Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday postponed for at least a week action on a Democratic plan to rewrite the 2002 congressional resolution authorizing the war, imposing new wartime restrictions on the administration.
Sen. Ben Nelson, a conservative Democrat from Nebraska, said the new Democratic strategy could unfairly hamstring the president and military commanders. "I think it is very difficult to start changing things after the fact and still avoid micromanaging the war."
And Sen. Russ Feingold, a liberal Democrat from Wisconsin, criticized the latest Democratic strategy as too timid and toothless in stopping the war. Approving a new authorization resolution would be the same "as voting for a new Iraq war and that I am not going to do."
This is the problem with the Democratic party, they are not united in their goals and aspirations. Some Democrats would like to cut funding for the war, others want a time table et cetera. In order to achieve anything Democrats need to come together under one banner. Their disunion is only going to hurt them in the long run.
What do you think?
3 comments:
But you must remember, Reuben, that the Democratic Party is the party of diversity and debate - they are all the same. They are not programmed robots that all believe the same thing, like the Republicans.
correction, the members of the Demcratic Party are all not the same...
ian,
you failed to hear the point, political parties need to stick together, their disunion will only weaken them.
while all people have different opinions, publicly its unwise to rant and rave about them.
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