McConnell tries to wipe away McCain’s ‘100 years’ comment.
McConnell tries to wipe away McCain’s ‘100 years’ comment.
On the Senate floor today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that “one of the things that we will be debating this fall, Mr. President, is whether our troops need to be in Iraq for another 50 or 100 years.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) immediately took issue with Reid’s comment, saying “of course no one has said that.” “That’s a swipe at Senator McCain” and “a deliberate misrepresentation of what he has said,” which was “about troop deployments overseas, not the continued engagement in warfare.” Watch it:
But, as ABC News’s Jake Tapper points out on his blog, “Reid’s description was completely accurate: McCain said it would be fine with him if US troops were in Iraq indefinitely.” As Tapper puts it, “Republicans are trying to use the media condemnation” of some of the ways McCain’s remarks have been framed as “a blanket condemnation of any time anyone quotes McCain on the matter.”
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It’s hilarious to watch all of McCain’s fellow Senators jockey around propping up the old man.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:58 pmThey’re like a pack of dogs nipping playfully at the heels of the leader, waiting for the moment to rip him and each other to shreds the moment he goes down.
Hey, Mitch, why did you block the extension of the Protect AT&T Act? Do you really want to put the lives of Americans at risk? Why do you hate Americans, Mitch?
April 9th, 2008 at 8:00 pmIf only there was a modern technology available to us that could record sound and video images so that we could listen to and watch them at a later date. If only…
April 9th, 2008 at 8:03 pmBut, as ABC News’s Jake Tapper points out on his blog, “Reid’s description was completely accurate: McCain said it would be fine with him if US troops were in Iraq indefinitely.”
What’s up wi’ Tapper? Was he visited during the night by some Ghost of News Cycle Future?
April 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pmIt looks like McConnell has rabies foam around his mouth in the photograph. I’m hoping it is just my old computer.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pmFrom Frank Rich in yesterday’s NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2008/ 04/ 06/ opinion/ 06rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
…that Mr. McCain is “willing to send our troops into another 100 years of war in Iraq” (as Mr. Obama said) or “willing to keep this war going for 100 years” (per Mrs. Clinton) are flat-out wrong.
What Mr. McCain actually said in a New Hampshire town-hall meeting was that he could imagine a 100-year-long American role in Iraq like our long-term presence in South Korea and Japan, where “Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.”
Of course, a peacefull Iraq is a futuristic pipe dream.
As Mr. Rich Notes…Iraq’s sects have remained at each other’s throats since their country was carved out of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Perhaps magical thinking can bring peace to Israel and the Palestinians, too”
April 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pmMitch McChinless is attempting to excuse-make now for McStupid ; he’s had 7 + years of ‘practice’ at it with a similar imbecile……….
April 9th, 2008 at 8:06 pmmycatsmarterthanDubya Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pmApril 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
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I think it is just one of those “Got Milk” deals. What with all the bst, we have to dump that excess milk somehow. Don’t worry about those antibiotic residues from the increased mastitis. Antibiotic resistance requires that you believe that species evolve
Repeating the Senator’s own words is clearly a case of “liberal bias”./sarc off
April 9th, 2008 at 8:16 pmfrom swimming freestyle:
“And, truth be told, John McCain has offered no plan on how he would end that fighting in Iraq. He promises to continue the Bush Administration “patience is a virtue” policy: just wait however long it takes for the Iraqis to develop a stable and peaceful nation. That means a U.S. troop presence in a hostile environment and resulting casualties. Not at all like Germany and South Korea.
Without a strategy to either remove troops or the threat to those troops, Senator McCain’s policy is prey to the whims of people and circumstances we have absolutely no control over.
As soon as Senator McCain comes up with a plan to end the casualties, then we can talk about a 100 year presence. Until then, it’s all academic.”
http://swimmingfreestyle.typepad.com
April 9th, 2008 at 8:17 pmOn a related note, Sen. McPander Bear is going to cut the deficit by (you can’t make this stuff up) following Reagan’s example!
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/ 2008/ 04/ 09/ asked-about-the-economy-mccain-cites-reagans-example/
April 9th, 2008 at 8:41 pmMcConnell should look to his own career, parliamentary procedure doesn’t necessarily wrap up the vote.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:47 pmat the current rate of progress, ya might as well make it 200, Mitch.
April 9th, 2008 at 8:51 pmThe gop is rightfully scared that the democratic party will hammer mccain from now until the election. Kind of like the “flip flop” label the gop hammered kerry with.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:27 pmI love payback.
“It’s time for us to get serious and protect the companies that protect us,”
April 9th, 2008 at 9:31 pm—Mitch McConnell, on why he prefers Telecom Amnesty to the 4th Amendment
“That’s a direct quote of Senator McCain” and “a deliberate repetition of what he has said,”
There. I fixed it for you, Mitch.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:37 pmpete Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
On a related note, Sen. McPander Bear is going to cut the deficit by (you can’t make this stuff up) following Reagan’s example!
Pete that was a good one, I’m still laughing. Talk about the blind leading the blind. Reagoneconomics,, if I remember correctly.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:31 pmIraq War vet and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Paul Rieckhoff.
Rieckhoff when talking about McCain’s Iraq policy, had this to say:
It’s half-assed, it’s not going to work, he’s being inconsistent in supporting it, and yet still seems to support it for political reasons.
Just ask him what the difference is between Sunni and Shiite, and watch the blank stare and mental scrambling begin.
These statements pretty much sum up McCain and Foreign Policy in Iraq.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:43 pmHey Mitch,
April 10th, 2008 at 7:51 amYou’re Chicken-Hawk past is fixing to come back and bite you real bad in the coming months!
Do you have any comments “NOW” on the special treatment you received in the summer of ‘67 after graduating from Law School in May of ‘67,in evading the Draft?
Mitch, it would have been far easier to have been drafted,served 2 years,than catching all the bad publicity you’re fixing to receive! But you’re in a good place,surrounded by many Chicken-Hawks! You’ll have plenty of back-up and moral support from the rest in the U S CONGRESS, that are just like you!
mycatsmarterthanDubya Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
It looks like McConnell has rabies foam around his mouth in the photograph. I’m hoping it is just my old computer.
It’s not your computer. McConnell and Larry Craig just went to the restroom at the same time.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:17 am