McConnell: Why adopt amendments if they provoke * to veto them?

So don't vote on anything concrete unless the rethugs have approval from the dim one. Got it. :argh:

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqm/cqmidday110-000002548569.html

Senate in Standoff Over Iraq Amendments to Defense Bill

The Senate refused Wednesday to limit debate on the first amendment to the fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill, digging in along largely partisan lines over whether to tell President Bush how to wage the war in Iraq.

By 56-41, senators refused to invoke cloture on an amendment by Jim Webb, D-Va., that sought to require specific minimum intervals between deployments of U.S. troops. The final tally was four short of the 60 votes needed.

Seven Republicans voted to limit debate — Norm Coleman, Minn., Susan Collins, Maine; Chuck Hagel, Neb.; Gordon H. Smith, Ore.; Olympia J. Snowe, Maine; John E. Sununu, N.H., and John W. Warner, Va. So did all 48 Democrats present and one independent, Bernard Sanders of Vermont. Independent Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut voted “no.”

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto the defense bill (HR 1585) if the Webb amendment was adopted, or any other amendment that would set timetables for a withdrawal or dictate missions for the U.S. forces deployed in Iraq.

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said it was pointless to adopt amendments to the defense bill that will provoke a Bush veto.

But Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said exhausted troops and a public fed up with the war “deserve more than expressions of disapproval. Our votes, not our voices, will prove whether our resolve is firm and whether we are prepared to lead.”

:puke:

:thumbsup:

a question that perhaps someone can answer. When or how does the senate determine that it takes 60 votes to get something passed? What about the majority vote or the tie that the VP would break? Cloture is ???????????

one part PR pablum and the rest total bullshit.

I hope Kentucky voters turn out in droves in 08 to sweep him from office. He's added next to nothing, near as I can tell.

Of the two Kentucky senators, I much prefer Jim Bunning, who at least has the grace to have no idea whatsoever where he is at any given moment.

Not just McConnell's seat, but the governorship is also up for grabs.

:kick::kick: