She does no such thing. In fact, I am reading these statements and they tell me that she is working on the opposite of what you claim.
The Senate is not in our favor. That is reality. Anyone who hollers that they "must" cut funding is either in denial, totally ignorant, or offers only lip service, knowing full well that there is no reality attached to these demands. It is in fact BS. The non-binding resolution did not even get the 60 votes needed in the Senate to advance. The NON-BINDING resolution.
I agree with HRC that folks like Edwards and Vilsack are merely playing politics with those demands. In the real world solutions have to be found to inch closer to a solution that at least 10 or so of the Republicans can live with to provide a meaningful solution, not empty rhetoric that does nothing but appease the wingers.
I just saw her video on this. Gee, I wish she would put that stuff in print so I just didn't have to watch her, shudder. Fair enough, but that's all new, isn't it. Up to now the only legislation she's discussed is a 10 January level cap. We shall see, up 'till now she hasn't given us much to work with, as I said.
I am not impressed with the non-binding bill, incidentally, and don't think defunding is a great idea, either. I am glad she has avoided that, as Obama has; in fact her bill sounds alot like his Iraq De-escalation Act of 2007, really, with drawdowns, commitments from the Iraqi government and so forth.
Whenever I read a comment that includes "the real world," I think of Martin Luther King and Ghandi.
Both realised that there was change of consciousness just beneath the surface of the real world each of them lived in.
So they acted in defiance of the "real world," eventually paying for it with their lives. They, however, changed the real world.
The same is happening in America today. The people voted for change, they didn't vote for Democrats they voted against Bush. Weakness, excuses for inaction doesn't impress American voters....and political junkies aren't typical of the voters.
Arguments that support the status quo which is what I'm reading here will go nowhere. Facts aren't the whole picture, interpretation of facts needs to be considered.
Facts con't constitute the real human world, if they did, we wouldn't be in Iraq today and we wouldn't be losing in Afghanistan.
Non binding resolutions will not influence a madman like our President.
And this debate doesn't impress John Q Public.
