Oh Dickie, the transition from White House consultant to freelance foot licker to Townhall ironist has truly diminished your powers.
Hillary has also opened the door to massive criticism by embracing "engagement" and calling for a Mid-East regional conference – obviously including Iran – to settle the war.
These positions put her at odds with those who see a nuclear Iran as threatening Israel's and America's future and who demand tough economic and, if necessary, military action to stop it.
How can you boycott or bomb a country and then "engage" with them?
Now I'm no fan of Hillary's but one cannot let the obvious go unprovoked. We boycotted Iraq and then bombed the livin' bejeezus out of those suckers before engaging them and look how well that turned out. According to the Republicans on the floor of the House last week, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and the other paid drummers tell us that's been a success. Even David Limbaugh's sure that the only thing that stands between the U.S. and winning in Iraq are the recently elected Democrats. If it wasn't for them, the war would have been won back in 2005... or something. That and they're not supporting the troops and unwilling to continue to fund the efforts already underway.
Why is it so hard for these people to tell the truth? Republicans didn't shut down debate. They did the opposite. They refused to allow cloture on the resolution because Democrats refused to allow consideration of other proposals. It is their way or the highway.
Republicans were quite willing to allow a vote on the Democrats' resolution if Democrats would have permitted a vote on the Republican's resolution pledging not to de-fund the troops in Iraq. But Democrats refused because the GOP resolution would have compelled Democrats to take a more meaningful stand and prevented them from having it both ways on the issue.
HCON 63 EH 110th CONGRESS 1st Session H . CON . RES . 63 CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That--
(1) Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect the members of the United States Armed Forces who are serving or who have served bravely and honorably in Iraq; and
(2) Congress disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.
Passed the House of Representatives February 16, 2007.
One-sided debate's are easier when you ignore the facts.