The GOP’s Base Moves, New Blog Feature, OPEN THREAD
By SusanUnPC on September 20, 2007 at 5:13 PM in Current Affairs, Democrats, Republicans, Soldiers/Veterans
The GOP’s Base Moves: It’s clear the GOP will make the most base moves to secure votes from the GOP base before the primaries. Let’s play too. TPM’s David Kurtz writes this morning: “After blocking measures on habeas corpus and Iraq yesterday, Senate Republicans will seek to condemn MoveOn’s Petraeus ad today. Sen. Barbara Boxer has proposed an alternative resolution that includes condemnations on other political attack ads, too, including on John Kerry in 2004 and Max Cleland in 2002.” (Sen. Boxer, please. For the sack of clarity and the hardest punch, just pick one. I choose the reprehensible ads comparing the Vietnam war amputee Max Cleland to bin Laden. Any mention of Kerry’s ads will reopen the Swiftboat debate and reinvigorate the GOP base.)
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P.S. More from Kurtz’s post at TPM:
Late Update: No word on whether there is a statute of limitations on congressional condemnation of attack ads.
Later Update: Reid and Levin to vote against GOP resolution and support Boxer alternative.
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Rant on.
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I hope someone, someday, can explain to me why Sen. John Warner abandoned his fellow Virginian Jim Webb yesterday. He’d promised Webb he’d support Webb’s “Dwell Time” amendment that failed yesterday, four votes shy of succeeding.
Leslie and I had a good e-mail exchange about it. On its face, it makes no sense. I want to know what happened.
Last night’s NYT story says Warner met with “senior military officials” earlier yesterday, and that changed his mind. Who were they? What did they say? Did he tell Webb? Did he give Webb a chance to counter the “officials”?
And, as Leslie pondered in her e-mail last night, was John McCain really lying when he said, on the floor of the Senate, that Sen. John Warner was a co-author of his B.S. alternative amendment on troop rotational cycles? (McCain’s amendment was simply a restatement of current administration policy, and quite clearly a move by McCain to get in the spotlight.) On the Senate floor, Webb told McCain that Warner wasn’t a sponsor, and thereafter McCain retracted his statement. But Leslie wonders if Warner indeed had a hand in McCain’s amendment which, by the way, also failed.
I can only imagine how Webb must have felt when Warner abandoned him yesterday. Those two, from all reports I’ve seen (and I don’t read Virginia newspapers regularly), have gotten along very well, and are very deferential to each other. They cooperate. Clearly, that’s not true anymore.
From my sense of Webb, he’ll continue to try to cooperate with Warner. Because Webb is honorable. He’s respectful of both Warner’s seniority and stature, and he is cognizant that the people of Virginia are served best when their two senators work together. But yesterday’s events surely will stick in his craw.
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