Iraq bill: House Dems let off the leash!
by skeptic06, Tue Mar 13, 2007 at 04:59:03 PM EDT
The latest despatch from the Hill (dated tomorrow) makes my head hurt.
It starts where it means to go on:
House Democratic leaders will not whip the Iraq supplemental spending bill, on grounds they don't want to apply political pressure on a matter of war and peace."It's a conscience vote," House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said after yesterday's Democratic Caucus meeting. But he added his office had begun to "survey" members now that more are looking at the 170-page bill.
"Have we got the 218 votes to pass it? I don't know," Clyburn said.
Hold on one cotton picking minute! you might be some justification cry, having read over the weekend the gaudy Post story of leadership torture-chambers persuading the Progs to back the toothless bill they despise.
(Or read my piece on it, at any rate.)
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