{"id":512,"date":"2007-11-16T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2007-11-16T16:37:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T21:37:31","slug":"what-a-difference-a-few-days-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"What a difference a few days makes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 13th, Harry Reid said <a href=\"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=507\">that Democrats won\u2019t approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, they took a vote, and the bill lost, 53 in favor and 47 against, because of course Harry Reid would never think of forcing the Republicans to actually filibuster. (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071116\/ap_on_go_co\/us_iraq;_ylt=AiRjg7ZKQFdqL3GzHuZMBWKs0NUE\">Democrats unable to bring <\/a>troops home):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Frustrated by Republican roadblocks, Democrats now plan to sit on President Bush&#8217;s $196 billion request for war spending until next year \u2014 pushing the Pentagon toward an accounting nightmare and deepening their conflict with the White House on the war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Democratic leaders say they won&#8217;t send President Bush a war spending bill this year. They calculate the military has enough money to run through mid-February.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When will the Democrats learn that you don&#8217;t play chicken if everyone knows you&#8217;ll be the first to chicken out. Now they are practically announcing that they will wait until next year to cave. Do they really think Bush cares? He knows he&#8217;ll get his money, along with another blank check. <\/p>\n<p>In the real world, when someone is frustrated by a road block, the only effective response is to get rid of the road block. That sort of thing never occurs to the Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 13th, Harry Reid said that Democrats won\u2019t approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home. Today, they took a vote, and the bill lost, 53 in favor and 47 against, because of course Harry Reid would never think of forcing the Republicans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-iraq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}