Who will be the last Republican to go down?
Time is running out for these Captain Ahab Republicans who are lashed to the White House Whale .. and willing to drown rather than contradict their incompetent leader.
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) -- the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee -- made a speech Monday on the Senate floor declaring that President Bush's Iraq plan isn't working and called for withdrawing most American forces.
He's not even waiting until September and Gen. Petraeus's report.
Lugar's speech can be read on his Web site: lugar.senate.gov
Could this Lugar speech be the tipping point that other Republicans have been waiting for to rush to the other side for political cover come November 08?
Because next, Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio spoke up .. said we need a change in policy and he's writing Bush a letter to urge him to embrace a Plan E (a plan for exit).
Sen. Lugar called for Bush to downsize our military's role in Iraq .. to move some troops to Kuwait and other nearby countries .. to keep a smaller number of troops in Iraq's Kurdish region, and areas outside Iraqi cities. Our military would continue to fight terrorists, train Iraqis and deliver economic aid .. BUT would STOP spinning their wheels in the middle of the bloody Iraq civil war.
Well well well .. now, when the right-wing media attacks Democrats for being partisan and unpatriotic on Iraq, we can direct them to Lugar's and Voinovich's comments.
Democrats who have had this position for the last couple of years have been called left-wing terrorist-lovin' loonies.
And these Republicans can talk the talk, but when it comes time to walk the walk .. will they fade away softly whistling?
Because wasn't it just a couple of weeks ago that Lugar voted in lockstep with the GOP against any attempt for Congress to check Bush's failed policy?
Anyway .. we'll take every anti-war Republican we can get ..
Too bad most of them are too chickenshit to capitalize on America's unhappiness with Bush's War.
The White House called Lugar yesterday and is going to send an official over to talk with him later in the week. Oooh .. a thug from Godfather Cheney's office no doubt.
I'm waiting for Sen. John Warner, R-Va. -- an influential Republican on military affairs -- to speak up. He's teetering on it .. and his voice would *really* carry weight. Warner called Lugar's speech "very helpful and constructive."
I just want us out of Iraq. Every Republican defector gets us closer to that goal. I have a vested interest in this -- we have a young Marine in our family who'll end up there very soon. We've already had one over there.
I want our kids home. It's like pulling teeth, but I'll take what I can get in getting enough votes to first stop a Senate filibuster, and then getting enough to override a veto.
More here: "Key GOP senator calls Bush Iraq strategy a failure"
