{"id":197716,"date":"2008-01-16T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/democrats-move-to-prevent-bush-from-encumbering-next-president-on-iraq\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T11:14:00","slug":"democrats-move-to-prevent-bush-from-encumbering-next-president-on-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/16\/democrats-move-to-prevent-bush-from-encumbering-next-president-on-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Move to Prevent Bush From Encumbering Next President on Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t see these going anywhere, because of the gutless leadership in the House and Senate, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/005078.php\">Representative Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have introduced bills prohibiting the Bush administration from entering into a binding security arrangement with Iraq<\/a>.  They require the President to follow Article II of the constitution, and get the &#8220;advice and consent&#8221; of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the House version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/docs\/congress-iraq\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, it should be introduced once a month leading up to election day, just to make Republicans vote for the war, over, and over, and over again.<\/p>\n<p>For the life of me, with a substantial majority of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Republicans<\/span> wanting a pullout, and a president who is less popular than the idea of Britney Spears<sup>*<\/sup> as a baby sitter, that the Republican delegation continues to back this failed war of a failed president.<\/p>\n<p>They are drowning, and they are throwing themselves an anvil, and calling it water wings.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Yes, I know that I have promised not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/this-is-oj-and-britney-free-zone-too.html\"> <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/a>, but this is not a discussion of her, rather an invocation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t see these going anywhere, because of the gutless leadership in the House and Senate, but Representative Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) have introduced bills prohibiting the Bush administration from entering into a binding security arrangement with Iraq. They require the President to follow Article II of the constitution, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1097,1063,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-constitution","category-iraq","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}