The Democrats in Congress passed a funding bill with a withdrawal schedule. The President vetoed it. Everyone expected the Democrats to fold, to go back and pass a bill without any timetable. But, they didn't today negotiations between the White House and the Democrats are in negotiations.
Everybody is anticipating a new bill without time lines. Not if Pelosi wins. There will be a compromise. Bush may get his way, or perhaps the "pork" will be the bargaining chip. One or the other will be in the bill.
The Democrats will get reconstruction in New Orleans, or they will get the timetable. One will be put off, the other passed now. The one that gets put off will come up again and again. WE ARE GOING TO GET OUT OF IRAQ. EVEN BUSH KNOWS THAT. We will get out under his watch, and save some Republican power in the government, or we will get out in the next Administration with a Democrat Majority, larger than it is today in the House and Senate.
Politically Bush MUST accept the timetable. Philosophically he may oppose it, but It is going to be accepted, now, or in the future.
I call my self an analyst, but others say I'm a cynical critic. My response is always, "How can you be the one without being the other?". A friend, and true friend indeed, once gave the the combined form.
He said, and accurately, that I analyzed everything, and, inaccurately, enjoyed nothing. I enjoy analyzing, that's something, I have a grand time all the time, analyzing things into molecular pieces, I blast into a proposition, split it into component parts, and then take a laser scalpel to the pieces until sometimes what remains is only phonemes strung out on the tapestry. There is a test of skill remaining. Once broken down to component parts, putting the picture back together is a challenge. Sometimes the picture comes back from the process changed beyond recognition.
That is what has happened When Bush became President. The watch works got replaced. The flag was still the same, the constitution was replaced with a series of Executive Orders.
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