Posted by
Dawnsblood on Friday, January 19, 2007 9:55:38 PM
It only takes
40 or 41 in the Senate...
It is against this backdrop that Congressional Republicans, and
especially GOP senators, have to prepare for a combined MSM-Democratic
activist assault on them, an assault which has already turned two
--Hagel and Snowe-- into retreatists. The ominous word that Senator
Warner is circulating a "compromise" draft of a non-binding resolution
brings immediately to mind the disastrous "compromise" resolution of
December, 2005 that Senator Warner midwifed, which dealt a huge blow to
the Adminstration and divided the president's supporters. Even though
the president did his best to put lipstick on that pig, the damage done
by the attempt to "compromise" with the anti-war Democrats was doomed,
just as this effort would be.
We have quickly arrived at a moment where the sides are going to
line up, and Republicans on the wrong side of that line --and that
would include so-called "compromises" that are in fact slow motion
retreats-- will not only not get support from the GOP base, they will
see a revolt in their re-election campaigns like the one which Lincoln
Chafee encountered.