Posted by
cehwiedel on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:32:44 PM
Senator Dianne Feinstein went on CNN's
Late Edition to rebuke Senate Republicans for voting against cloture on the Levin-Warner sense-of-the-Senate resolution regarding the conduct of the war in Iraq. Keep in mind that what the Republicans did was to (mostly) vote in a block
against closing debate and bringing the matter to a vote.
What Senator Feinstein accused them of was:
"It's
obstructionism. This is not tolerable in a situation where it's the
number one topic in the nation, and the Republican party prevents the
Senate of the United States from debating."
On the one hand, you have Greg at Greg's List agreeing with Senator Feinstein about the poor behavior of Senate Republicans in refusing debate; and on the other hand you have JMK at Working Class Conservative pointing out the heads-I-win, tails-you-lose tactics of the Democrats.
It is not becoming behavior by the senior Senator from California to accuse her Republican colleagues of preventing debate, when they voted to keep debate open.
To be accurate, she should have accused them of blocking a vote on the resolution — that they are guilty of, and good for them.
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