So have your fun kicking Harry, but in the long run, he will prevail over Bush, unless, of course, we demand to have everything our way at once. The American people are not ready for that and won’t support that. We will prevail in time if we are united. Governing is a matter of getting to a consensus and that takes a little more time and a little more patience. Patience is a sign of maturity, something I find lacking in the current administration. You don’t hear the Democratic Senators who disagreed with Harry giving him a hard time, because they know they will have to work together tomorrow.

You should have listened to your caucus.

“How to vote on the bill before us is a very difficult and personal decision for each member of this body. There are many thoughtful members of my caucus who believe we should vote “NO” — and continue to vote “NO” — until the President and his supporters come to their senses.”

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but we need almost all the Democrats in the Senate and some Republicans to govern in an enduring and effective manner. Harry can do this if you give him some time to build a consensus.

Are a very naive outlook. It can never happen. What the best to do in the current situaltion was to stand strong, even in the face of a veto, and give the President the bill to sign WITH timetables of one sort or another.

They opted to do the spineless thing, and the republicans in the white house, and the neo con talking heads are joyously celebrating. And, they know, now, that they cant be beaten even when they are the minority in congress.

Yesterday will go down in history as the day that the democrats defeated themselves. We have no chance now, in 08. The tide, unfortunately, has turned because of naivety like yours, and of Harry Reids.

We had our chances, and blew it. Yesterday was the time to stand tall, in the face of all of America, and the world, and we crumbled. END OF STORY, END OF MAJORITY….

What Harry, and the others did yesterday was to guarantee the republicans a clean sweep in 08.

What they did yesterday can, and never will, be rectified.

They gave Bush and his cronies, and the rest of the fascist type pigs in the white house just what they need, 4 months to re organize and come out swinging.

I was part of the millions that voted in 2006 to give the Dems the majority, only to see them become the first majority top be ruled by the minority.

Only the spineless could allow that to happen.

As for the left wing critics of Harry here, I suggest they surf on over to Harry’s blog (giveemhellharry.com) and see the fire he is continually under from the other side.

On the positive side, the right wing is and will be giving up a lot to keep their war going. Every few months it will get harder and harder for them to do so. Eventually, they will no longer be able to do so. If they keep it up until 2008, the election will turn on that issue. The big picture is prying power out of the hands of those who got us into this war and keeping their hands off the levers of power for a long time.

I don’t like this war either, but patient work will bring this country around faster than you may think. This vote was a temporary compromise, but a future vote will be different. It is only a question of time, and not so much time at that.

Doesn’t anyone get it, the damage is done. What the hell does anyone expect will happen in four months, in September? Bush and his cronies will lie again, they will want it all over again, they will give up NOTHING, and all the good little republicans will fall in line as they always do.

Are our democratic leaders, like Pelosi and Reid, so frigging naive and dumb to think they will do better NEXT TIME? And, how many Americans will die in those four months? HOW MANY?

The time was NOW for action. We wont get the chance again. We have given them four months to cook their books, once again, to round their troops and to circle the wagons again….THIS WAS THE TIME, AND THE SPINELESS AND GUTLESS DEMS BLEW IT….

Senator Reid, YOU WERE WRONG, YOU BLEW IT, I CANT BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE AS NAIVE AS YOU HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE. YOU MAKE ME ASHAMED TO BE A DEMOCRAT.

A 68 year old Vet now living in Phoenix

And one that will NEVER give any democrat that voted for this bill my vote, ever again, and I will work to see that others, in other states, are unseated, and replaced with those democrats, of independents, that will do the will of the people, PERIOD, NO EXCUSES.

Even if you accept the proposition that one has to support the minimum wage to help the working poor:

If they cared so much, what took them so long to pass it, and why did they have to pork it up to get it passed?

“Although this is a very close call for me as I suspect it is for many Senators, I have decided to support this measure.”

No. It’s not YOUR decision. It’s the AMERICAN PEOPLE’S decision, and we already decided. You fail.

Look it up – Harry Reid has admitted that his mother worked in over a dozen whore houses. THAT is a FACT.

Apparently they didn’t get the message by the election in 2006. So, let’s give them the message now.

God I wish that Feingold and the other 14 would leave the Democratic party and start a new Progressive party. I would be one of the first to sign up and work like hell to get them elected.

Yeah, Hendler. I am certainly not defending traitor Reid but what the he!! does that have to do with this? I am pretty sure you are lying out of your a$$, as usual but I don’t really care. Republicans can tell us who their daddies are and yet they are all…every single one of them…whores.

Anyway, let’s all try not to get too bent out of shape over this. The reality is that this happened and there’s not much we can do but see what happens over the next few months. Heck, I’m threatening to go Green but there’s not even an election coming up anytime soon. :)

Anybody who still supports this screwup is insane.

This is about more of our kids getting killed in Iraq. For nothing.

We need to get the hell out of Iraq. Now.