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01/20/2005 Archived Entry: "Senate Dems may delay full vote on Rice"

Posted by steve @ 03:49 AM EST [Link]

DEMOCRATS ONCE AGAIN SHOW WHY THEY ARE AMERICA'S MINORITY PARTY: They've already got a bad reputation for being sucks but that sure isn't stopping Senate Democrats! Rumours suggest that a few Democrats are going to try and delay a full vote on Condoleezza Rice until after later in the evening.

Aides said Boxer and Robert Byrd of West Virginia plan to give long speeches opposing the nomination in an effort to extend the debate until 7 p.m., when the inaugural balls begin.

The aides said Boxer and Byrd hope some GOP members will not want to stay and debate the nomination, and the vote will be pushed back until next week.

While acknowledging that Rice will be confirmed eventually, some Democrats want to show they are ready to fight the president in his second term -- amid grumbling that party leaders did not stand up to Bush in his first term.

And knowing the blockheads that make up the Republican Party, they'll still believe that they can work with the Democrats over the next few years. One day, I may still be alive to see it, the Republicans will learn that the Democrats play for keeps. When they speak of bipartisanship, it means that the GOP has to compromise all of its positions. When they speak of working together, it means that they want all the power. When they play, they play to win.

Despite countless examples of this in just the past ten years alone, Republicans just don't seem to understand that the Democrats aren't their friends. For some reason, and this includes George W. Bush, they keep wanting to make nice with the Democrats and always get bitten on the bum for their troubles.

I'm going to say this once and once only: Republicans, it's a war on Capitol Hill. Either fight every battle with the aim of winning -- what the Democrats do -- or go home. If they want to rumble over something as inane as Rice's vote, they'll fight over anything. You better fight back.