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 Post subject: Dems Move To The Middle
 Post Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:30 am 
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So much for the mandate they said they had.


Democratic leaders in Congress have decided to shift course and pursue modest bipartisan measures to alter U.S. military strategy in Iraq, hoping to use incremental changes instead of aggressive legislation to break the grip Republicans have held over the direction of war policy.

Standing against them will be President Bush, who intends to use a prime-time address tonight to try to ease concerns that his Iraq strategy will lead to an open-ended military commitment.

Both efforts share a single target: a handful of Republican moderates in the Senate whose votes the Democrats need to overcome the threat of a GOP filibuster. Should enough Republican moderates sign on to a compromise measure, Democrats could finally pass legislation aimed at changing direction of the war.


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No surprise to me. The Left wasn't working for them. :lol:

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They really did not give it a chance to work. With their first defeat, they tucked their ballos into their purses and gave in to the Pres.

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