Majority Whip Clyburn: Progress In Iraq May Be Devastating To Democrat Defeatism

Ken McCracken • July 31, 2007

An amazing amount of partisan cynicism, no?

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a strongly positive report on progress on Iraq by Army Gen. David Petraeus likely would split Democrats in the House and impede his party’s efforts to press for a timetable to end the war.
Clyburn, in an interview with the washingtonpost.com video program PostTalk, said Democrats might be wise to wait for the Petraeus report, scheduled to be delivered in September, before charting next steps in their year-long struggle with President Bush over the direction of U.S. strategy.
Clyburn noted that Petraeus carries significant weight among the 47 members of the Blue Dog caucus in the House, a group of moderate to conservative Democrats. Without their support, he said, Democratic leaders would find it virtually impossible to pass legislation setting a timetable for withdrawal.

That a positive report from Petraeus would be good for both America and Iraq has apparently escaped Rep. Clyburn’s attention.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics, The Loony Left, War On Terror

http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

The only reason this “person” represents SC is because of the liberal court’s ruling on race. His district runs from the Atlantic Ocean through all the predominantly “black” populations, sometimes splitting cities along the way.
Pitiful. I remember this lightweight back in the 60s.
Osama Obama

Good opportunity for a lesson in casual Democrat friendly media bias:

“year-long struggle with President Bush over the direction of U.S. strategy”

First of all, the ONLY “direction” Democrats have advocated, EVER, is out of Iraq. Also, They’ve been “struggling with Bush” since at least November 17th 2005 when (right before 12 million Iraqis voted in a representative government according to the constitution they’d recently voted to ratify) that shit stain on humanity, Murtha D-Surrender, became a media media darling by sternly advocating withdrawal from Iraq. Later, Murtha admitted to fearing the “appearance of victory” and ever since he’s been a troop-slandering dirt bag defeatist of the highest order, but he was not the first on the left or even the first elected Democrat to demand withdrawal. He was just one that was given absolute moral authority by a outrageously biased press.

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