NYT Edit: Senate cast a vote of no confidence this week

[kpete]

Editorial
A Timetable for Mr. Bush
Published: November 17, 2005

No matter how the White House chooses to spin it, the United States Senate cast a vote of no confidence this week on the war in Iraq. And about time.

Republican leaders, who supported the proposal, argued that the vote was a repudiation of a Democratic motion to set possible withdrawal deadlines for American troops. But the proposal would never have gone to the floor if members of President Bush's party had not felt the need to go on the record, somehow, as expressing their own impatience with the situation.

President Bush has lost the confidence of the American people, and his own party, when it comes to handling Iraq. If he wants to win it back, he must come up with a very clear road map for what he expects, both politically and militarily, from the Iraqi government. If the Iraqis fail to meet those goals, he must demonstrate that the price of equivocation is American withdrawal.

If the president fails, the American public has a timetable of its own. Elections for the House and the Senate are less than a year away.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/17/opinion/17thu1.html?hp

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. tick tick tick

The sole reason the repukes did this was to cover their backsides. What we need to do is to hold them to it--demand the accounting that is asked for in this bill. If the repukes did nothing, we need to slam this bill and their vote back in their faces next year, and call them out on it.

[stray cat]

2. The republican held senate cast a vote of no confidence

in a republican administration. Maybe republican senators will start thinking independently instead of acting like a bunch of mindless clones.