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Date: April 15, 2007 12:55:20 AM PDT
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Subject: Impeach Bush BEFORE He Starts Arresting Democrats in
Congress for "Treason"!
Bush says Democrats giving victory to our enemies
By Carolyn Pritchard, MarketWatch
Last Update: 11:07 AM ET Apr 14, 2007
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/bush-says-democrats-giving-
victory/story.aspx?guid=%7B1DC66A55-1898-4B0E-9DB9-FEC8D11139DA%7D
SAN FRANCISCO -- President Bush on Saturday said that the Democrats
in Congress are "giving our enemies the victory they desperately
want."
"I sent Congress an emergency war spending bill that would provide
the vital funds needed for our troops on the front lines," he said
in his weekly radio address to the nation. "But instead of
approving this funding, Democrats in Congress have spent the past
68 days pushing legislation that would undercut our troops."
"They passed bills that would impose restrictions on our military
commanders and set an arbitrary date for withdrawal from Iraq,
giving our enemies the victory they desperately want, he said." See
full text of speech.
Bush said he looks forward to hearing how members of Congress plan
to provide troops funding when he meets with Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the White House on
Wednesday.
House Democrats late last month passed a $124.6 billion spending
package that would set tough benchmarks for the Iraqi government
and withdraw most U.S. troops from the country by next year.
Bush has consistently said he will veto the war-spending bills.
Troops should not be "trapped in the middle" of Republicans' and
Democrats' differing stance over the best course of action in Iraq,
Bush said on Saturday.
"Congress must now work quickly and pass a clean bill that funds
our troops, without artificial time lines for withdrawal, without
handcuffing our generals on the ground," he said.
Carolyn Pritchard is a reporter for MarketWatch in San Francisco.
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Cheney Berates Democrats on War
Policies Attacked as 'Far-Left Platform' of McGovern Era
By Peter Baker
Washington Post, April 14, 2007; A07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/13/
AR2007041301980.html
CHICAGO, April 13 -- Vice President Cheney accused congressional
Democrats today of reviving the "far-left platform" of George
McGovern from the 1970s, an agenda that he said would raise taxes,
declare surrender in an overseas war and leave the United States
exposed to new dangers.
In a sharp-edged speech, Cheney escalated the Bush administration
attack on Congress for passing war spending legislation that would
mandate withdrawing at least some U.S. troops from Iraq. He raised
the specter of the end of the Vietnam era, when McGovern, then a
Democratic senator from South Dakota, ran for president on a peace
platform and lost the 1972 election in a landslide to President
Richard M. Nixon.
"That was the last time the national Democratic Party took a hard
Left turn," Cheney told a conference hosted by the conservative
Heritage Foundation. "But in 2007, it looks like history is
repeating itself. Today, on some of the most critical issues facing
the country, the new Democratic majority resembles nothing so much
as that old party of the early 1970s."
Cheney asserted that Democrats want to impose "the largest tax
increase in American history" and have already "earned a place in
the big-spending hall of fame." Their support for pulling out of
Iraq, he said, suggests they do not "fully appreciate the nature of
the danger this country faces in the war on terror" and have given
in to "the far left wing" with actions that "have moved from the
merely inconsistent to the irresponsible."
The red-meat attack represented part of a broader effort to bring
back into the fold a Republican base that in recent years has grown
increasingly disenchanted with President Bush over his leadership
of the war and his administration's spending policies. Cheney
sought to redirect conservatives ' attention against a common enemy
by drawing parallels to McGovern, a figure who tends to unite the
Right against the Left.
But with the public behind their plan to pull out of Iraq by next
year, according to opinion polls, congressional Democrats tried to
turn the rhetoric of the past back at Cheney.
"It's interesting that the vice president would make a reference to
the 1970s because, just like Nixon, President Bush is isolated and
hunkered down in the White House while his administration is under
investigation and top officials are withholding key evidence," said
Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.).
Reid was a favorite target for Cheney as the vice president took
aim at a number of prominent Democrats by name, including House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), former vice president Al Gore, Sen.
Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) and party chairman Howard Dean. He
mocked Pelosi for visiting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and
Reid for initially refusing to meet with Bush on the war spending
bill.
"When Nancy Pelosi flies nearly 6,000 miles to meet with the
president of Syria but Harry Reid hesitates to drive a mile and a
half to meet with the president of the United States, there's a
serious problem in the leadership of the Democratic Party," Cheney
said. Reid and Pelosi eventually agreed this week to meet with Bush
at the White House next week. Pelosi has defended her trip to
Syria, and Democrats have accused the White House of hypocrisy for
not denouncing prominent Republicans who have also visited Damascus.
Cheney noted that Reid has changed his position on Iraq in recent
months -- from forswearing any move to cut off war funding after
the November election to embracing legislation mandating withdrawal
to supporting another bill to flatly end spending on the war.
"Three positions in five months on the most important foreign
policy question facing our country and our troops," Cheney said. He
added: "Americans are entitled to question whether the endlessly
shifting positions he and others are taking are reflections of
principle or partisanship and blind opposition to the president."
Still, for all the tough lines in the speech, Cheney evidently
decided to pass on some of the toughest. In his prepared remarks,
he was to denounce Democrats as "the McGovernite Party" but when he
spoke he dropped that term and referred to it instead as "that old
party."
Likewise, the prepared text had him mocking Reid for claiming the
American people support the Democrats' war spending bill. Noting
various pork items inserted into the bill, Cheney's text had him
saying: "Harry Reid may be the only man in America who thinks we
need to spend millions of dollars fighting crickets in Nevada in
order to win a war in Iraq."
But when he delivered the speech, Cheney skipped over that paragraph.
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