Comments on: GOP Leader Threatens Filibuster On Iraq

Sen. Mitch McConnell Warns He May Block Legislation Expressing Disapproval Of Bush's Plan

[Jasonian18]

this government isn't fascist it is more socialist then should be though all thanks to roosevelt real pity he had to listen to Keynsian economics and start major government spending had that not happend our country wouldn't have a declining currency right now.

[Jasonian18]

so your saying that what the democrats are doing for America is good and that they are American? please they are just as non American as McConnell and by the way sending more troops over will end it quicker duh! the more troops we have over there the faster we can get out because we can't just leave we are winning th war on terrorism granted it is not just held to Iraq or Afghanistan and the war in Iraq is a success we have no hope of stopping the Sunni Shiite war so we can't imagine to try either that was not our goal what we did was hinder Al Quaeda from attacking again quickly or otherwise.

[Jasonian18]

Reagan is the one who allowed so much government spending and he wasn't the only one Roosevelt did too and need i remind everyone that more people died in Katrina then in Iraq so its not like that many people died in retrospect need i also remind everyone that this is one of the smallest and least costive wars in history granted 1 death is too much but seriously
NEED I REMIND EVERYONE WHY WE WENT TO WAR! THE TWIN TOWERS WERE DESTROYED AND THOUSANDS WERE KILLED THOSE BODIES OF WHICH ARE STILL BEING DUG UP THIS DAY! WE WENT TO WAR BECAUSE THEY DECLARED WAR ON US AL QUAEDA WAS BASICALLY IN CONROLE OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN THAT IS WHY WE WENT TO WAR AND ANYONE WHO DARES MENTION IT AGAIN HOW IT IS AN UNWINNABLE WAR MIGHT AS WELL GO TO IRAQ AND GIVE THE AL QUAEDA LEADER THE KEYS TO OUR NATION WE CAN'T JUST GIVE UP JUST A FEW DAYS AGO WE GOT MORE AL QUAEDA MEMBERS TAKEN OUT OH I FORGOT YOU ARE THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THAT 9/11 NEVER HAPPENED AND IT IS ONE BIG HOAX YOU ARE INSANE! nuff said.

[jebediah76]

I agree NYCkate

THey are terribly whiny - I was simply pointing out the differences between the Judicial filibuster and the conventional, run of the mill Filibuster.

The Fili is a tool of the minority - the debate was equating McConnell's fili to the judicial fili uproar the Reps caused a few years back. Its apples and oranges.

Judicial fili is sour grapes when either side does it. However, the threat of it might just be why Roe v. Wade has yet to be overturned- hell, if Dubya had no oposition he could have made Pat Robertson a supreme court judge! - so count your blessings.

[jeffk1623]

superdem

Not all hillbillies are ignorant and arrogant NEOCONs like Bush and company. I was born in KY and I agree with all your statements...

[netadmin1-2009]

fascistUSA -

If you don't like America, you can always move to Iraq.

[egresor]

dang superdem!

you're giving hillbilly's a bad name there!

ps
I was born in kentucky.

but you're right. the boil hasn't ripened yet. and absolutely right in saying that they have run this country into the ground. gave away all the money in government coffers to the rich. eased pollution laws and gotten us involved in several conflicts on top of that.

I hope the voters will remember what clinton had done for the economy and they destroyed in practically one fell swoop, but if nothing else americans are patriotic and stubbornly so. and the republicans know how to appeal to that patriotism....along with prejudices and devisive issues.

remember what gulliver's travels said:

"Care and Vigilance, with a very common Understanding, may preserve a Man's Goods from Thieves, but Honesty has no fence against superior Cunning"

and

"whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together"

:)

[nyckate]

jebediah76 - for 8 years of Clinton's presidency the GOP refused up-down vote of close to 70% of clinton's nomination - the GOP doesn't care about showing fairness - they are just a bunch of whiney, whingey bullies, then and now.

[book54552134]

Only a week into the new Congress & already radical Republicans are theatening to use their veto. An ominous sign.
It seems to me that, during the past 6 years, there were only a few times that meek & mild Senate Democrats threatened to use their power to filibuster & fewer still that they actually used that power.
This is simply another example of how these boldly aggressive Republicans & the Administration itself will thwart any Democratic efforts to block the Bush Administration's agenda. Between Dubya's veto power & the Senate Republican's aggressive use of the filibuster, the best that can be hoped for in the next 2 years is stalemate. For those who are fed up with the madness we have seen for the past 6 years, they will have to wait another 2 years for a true chance at significant change. It is the price we all must pay for allowing the political situation in this country to get so far out of whack.

[shedhouserob-2009]

M McConnel- Is he a Republican first, an American last. What's good for America. Here we have a president that will go down in history as a oil man (cheney's puppet) that got us in this war. It's Cheney's war! Mr. McConell you have a obligation as a American to do the right thing! Not party- To hell with Republicans and Democrats. Do what your suppose to as a American