[Peace-discuss] Filibuster compromise

[C. G. Estabrook]

>From today's NYT:

..."The only reason he's still up there in the 40's is that the Democrats
are really brain dead and have nothing positive to put on the table," said
one veteran Republican who has close ties to the White House, referring to
approval ratings in polls that are at or near Mr. Bush's low points...

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/politics/24assess.html?pagewanted=all>

The fact is that the Democrats are straining at the filibuster gnat and
swallowing the Iraqi camel, because they agree with the Republicans that
swallowing the camel is a good idea. After the 100-0 vote in the Senate
to pay current expenses for the war, the US is building four more huge
permanent bases in Iraq -- a Fort Apache strategy, the Indian Wars being
the US military's guiding image (as it was in Vietnam). --CGE