Dems Try to Pre-Empt State of the Union

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(01-25) 09:30 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Congressional Democrats, trying to get the jump on President Bush's State of the Union speech, challenged him Friday to renounce the use of waterboarding in interrogations, announce he will close Guantanamo Bay to detainees and outline new policies toward Pakistan and Iran.

Domestically, Democrats said they expect Bush to invest more in the development of renewable energy and to support any compromise Republicans and Democrats strike to renew a law governing the president's secretive surveillance program.

"Our first goal as a country must be to restore that moral authority," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in prepared remarks to the National Press Club. "It won't happen without the moral leadership of the president of the United States. Perhaps on Monday, President Bush will show that leadership."

In a pair of speeches Friday, Reid played the tough cop in foreign policy while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., spoke of the Iraq war only in closing.

The contrast is emblematic of the trouble Democrats have had since retaking control of Congress a year ago of getting their House and Senate caucuses to speak with one voice on Iraq, and the failure to make good on the promise to force Bush to begin withdrawing troops.



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[ClassWarrior]

1. Nothing on Dennis' Articles of IMPEACHMENT against Bush**?

Shame on you, SFGate...

NGU.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

2. Please, President Bush?

Pretty please?

Pretty-pretty please?

[Kolesar]

3. America needs to deploy renewable energy, not just fund development of renewable energy

It is imperitive that we start replacing fossil fuel generation, NOW, at ANY cost.

[mopinko]

4. woooo. strongly worded statements make my little heart flutter!

NOT

[iris5426]

5. Less talk, more doing please. I'm convinced they're useless... nt

[ejbr]

6. Peas in a fucking pod. Whatever douchebags n/t

[pleah]

7. They are dreaming if they think this Godless Warmongering Bastard is going to do the right thing!

[sakabatou]

8. Congress has talked big before

But they always cave.

[Orsino]

9. By enforcing some subpoenas?

No, surely not that.

[Solly Mack]

10. lololol

yeah, that'll restore "moral authority"

lolololol

you want a war criminal president who implemented a torture policy to "renounce" the very torture he brags about even while denying it's happening?

but no one wants to hold him accountable...which actually would go a long way to restoring credibility

so some in congress think that simply renouncing torture will "restore moral authority"?

LMAO

What a pathetic joke