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...that they're in charge, Democrats are still talking the talk. This week, they are hammering away at Bush ahead of his Iraq speech while planning a resolution opposing his proposed troop increase in the war. Today incoming Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy held hearings on what he says are executive branch infringements on Americans' privacy. And on Thursday Leahy will have attorney general Alberto Gonzales appear before his panel for a wide-ranging oversight hearing, which the committee's spokesperson says will dig into the civil liberties issues Democrats raised in the campaign...
...Iraq, Hill Democrats have chosen the latter course. Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday introduced a bill to block funding for deploying additional troops to Iraq. But Reid and the Democratic leadership prefer a non-binding, "sense-of-the-Senate" resolution opposing the troop increase that is designed to embarrass Bush by peeling off dissenting Republicans, without actually taking any action to block the move. Kennedy's proposal, leadership aides say, is a stalking horse designed in part to placate the base by attacking Bush while leaving Democrats who support the leadership's alternative safe from accusations they don't back...
...opponents are likely to be disappointed by the Democratic response to Bush's proposed troop increase, those who believe he is eroding American civil liberties will be even more downcast in coming weeks. Yesterday at a press briefing in the Senate Hart office building, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero said that while Democrats had not been willing to obstruct Bush's war on terror initiatives before the November elections, he hoped the Democratic rout might have changed the political calculation. "We hope that the Democrats have found their spines again," he said...
...around it. But you’re basically talking about giving another five billion dollars a year on the medical side, and that’s about what we spend on combat in two weeks.”A failure to allocate such funds in favor of increasing troop presence would be irresponsible, said Bilmes.“It’s wrong to spend all this money necessary to do a surge when we’re not coughing up the money to help these guys when they come home,” she said.The VA itself has been...
...Then in early November, Rice fixed on Negroponte. As a longtime career diplomat, he is widely respected at State, but also considered tough-minded enough to carry out Bush's plans for Iraq and apparent intention to beef up the U.S. troop presence there. "He's a diplomat's diplomat," Rice spokesman Sean McCormack said. "He is somebody who is a close colleague to the Secretary. She has a very good working relationship with him. He has the confidence of the President...