iraqis—aggrieved but the butt of blame for their plight—will have had a powerful influence on who is the next leader of the free world.
Labels: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Iraq Escalation, John Edwards, Republicans
Submit To Propellerposted by profmarcus at
2/23/2007
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