Democrat Congress Fail on Every Issue… Lame duck Congress

Here’s a story:

“Democrats Look Ahead as Veto Override Falters — With little expectation of overriding President Bush’s veto, Democrats in Congress said Wednesday that they would pass a new bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children, but were willing to tweak it to address some White House concerns.”

What do you mean, they’re “willing to tweak it“? They lost this.

The president has vetoed their bill, and they don’t have the votes to override it. “Many Republicans argue that the vetoed bill would allow coverage of children from middle- and upper-income families and of adults and some illegal immigrants. Democrats reject such criticism, but say they will consider revising the bill to make its restrictions and prohibitions clearer.”

Really? They have no choice, ladies and gentlemen, if they want the bill. They’ve just been told that their way is not going to happen.

The Republicans are holding on this. They’re going to make it a little clearer that this will not apply to middle-class and upper-class children. In fact, there’s a great quote here from Sen. Harry himself. In the Senate, “he might be willing to ‘tweak something’ in the bill to help the president ‘save face.’“

Now, that is just laughable. That’s hilarious. Save face? Save face? Senator Reid, do you understand, it is you who needs to come up with something fast to save face. The president has just skunked you again, and the Republicans have just beaten you back again.

“We’re going to help the president save face on this.” They’re really concerned here that the president’s going to look bad in the eyes of parents who have children who may not be covered by this, and so the Democrats want to make sure the president saves face — and, of course, the Media report this without even one tinge of incredulity.

Oh, by the way, latest CBS News poll released yesterday found overwhelming support for expansion of the program to include some middle-class, uninsured children. This flies in the face of the USA Today/Gallup poll we had earlier in the week which says just the opposite.

Now, which poll are we gonna believe? You know these elected officials run and rule their lives with polls. If this CBS poll were accurate, the president’s veto would be overridden, because they would interpret the poll as meaning that’s what the American people want. They could throw this poll out.

This is the Los Angeles Times: “Democrats Put Heat on Pelosi Over Genocide Bill.“ A supreme failure of congressional leadership. Jack Murtha says to Pelosi, “You’ve miscalculated your support on this,” and the Democrats are clueless on the merits of it when they signed it.
To continue “top Democrats are leaning on Pelosi.” Murtha “said party leaders miscalculated support for the measure.”

Of course, they did! They hold average people in contempt. They do not yet understand that most Americans don’t want to lose the war in Iraq. When Americans found out that this genocide resolution against Turkey was going to have a negative impact on US military personnel in combat, they let Washington know about it. That’s what Murtha’s talking about: “We miscalculated this.”

Murtha said that a number of lawmakers who signed on as cosponsors “didn’t have a clue what it was all about.“

Then yesterday in his press conference, the president accused the Democrats of achieving little on Capitol Hill. He threw down the gauntlet to Pelosi and Reid. Remember, this guy is the lame duck.

He said, “You haven’t done squat.” He didn’t use those words. He said, “You haven’t done squat,” and, you know, Pelosi is just livid about this. She claims the president’s being “partisan,” and just making all kinds of mistakes on this.

The LA Times: “Chill Cast on US-Russia Relations.“ Once again, Bush rubbed the Democrats’ noses in the Iraq war debate that they lost recently. He said, “Well, we’ve found some common ground,” and Pelosi seethed! You know, Bush is throwing out this olive branch, and Pelosi seethes over the notion that they’ve found common ground. She “called Bush’s attack ‘partisan.’ This is an example of the president claiming to seek common ground at the same time he’s bitterly attacking Congress.'”

This is surreal.

The Washington Post:“Senate and Bush Agree on Terms of Spying Bill.“

The Democrats have totally collapsed on the FISA Bill. The ACLU, on page three, is calling what happened to the Democrats “a total meltdown. … The collapse marked the first time since Democrats took control of the chamber that a major bill was withdrawn from consideration before a scheduled vote. It was a victory for President Bush, whose aides lobbied heavily against the Democrats’ bill and an embarrassment for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had pushed the measure’s passage.“

Everything they are trying is falling apart. Everything. They have done nothing. It is they who need to “save face.“

And look at the Media – they are just beside themselves over the Democrats’ inability to get anything done.

ROBACH: It happened with war legislation, and now it looks like it will happen again with children’s health care. The president takes a stand, the Democrats promise a fight, but in the end, the president comes out on top.

FOREMAN: Democrats at several levels of government are stumbling.

CUOMO: Democrats appear headed for defeat in the battle over expanding children’s health insurance.

HUME: This looks like kind of an embarrassing defeat for the leadership

BLITZER: House Democrats may be losing yet another battle, this one over domestic spying.

YELLIN: Republicans are crowing and Democrats are trying to figure out what to do next.

BASH: A rebellion among Pelosi’s own Democrats…

FRANKEN: Such a political debacle for the Democrats…

COURIC: Why aren’t these things getting done?

CAFFERTY: You know, Ray Charles could have seen that was a stupid idea from the beginning. You’re just doing a great job, Pelosi. Terrific.

The fact that they can’t get anything done is not a reflection on Bush, as far as the Media is concerned. It’s not a reflection on the House or Senate Republicans. It’s a reflection on the Democrats.

“Why can’t they get anything done?” When the Democrats lose elections, for the next two years all we hear about in the Media is, “What do the Democrats have to do to get control of the House back? What do they have to do to win the White House?” As though the norm, the standard operating procedure, is Democrats running everything.

It’s hilarious to watch this.

They literally are focused on destroying Bush, and the Democrats in Washington are the same way. Now, here’s Murtha. We continue on with the theme of Democrats in disarray. Yesterday at a Capitol Hill press conference, he just cuts the legs out of Pelosi.

MURTHA: I must have had 25, 30 members, Democrats, come to me yesterday and say, you know…very agitated about this coming to the floor right now, they — they have gotten the message. So I would say if we were to run today, wouldn’t pass. She feels morally committed to this issue. It’s just that, uh, uh, uh, it’s impractical at this point to — to go forward with it.

Why is that, Congressman Murtha?

Why is it “impractical…to go forward“?

Is it just because it can’t pass, or is it because some of you Democrats finally figured out exactly what this bill was, or was it because you got bombarded with phone calls and e-mails again from people who saw what you were trying to do — and that is, undercut victory in the Iraq war?

Murtha then continued.

MURTHA: We need every ally we can get. They’re important to on our effort in Iraq. We got 160,000 troops in Iraq. This is important to the US effort in Iraq. Period.

Well, hallelujah! We finally got a little truth here.

Murtha says, “We got 160,000 troops there. We need every ally we can get.” We don’t need to go running them off. That’s exactly what the Democrats wanted to do. Now, I made the statement the other day that there had to be some adults in there somewhere that realized this was going to destroy them even more than they already are destroyed, or damage them even more than they’re damaged — and Murtha’s comment here tends to indicate that.

Here’s Pelosi. This is what she said yesterday after it became clear that the Turkey-Armenia resolution had fallen short.

PELOSI: Whether it will come up or not or, what the reaction will be, remains to be seen.

Right. Well, just three days before that she was on Stephanopoulos‘ show and said this.

PELOSI: I said if the — if it passed the committee, that we would bring it to the floor.

Yeah. Well, it passed the committee, and you didn’t get it to the floor, and everything that they have tried has just been an abysmal failure.

So they are in disarray, and we all know why they’re in disarray, because the things that they’re attempting to do are not right. Just in a decent world sense, right versus wrong, the things they’re trying to do are wrong. They are harmful if they were to pass, damaging and harmful to this country’s national security.