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Date: 2006-11-08 08:41 pm (UTC)On the political side, this announcement is the first shot across the bow of the new Democratic controlled senate: They were elected in large part due to their opposition to the Iraq War. Now, they will be on record as voting for (or against) the new guy who will run it. The GOP candidate in 2008 can use that vote as a political cudgel, as Bush used the Dems support of the resolution on Iraq,
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Date: 2006-11-09 05:53 pm (UTC)My two centavos: I think GWB is actually relieved at this point. He did his R "duty" by playing to the base, supporting all the R candidates (any who'd have him on their hustings, that is *schnort*) and doing what he could to hang on to the R majority in Congress. So he can say now, and truthfully, "I did all I could, but the people have spoken differently" and so change course. I mean, really--what could the neocons DO to him now? Not support his next campaign? No campaign! Not support his veep in the traditional foregone-conclusion next candidate? He's not running! (Thank goodness.)
To me, it's not just the country's voters who've thrown off (or have well begun to) the heavy hand of the far right agenda; this president has just been enabled to throw it off himself as well. The way I see it, the neocon powerbase just got waaaaaay diluted. It's now useless to pressure this prez; not that there won't be some effort to, but they've just really lost the last handle they had on him. The point at which I became convinced that this might be the case? When he was asked if the shift in Congress meant his immigration policies might get another chance, and this time win? He just smiled and said, "Yep."
HA. If that happens, I will go to my knees giving thanks for every person who had the courage and the compassion to fix one of the greatest injustices this country still sanctions. I may be going against the grain of the folks hanging out here, but one of the people whose compassion and courage I'll give thanks for will be the Prez. On this issue. Yes.
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Date: 2006-11-09 03:57 am (UTC)The confirmation hearings for Robert Gates should be fun.