CNN: Dean says Democrats united behind Warner/Levin resolution: "Not watered down"

Thursday, February 01, 2007
Dean says Democrats united behind Warner/Levin resolution

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean brushed aside a suggestion that Democrats were split on the bipartisan Senate resolution condemning the Iraq troop increase in Iraq, and told CNN Thursday the measure will send a strong message to the White House.

"You're going to see a unified vote, I think you're going to see unified Democrats," Dean told CNN's Wolf Blitzer about the party's support of the compromise resolution sponsored by Sens. John Warner, R-Virginia, and Carl Levin, D-Michigan.

Dean also said the new bipartisan resolution is not a weaker version of the one originally supported by Levin, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska.

"The resolution is not watered down," Dean said. "They changed a few words; I think this is a very smart move on the part of Harry Reid. If we can get significant numbers of Republicans to repudiate the Republican president's policy, which is about to -- about what's about to happen, then I think that's very, very positive."

Two Democrats -- Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Sen. Russ Feingold if Wisconsin have come out against the resolution, saying it does not go far enough in affecting a change in policy.

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2007/02/dean-says-democrats-united-behind.html

They've indicated they will vote no.

We can all be right. Dean's right because this vote will have powerful symbolic value, and Feingold and Dodd are right that it doesn't do enough. So let's make the Rape-Publicans eat this vote, then let's come back and shove something meatier down their criminal throats for dessert.

Waddaya say?

NGU.

majorities-at least 55 and usually more. This "majority thing" is truly fun!

sounds coherent in their transcripts.

Faux lite. MKJ

edited to add: and Dr. Dean is sounding good, as usual. :loveya:

"DEAN: No, this is not a problem. The Democrats, in fact, are not split. And the resolution is not watered down. They changed a few words.

I think this s a very smart move on the part of Harry Reid. If we can get significant numbers of Republicans to repudiate the Republican president's policy, which is about to happen, then I think that's very, very positive.

Look, we're doing what Americans elected us to do. The American people do not believe we belong in Iraq. The president is going in exactly the opposite direction that the American people asked him to go to. It's not a surprise to me that any United States senator, Republican or Democrat, might want to listen to their constituents before they listen to a president who's taking us in the wrong direction, despite what the American people voted for.

So, I think you're going to see a unified vote. I think you're going to see unified Democrats.

The question will be, which I'm not going to go into and speculate about, but the question will be, what happens when the House and the Senate disavow the president's wrong-headed actions in Iraq, ask him not to do it, and he does it anyway? Then I think you're going to see more discussions about what the alternatives are in addition to this.

But this is first step, it's the right step. Again, I think both Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are doing exactly the right thing on the right timetable, and I think you're going to see overwhelming Democratic support for these resolutions condemning the president's actions in Iraq to escalate the war."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/01/sitroom.02.html

They are saying their side is giving in, and they are starting a phone campaign...last I heard Hugh Hewitt was up to 30,000. And MoveOn is over 700,000 last I heard.

Now that is truly pathetic.

One of them quoted Dean from CNN and said they were being lied to by their side. I love it when he pisses the right wing off.

"Thursday, February 01, 2007
Forfeiting The Legacy of Reagan: Howard Dean Declares Victory
Posted by Hugh Hewitt | 7:16 PM
Talking to Wolf Blitzer today, Howard Dean stripped away the cover for Republicans supporting the Levin-Warner resolution:

"The resolution is not watered down," Dean asserted. "They changed a few words: I think this is a very smart move on the part of Harry reid. If we can get significant numbers of Republicans to repudiate the Republican president's policy, which is about to --about what's about to happen, then I think that's very, very positive."

Meanwhile, John McCain has authored a new resolution that has the support of John Cornyn, Joe Lieberman and others. It still uses the "benchmark" language, but the wording is not available yet.

Contact republican leadership in the House and Senate and tell them its not what they think they are doing that matters, it is what the world understands them to be

Then contact info is given....poor righties.