Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Lieberman defection

[AnnInLa]

Seems John Hawkins at rightwingnews.com was in on a conference call with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell today and asked about the Lieberman defection:

Question and Answer Session

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Q: Are the Democrats simply trying to do things that won't pass? Will the surge be able to play it out?

A: There's only one to impact it. To refuse to fund it. They should stop trying to discourage Petraeus and the troops and should try to cut off funds, if that's what they want to do.

Q: Do you think we could end up in the SCOTUS over this?

A: Well, resolutions that don't try to micromanage the war won't.

Q: Joe Lieberman said yesterday that he might throw his lot in with the Republicans over the war. Would that have an impact?

A: Yes. We'd take over the Senate. But, let me say this about Joe: he made it clear last year that he intended to caucus with the Democrats, even though he is very estranged from the Democrats on post 9/11 strategy. So, I don't expect to him to come over with us. He feels like he has earned the right to be an independent. Also, reports that say the Senate wouldn't shift if he voted with us aren't correct.

Q: So will next week be a key week?

A: Not really. The only way for them to cut off the war is to cut off the funding. Under the Constitution, Congress does not have the authority to micromanage a war, but they do have the authority to cut off funding. On the issue of funding the troops, almost every Republican would want to continue funding them and the Democrats are divided.

You don't wanna go there, but for validity, here is the link:

http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2007/02/a_teleconference_with_senate_m.php



(BTW, I notice on my trolling thru right-nut sites that their main bloggers routinely have conference calls with their Republic party leaders. I know Dems do this once in a while, but Dem leaders spend more time putting down the Lefty-Extremist-Bloggers instead of trying to keep them in the loop and getting feedback from them.....big mistake, IMHO)

[Kolesar]

1. "Dem leaders spend more time putting down the Lefty-Extremist-Bloggers instead of trying to keep...

them in the loop"

That's overstated.