WOW! AIR OF ACRIMONY AFFECTING BOTH PARTIES ENTIRE AGENDAS

[BigBearJohn]

Iraq War Debate Eclipses All Other Issues

After largely avoiding the subject since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lawmakers are suddenly confronting the issue of President Bush's handling of the war. The start hasn't been pretty.

Political stunts by both parties have created an air of acrimony that is infecting the parties' entire agendas. The bitterness reached a new high -- or low -- on Friday when House Republicans forced a late-night vote on a resolution for immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces.

The resolution failed, 403 to 3, but only after members nearly came to blows when a GOP newcomer suggested a veteran Democratic military hawk was a coward.

"Iraq is now a cloud over everything," said Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan political analyst specializing in Congress. "It's the 800-pound gorilla in the room."

"I feel like every morning, I wake up, get a concrete block and have to walk around with it all day," said first-term Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who came to the Senate with an ambitious agenda to overhaul Social Security and the tax code. "We can't even address the issues."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/19/AR2005111901249_pf.html

[FreedomAngel82]

1. Adress the issues only they care about

Like getting rid of social security and giving their wealthy friends more money.

[Erika]

2. Yeah, the GOP saying a Nam vet with 2 purple hearts is a coward

Damn them and everything they stand for.

[Lasher]

3. "I am a uniter, not a divider,"

When is the uniting going to start?

[otohara]

4. Who Put That 800 LB Gorilla In The Room Senator?

That would be the really, really irresponsible, reprehensible men in the White House.

[Rainscents]

5. Hi BBJ Thanks for the post!

:hi:

[BigBearJohn]

6. Hi Rainscents!

:toast:

[Fovea]

7. Well Jim

I am sure you'd feel lots better if you'd take that concrete block and go for a swim... Start in the deep end.

[BigBearJohn]

8. Thanks. Now THAT gave me a good chuckle.

[Erika]

9. The 800 pound Gorilla will stay there

Losing 2,100 troops for a needless war will demand that. Over 15,000 injured and maimed. Most think that takes priority.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. The Republicans have been pushing the acrimony

for years and years and years while the Dems have just stood there and taken it and tried to play nice only to get stabbed in the back repeatedly. But nobody ever noticed the acrimony then. Not when the Gingrich "revolution" swept in on acrimony. Not during the years long crucifixion of Clinton.

No, it's only now, that the Democrats have begun to stand up and put their feet down in response to the rape of this country and the continuous unremitting attacks against them, that the acrimony finally gets noticed.

Fuck the corporate media and their pro-Repuke filters.

[MissMarple]

11. This isn't a football game you're commenting on....you idiots.

Sometimes I wish I would just use the word ASSHOLES. Just call as they are....!!!

And, yes, I know that last comment was a loose reference to baseball.