why wait until the fall

if someone does something wrong, why stick up for them JUST because you're in the same political party? i'm not talking a gaffe like winking at the queen. i'm talking thousands of deaths of OUR men and women in iraq (not counting what we did to the iraqis themselves). i'm talking katrina. i'm talking global warming and i'm talking lie after lie after lie.

if something is rotten you TOSS IT OUT, don't you? i know i do (unless of course you're a forensic scientist)

Moderate Republicans warn they could desert Bush on war

"Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war," the New York Times leads on Thursday's page one. Story still restricted; excerpts follow............

Moderates in G.O.P. Warn Bush on Iraq

By CARL HULSE and JEFF ZELENY
Published: May 10, 2007
WASHINGTON, May 9 — Moderate Republicans gave President Bush a blunt warning on his Iraq policy at a private White House meeting this week, telling the president that conditions needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war
The White House session demonstrated the grave unease many Republicans are feeling about the war, even as they continue to stand with the president against Democratic efforts to force a withdrawal of forces through a spending measure that has been a flash point for weeks.
Participants in the Tuesday meeting between Mr. Bush, senior administration officials and 11 members of a moderate bloc of House Republicans said the lawmakers were unusually candid with the president, telling him that public support for the war was crumbling in their swing districts. ..........

Bush Told War Is Harming The GOP
A Warning on Eve Of Vote on New Bill


By Shailagh Murray and Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, May 10, 2007; Page A01
House Republican moderates, in a remarkably blunt White House meeting, warned President Bush this week that his pursuit of the war in Iraq is risking the future of the Republican Party and that he cannot count on GOP support for many more months.
The meeting, which ran for an hour and a half Tuesday afternoon, was disclosed by participants yesterday as the House prepared to vote this evening on a spending bill that could cut funding for the Iraq war as early as July. GOP moderates told Bush they would stay united against the latest effort by House Democrats to end U.S. involvement in the war. Even Senate Democrats called the House measure unrealistic............