BREAKING: Senators Levin and Warner have reached a deal on anti-escalation resolution!

[originalpckelly]

"Two senators leading separate efforts to put Congress on record against President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq joined forces Wednesday, agreeing on a nonbinding resolution that would criticize the plan.

Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., had been sponsoring competing measures opposing Bush's strategy of sending 21,500 more U.S. troops to the war zone, with Warner's less harshly worded version attracting more Republican interest. The new resolution would vow to protect funding for troops while keeping Warner's original language expressing the Senate's opposition to the troop buildup.

The resolution could well gain more support from members of both parties than Levin's and Warner's separate versions had been attracting. It lacks Levin's language saying the troop increase is against the national interest, and it drops an earlier provision by Warner suggesting Senate support for some additional troops.

'It's been a hard work in progress,' Warner said of his resolution, which has been struggling to win support of 60 senators so as to prevent a filibuster."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/01/31/national/w161425S67.DTL

[hlthe2b]

1. good... symbolic only, but it may just have more impact than

one might predict...

[originalpckelly]

3. Indeed, the Warner resolution is said to have a number of Republicans supporting it...

and it may get 70 votes! That's almost 20 Republicans!

[Jackpine Radical]

11. It IS 20 Puggies plus all 50 Dems.

No members of the Lieberman party are likely to sign on.

[eleny]

2. you knew they would

now the white house can start trying to twist arms.

[originalpckelly]

4. No, I think this is good, because it will cause all the other resolutions...

to fall by the wayside.

[eleny]

9. i think it's a good thing, too

and because it's good, the wh will start twisting arms.

[Nite Owl]

5. Will they have the votes

for cloture? Senator Smith is on Tweety and he just said something about how it is important to have this vote even if they don't have enought for cloture it would show a majority oppose the surge plan.

[originalpckelly]

6. I think so, because it has been said that around 70 Republicans...

supported the Warner resolution!

That's 20 Republicans, if bad ole Joe votes with the other side!

[imax2268]

7. Look how quick this

republitard is turning on Warner...one of their own...

http://www.azfamily.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21776

and then continues to spew the right wing rhetoric...

[Purveyor]

8. From the AP:

(01-31) 16:16 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --


Two senators leading separate efforts to put Congress on record against President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq joined forces Wednesday, reaching agreement on a nonbinding resolution that would criticize the plan.


Sens. John Warner, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., had been sponsoring competing measures opposing Bush's strategy of sending 21,500 more U.S. troops to the war zone, with Warner's less harshly worded version attracting more Republican interest. The new resolution would vow to protect funding for troops.


URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/01/31/national/w161425S67.DTL

[originalpckelly]

10. Thanks, I've updated the OP...

:hi: