Breaking: Reid Yanks Defense Authorization Bill To Force GOP's Hand

[Richard Tafoya]

TPM:
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jul/18/breaking_reid_yanks_defense_authorization_bill_to_force_gops _hand

Ratcheting up the stakes in the wake of the GOP's successful blocking of a vote on Iraq withdrawal just moments ago, Harry Reid just announced on the Senate floor that he won't allow a vote on the entire Defense Authorization bill until the Senate GOP drops its filibustering of votes on Iraq.


The move is significant because it could hold up the funding of the Pentagon's fiscal 2008 priorities until the standoff is resolved.


It comes only moments after the Republican filibuster succeeded in preventing a vote on the Reed-Levin amendment, which would have mandated withdrawal by April 2008.

[Venisenvy]

I am tired of all of Washington both the democrats and republicans are really making me sick. We are a country run by little kids....

[Annoyedlistner]

I am tired of all of Washington both the democrats and republicans are really making me sick. We are a country run by little kids....

Yes it is...but honestly right now the Democratic party is trying to bring home our men and women from a war that is failing and that we shouldnt have started to begin with. Right now the Republican party refuses to even allow a vote on the issue.

The republican party is full of nothing but scum bags.

[pinky]

I'd have to say the the Democrats are about three-quarters full of the same, Joey.

Politicians, as a rule, no matter how they start out, end up being not very good people. There are exceptions, but that's the problem, they are exceptions, not the norm.