Reid Hits "Bully" Bush: "He Damn Sure Is Not Entitled" To A Blank Check For Iraq

Reuters reports this afternoon:

Democrats who lead Congress likened President George W. Bush on Thursday to a bully on Iraq war policy and vowed to spend no more on combat without a deadline for bringing U.S. troops home.

"He damn sure is not entitled to having this money given to him just with a blank check," Sen. Harry Reid, the Democrats' Senate leader, told reporters.

"Americans need someone fighting for them taking on this bully we have in the White House," he said.

Reid and other Democrats, who hold slim majorities in both houses of Congress, accused Bush of wanting a free-flow of hundreds of billions of dollars for the Iraq war, all the while being tight-fisted on the home front.

"Every dollar we spend in Iraq comes at the expense of people in America," Reid said.

Also, Reid is threatening to "keep the Senate in session until Sunday in order to vote on a $50 billion stopgap-spending bill for the Iraq War that also would call for a significant drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of next year."

"We'll either do it the easy way or the hard way. It's up to the Republicans," Reid said. "We will have a Sunday vote scheduled. ... If they want to give us consent to have a vote earlier, we'll do that. But if they don't, we're not only going to be here, we're going to be here working."

Reid said he would file a motion to limit debate, or invoke cloture, on the House-passed bill on Friday. If Republicans insist on using all the time available to them to debate the cloture motion, the vote would occur Sunday.

Reid also hinted that he would schedule a series of quorum call votes to make sure Senators stay in town through Sunday for the vote.

"There will be some votes," Reid said. "If people think they can leave town and avoid missing votes, they can't. There will be votes during the day [this weekend]. I have the right to call those votes and I will do that."

Comments

[poorotis]

So where has Cheney been these days? Awful quiet of late, isn't he?

[VictorLudorum]

The full show is on the table ,although a bit of it might have to be left behind for historians to relate but the enigma of the postww2 divisions and their advocacy that delayed washington/moscow from entering a common world with its scientific technological revolutionizing age but maintained somekind of premise for regime children to try thier hand..This has been very costly for Africa and parts of Asia but the story has come to an end.. The entire constitutional bureacracies and regimes are on one table in Pakistan under a authoritative military junta ' that lends the puvlic institution time to gather for establishing a critereon while a common mechanism is evcised to diffuse the older regime governments...

[knerd]

Ending the war? They can't be serious!
This is all a smokescreen narrative devised to try and legitimize the Dems in Congress.
This "bold new proposal" says:
"...Requires a transition in the mission of US forces in Iraq from primarily combat to: force protection and diplomatic protection; limited support to Iraqi security forces; and targeted counter-terrorism operations...

Prohibits deployment of any troops not fully equipped and trained; waivable with a presidential national security certification..."

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/11/stop-lies-stop-funding-stop-genocide.html

[ang4ever]

Duh ! It's about time. Ok, now we're kicking Ass !

[ResidentChimp]

If Reid thinks President Bush is a bully, I wonder what he thinks of his buddy Osama?

[researcher]

the worst kept secret is the demos will fold.

now taking bets.


does vegas give odds on the demos folding?

lets see we can choose next year spineless demos or war mongering repugs. interesting choice.

[VOTER]

We should expect MORE TEARS from Republican

John Boehner...a Friday drama.

Bwaaaa

"The Dems will not support the troops. They want to bring them home. Bwaaaa."

[ekelly]

Thank you Harry Reid for all you have been trying to do. We all can see who is keeping the real vote from happening and causing these votes and vetos that have been frutless...but we have to keep the pressure and you have to keep trying. Otherwise we have become a dictatorship instead of 'by the people, for the people".

[nomobull]

PLEASE FORGIVE TYPE ERRORS

[nomobull]

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS ANF FROM YOU WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH WORDS

[LastSpartanStanding]

spineless...it is a requirement for democrats

[LastSpartanStanding]

When will you saps learn?

Dingy harry is a fool. A loud mouthed fool.

Just how stupid do you have to be to believe a single word he has to say?

[EspressoAtNoon]

How many times have we hear Reid / Pelosi talk tough and waive their fists at Bush, only to cower away like toy poodles when Bush screams back "Give me the money, now!".

I'm getting so sick of this dance!!

[ROBOT8]

"If something comes along that is truly serious, truly serious, something like a nuclear weapon going off in an American city, or something like a major pandemic, you are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that will take you back to the Declaration of Independence." -Lawrence Wilkerson, a chief of staff for then Secretary of State Colin Powell, on the [b]ush administration, which he said was run by a "cabal." 10/31/05 Newsweek

[neuron]

Senator Reid, you offer us wine, but give us grapes.