Yesterday Russ Feingold once again urged the Senate to vote for surrender in
Iraq, and the Senate once again balked. The vote on "cloture"--i.e., to allow
a vote on the measure itself--was 29-67, with 60 "aye" votes required for
approval. Every Democratic senator with presidential aspirations voted for
cloture, including New York's Hillary Clinton, as the Washington Post reports:
[Mrs. Clinton] has long opposed setting a withdrawal date. But
she voted for the Feingold measure as a message to Bush. Later,
she sought to distance herself from the amendment by stressing
its procedural nature, though when pressed by reporters, she
acknowledged that she supports the Feingold proposal. Still, she
said, "I'm not going to speculate on what I'm going to be voting
on in the future."
To sum up: She opposes it, she voted for it to send a message, she distanced
herself from it, she supports it, and she's not going to speculate about what
she's going to do in the future.
Now that's what we call leadership!
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