Clark's advice to Democrats in Congress re: Iraq.

[Clarkie1]

Sounds pretty straightforward and sensible to me...(from Democracy Now! Amy Goodman interview, 3/2/07)

"Well, you start with a non-binding resolution in the United States Congress, and you build your momentum from there. And you keep hammering it. The Congress has three principal powers. It has the power to appoint, power to investigate, power to fund. And you go after all three. On all three fronts, you find out what the President needs, until he takes it seriously. I think it's a difficult maneuver to use a scalpel and say, “Well, we're going to support funding, but we’re not going to support funding for the surge,” because that's requiring a degree of micro-management that Congress can't do.

But you can certainly put enough squeeze on the President that he finally calls in the leaders of the Congress and says, “OK, OK, what's it going to take? I’ve got to get my White House budget passed. I’ve got to get thirty judges, federal judges, confirmed. I’ve got to get these federal prosecutors -- you know, the ones that I caused to resign so I could handle it -- they've got to get replacements in place. What do I have to do to get some support here?” I mean, it could be done. It's hard bare-knuckle government."

http://proctoringcongress.blogspot.com/2007/03/democracy-now-amy-goodman-interviews.html

[KT2000]

1. This is why he should be

PRESIDENT!! He thinks!

[FrenchieCat]

2. Looks like that's what it's gonna take....

some "hard bare-knuckle government".....