What I Didn't Do This Summer

Published: September 4, 2007, 4:25 pm

Tags: harry reid, dick durbin, iraq, supplemental

On June 13th, mcjoan reported on a conference call with Harry Reid: Reid also broke the news that the Magical September was likely to bring just one thing--another supplemental request by Bush. So we can look forward to another round of the "fund the troops" canard timed for exactly the moment at which Republicans keep telling everyone they're going to give up on Iraq if it's "not working." So, we knew another supplemental was coming. And we knew that we would be facing another round of the "fund the troops" canard come September. And we were told that the summer would be about ratcheting up the pressure on Republicans, so that come Magical September, they'd find it politically impossible to cling to Bush and his insanity any longer. So how did it happen that on August 30th, Dick Durbin ends up making these comments on the very supplemental correctly predicted by Reid? In the debate in Washington, the White House reportedly will ask Congress for an additional $50 billion to

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