In discussing the resolution passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee expressing disagreement with President Bush, CBS’s "Early Show" only featured sound clips from senators who voted for the measure, including from Senator Chuck Hagel, the lone Republican on the panel to vote for it. There was no video of any of the nine Republicans who voted against the proposal. Though many of these nine oppose President Bush’s troop surge, they view a non-binding resolution to be the wrong tool to express this.
CNN’s "American Morning," however, recognized the differences of opinion on the panel. They aired footage of Indiana Senator and ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee Richard Lugar, who opined:
"We are laying open our disunity without the prospect that the vehicle will achieve meaningful changes in our policy. This vote will force nothing on the president."
And the CNN morning program also featured comments from Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who, while voting against the non-binding measure, expressed her disapproval of the troop increase:
"I happen to disagree with the President on the surge. I don't believe that that is the most effective way for us to move forward at this point in time. Do I feel disloyal in saying that? No."
While the President’s plan to increase troops in Iraq may not be overly popular among Republicans, most feel that the resolution passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday is an equally bad idea. Yet, these viewpoints were not presented in CBS’s coverage.
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Lugar is a tremendous disappo
January 25, 2007 - 16:11 ET by Prester JohnLugar is a tremendous disappointment and Murkowski, with her vast military experience, is an idiot.
And these are the people on "our" side who should know better.
Sigh.
The Chicken Little Republican
January 25, 2007 - 16:37 ET by Chris NormanThe Chicken Little Republicans are out in force. This gives me flashbacks to the Seventies. If these gutless wonders are to be the public face of Congressional Republicans for the next few years, I sense we're going to have a long spell of wandering, lost, in the electoral desert.
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
All we can do is run true con
January 25, 2007 - 16:44 ET by Prester JohnAll we can do is run true conservatives like Twomey and Laffey in the primaries, but the problem is who would want to run knowing all they would get is a stab in the back by the state and national GOP committees?
Chris and PJ,I agree. I am s
January 25, 2007 - 16:53 ET by bigtimerChris and PJ,
I agree.
I am so sick in tired of these RINO's and our own party going for them instead of the real conservatives.
I will not and have not contributed any more money to the republican party until they get their shite together if they ever do, (not that I have a lot anyway)... We are up for a very tough fight in '08 with a lot of Senators up for re-election, far more than the left, and this is what we get, chicken-shite's, wave the white flag arse's. I have detested the likes of Hagel and Warner, Graham, Spector, ect...now we have Corker, cry baby Voinivich, go along to get along I am woman Murkowski from Ak. who is nothing like her dad, on and on...a crying shame, and a sorry lot of empty suits with empty heads who are enemies to me.
Until there is support for real republicans we are lost.
I'm not giving a dime to the
January 25, 2007 - 16:57 ET by Chris NormanI'm not giving a dime to the Republican Senatorial Committee. If I see someone I want to support, I'll give them money directly. I am tired of my donations being funneled to these worthless Demo-lites. As mad as I get from listening to Democrat windbags like Biden and Dodd, I get incensed when forced to listen to Hagel. The others are better than Hagel by just a degree and deserve a different kind of scorn that's reserved for political cowardice These people run like wet cats when they aren't kept on a tight leash.
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Chris,I've gotta run, but you
January 25, 2007 - 17:12 ET by bigtimerChris,
I've gotta run, but you aren't going to believe this, I just got back from walking up to the mail box, which is icy cold, miserable and dangerous in tennis shoes (hehehe, too lazy to put on boots) and all I got was one piece of lousy mail, guess what it it was?
Yep, a request from the republican party here in my state to please help out and donate! ( we have Baucus and Gov. Schweitzer here both dem's up) ...don't think so...they refused to ask for a recount with the Burns/Tester race, which was very close, the party just told the close races to close up shop and forget about it, after all we are the nice polite guys...unlike the dem's who threaten law-suits in every election if they didn't get their way....I think not one red cent will I give!
Oh the irony!
bt, Are you tying toi set up
January 25, 2007 - 17:52 ET by Chris Normanbt, Are you tying to set up a future story for your kids that you used to have to walk five miles to the mailbox, through the drifting snow, in just your tennis shoes? :) Rush suggested today that solicitations for funds from the Republican Senatorial Committee be returned with just a picture of the recipient's glutinous maximus...
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
If they provided a business r
January 25, 2007 - 17:57 ET by mattmIf they provided a business reply envelope, you should send it back with your objections. It might even be worth the 39 cents for a stamp.
I did this once. I've also sent e-mails, and the last time they called, I ripped into them....but they'll still keep asking...
I prefer to give directly to individual candidates, rather than to the Party...
Hagel is a Republican in name
January 25, 2007 - 16:37 ET by msh1973Hagel is a Republican in name only. Has he ever approved of anything President Bush has proposed? What joke.
Yep here we have the prime ex
January 25, 2007 - 16:58 ET by Dan The Man 2Yep here we have the prime example of Fairness in the Media and what the act will do.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark. -- save my gun, shoot a liberal.
"Laying open our disunit
January 25, 2007 - 17:00 ET by mattm"Laying open our disunity..." Exactly... Divided we fall. The Dems (and RINOs) are dividing us - which can only mean they want us to fall (or they're absolute idiots).
This vote can only serve to make the WOT more difficult to win. All who voted for it should be denounced by the President as aiding and abetting the enemy. (Of course, if he did, they'd accuse him of dividing us)
A strong national defense, fr
January 25, 2007 - 17:36 ET by rimskyA strong national defense, free enterpirse, individual freedom, limited government and traditional American values. These are the fundamental cornerstones of conservative public policy. Very few of these spine-less, so called statesmen have these as core beliefs.