FReeper eyespysomething, acting on Chuck Cut-and-Hagel’s warning about a possible impeachment of President Bush, created this beaut of a pic and unveiled it on a Free Republic thread on Cut-and-Hagel’s betrayal vis-a-vis the troops in Iraq.
Cut-and-Hagel was the pivotal vote in a 50-48 defeat of an attempt to strip a hard 180-day start to the retreat and a suggested May 2008 defeat from the Senate’s pork-laden version of the Iraq war supplemental. With Mitch McConnell’s high-stakes call to not filibuster this to death and depend on a veto and an inability to override, the next steps are the supplental’s passage and reconciliation with the House’s pork-laden hard-and-later (September 2008) retreat-and-defeat effort. It is high stakes because McConnell’s betting that the ‘Rats don’t want an immediate retreat-and-defeat.
