Republicans Turning On The NeoCons

[Nbadan]

There are so many now, I thought they deserved their own thread...Post yours here...

Rep. Anne Northup calls for Rummy ouster

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Republican locked in a tight congressional race with a harsh critic of the Iraq war said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should be replaced.

Rep. Anne Northup (news, bio, voting record), a five-term in bent, also called for a change of course in Iraq, a stark contrast to her past support of President Bush.

Northup, whose district favored John Kerry over Bush in 2004, said she remains a supporter of the war but wants to see a change in direction as violence has intensified in recent weeks.

"You can have a bad week, you can have two bad weeks, but when you have two bad months, you have to reassess," she said. "You cannot afford to lose the numbers we are losing now and just keep slugging away."

Yahoo News

[Nbadan]

Here's another...

GOP senator says Iraq is near chaos
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer 31 minutes ago
WASHINGTON

Just two weeks before the Nov. 7 elections that will determine whether Republicans retain control of Congress, the White House tried to calm political anxieties about deteriorating security in Iraq. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers are calling on President Bush to change his war plan.

"We're on the verge of chaos, and the current plan is not working," Sen. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., said in an Associated Press interview. U.S. and Iraqi officials should be held accountable for the lack of progress, said Graham, a Republican who is a frequent critic of the administration's policies.

Asked who in particular should be held accountable — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, perhaps, or the generals leading the war — Graham said: "All of them. It's their job to come up with a game plan" to end the violence.

Bush, in a CNBC interview, said, "Well, I've been talking about a change in tactics ever since I — ever since we went in, because the role of the commander in chief is to say to our generals, `You adjust to the enemy on the battlefield.'"

Yahoo News

[Nbadan]

Yet more cut-and-run Republicans, including Texas's own Kay Bailey Hutch

GOP hopefuls repudiate Bush plan on Iraq
By Tom Raum
The Associated Press
Published: 10.24.2006

WASHINGTON

— Republicans worried about losing Congress are challenging President Bush on Iraq, eroding his base of support for the unpopular war just two weeks before midterm elections. Increasing calls from restive Republicans for new ideas to extricate the U.S. come as the White House itself seems to struggle for a better course, or at least a better way to describe the current course. ...

In recent days:

● Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said she would not have supported the invasion had she known there were no weapons of mass destruction, and she has proposed splitting Iraq into three parts.

● Virginia Republican Sen. George Allen, in a difficult re-election battle with Democratic challenger James Webb, dropped his stay-the-course mantra to assert, "We cannot continue doing the same things and expect different results. We have to adapt our operations, adapt our tactics."

● Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in an interview with The Associated Press that both U.S. and Iraqi officials should be held accountable for the lack of progress: "We're on the verge of chaos and the current plan is not working."

AZStarnet

[boutons_]

The rubber-stamp, no-oversight, no-ethics Repug rats in Congress are abandoning the Executive ship, trying to save their own skins as the Exec loses Iraq.

The rats, seeing the writing on the wall that IRAQ IS LOST, will later try to show they were "on record" as against the war, that it was exclusively the fault of the Executive, World Strategic Blunder Champions, for losing Iraq.

[BIG IRISH]

DAN
You have been had if you think the Republicans are turning on Bush.
It is just a matter of them setting the stage for a late/over-due OCTOBER Suprise. Mark my words in will happen before Christmas. They will make lemon-aid out of the lemon "IRAQ" and get to spend all that celabration $

After the elections are over and they are still in Power, although not
with a majority in the House, they will start for the push for the elections of
2008. After all they still have two years to go and the majority of Americans will have only vague memories of IRAQ. As along as the price of gas stays down, the economy does well. and if we are not attacked on our own soil, and we are tossed some crums about solving the Illegal immerigations issue. The repub will win again in 2008 , because the Demon crats have no plan, nor "Real:leaders

Read the writing on the wall:.

http://www.nysun.com/article/41371?page_no=1

[RandomGuy]

DAN
Mark my words in will happen before Christmas. They will make lemon-aid out of the lemon "IRAQ" and get to spend all that celabration $

Care to put some money on that?

I will bet you a real, honest-to-goodness $100 that the situation in Iraq will be just about as bad in December and January as it today, if not worse.

[RandomGuy]

DAN
You have been had if you think the Republicans are turning on Bush.
It is just a matter of them setting the stage for a late/over-due OCTOBER Suprise. Mark my words in will happen before Christmas. They will make lemon-aid out of the lemon "IRAQ" and get to spend all that celabration $

After the elections are over and they are still in Power, although not
with a majority in the House, they will start for the push for the elections of
2008. After all they still have two years to go and the majority of Americans will have only vague memories of IRAQ. As along as the price of gas stays down, the economy does well. and if we are not attacked on our own soil, and we are tossed some crums about solving the Illegal immerigations issue. The repub will win again in 2008 , because the Demon crats have no plan, nor "Real:leaders

Read the writing on the wall:.

http://www.nysun.com/article/41371?page_no=1

In fact, let me just respond to the whole post: wrong, wrong wrong.

You are wrong that Republicans aren't turning on Bush. I have personally talked to no few GOPers who are doing exactly that, and seen interviews with no few congressment who are also doing exactly that.

You are wrong that something magical is going to happen in Iraq. This administration is incapable of admitting that failure in Iraq. There will be no surprise solution. This administration has painted itself into a corner with its own rhetoric. Our troops will be there for years to come.

You are wrong that the Dems have no real leaders. To think so is just sucking up conservative propaganda.

[Nbadan]

More Republicans Distance Themselves From Bush on War

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Representative John Sweeney of New York, who only four months ago said the U.S. needed to ``stay the course and finish this mission'' in Iraq, now says that approach ``is not a strategy at all; it doesn't work.''

Sweeney is one of a growing number of Republicans distancing themselves from President George W. Bush on Iraq. They include Representatives Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, Nancy Johnson of Connecticut and Mike Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania; and Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, George Allen of Virginia and Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.

The result is that, less than two weeks before the Nov. 7 elections, Republicans are being forced to alter their plans to paint Democrats as wavering and indecisive on Iraq.

``Events on the ground have totally undermined'' that strategy, said Rand Beers, a former White House adviser on terrorism who now consults with Democratic candidates. ``They bet on events that turned out not to follow their preferred course.''

Bloomberg

Don't get me wrong, if the Republicans win control of both houses again you can bet that these Congress members will be the first to bend over and take it again from the Rove political machine, no matter the costs.

[Ocotillo]

As Stephanie Miller likes to say "Republicans eating their own.