NBC's Chip Reid revived GOP "cut and run" line

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512070015



<snip>From the December 7 edition of MSNBC News Live, in which Reid reported on a "split" between House and Senate Democrats on plans to withdraw from Iraq:

REID: But on the other issue, on what to do about the troops in Iraq, you're going to see a bit of a split. And that has some Democrats concerned because Jack Reid {sic: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)} and most senators believe that the president has not been candid, he doesn't have a real plan for success, but they do not have a specific timetable for getting the troops out. But on the House side, Jack Murtha and Nancy Pelosi {D-CA}, the Democratic leader over there, agrees with him on this. He wants the troops -- Murtha wants the troops to come out now. He wants them to start coming out right away, and to be out within the next six months, keep some kind of smaller force in the region just in case. But it is a split between the -- among Democrats: mostly the Senate saying "we want a plan, but not a specific date," the House increasingly saying -- and Nancy Pelosi says more than half the Democrats in the House favor this plan of getting them out within six months. Some Democrats very concerned that in next year's elections they could be protrayed as the cut-and-run party if that Murtha/Pelosi position prevails.

Without having any control of any branch of government, what's it matter what the Democrats say should be done...there's no power to enact them. This is a game that needs to be turned back on Repugnicans and their spinners.

It's time to firmly call this a Repugnican war...not just booosh's...but his entire party, as they have enabled this invasion and occupation and have benefitted from it. It's their mess and it's their responsibility to either admit mistakes and fix things or shut the fuck up. I suspect neither will occur, so our job will just be to take each episode of their lies of hypocrisies and just ram them back in their faces.

The corporate media wants partisan divides...the bigger, the nastier the better as it means ratings. They know there's a lot of angry people in this country and they're doing their best to throw gasoline on the fire for their own power and profit.