{"id":10819,"date":"2007-05-16T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10819.html"},"modified":"2007-05-16T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:25:21","slug":"snows-jaw-dropper-on-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/snows-jaw-dropper-on-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow&#8217;s jaw-dropper on withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unprompted, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2007\/05\/20070516-3.html\">responded<\/a> this afternoon to Sen. Feingold&#8217;s measure to cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008. I&#8217;ve seen just about every press briefing Snow has done, and this has to rank right up there among the craziest arguments he&#8217;s made.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: On the war funding bill, Senator Levin this morning pulled down his proposal, which would have had timetables, but with presidential waiver. Did the White House oppose that proposal?<\/p>\n<p>SNOW: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Why?<\/p>\n<p>MR. SNOW: Because we made it pretty clear that we don&#8217;t think timetables are the way to go. What&#8217;s interesting, Ken, is the Senate also today voted on Senator Feingold&#8217;s proposal, which was straight-out withdrawal. And they voted against it by a margin of 67-29&#8230;. I think that sends a pretty powerful message to those who are continuing to conduct negotiations about the sense of the American people and the Senate, which is the idea of withdrawal is not &#8212; simply withdrawing on a timetable is not something that the American people, or, for that matter, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, Tony? Congress already passed a withdrawal timeline. The House passed it with a bipartisan majority; the Senate passed it with a bipartisan majority; and polls show strong majorities support across the country backed the measure. The president vetoed it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Withdrawing on a timetable is not something that the American people, or, for that matter, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate support.&#8221; It&#8217;s enough to seriously make me wonder whether Snow understands what&#8217;s going on around him. I assume he keeps up on current events; maybe he heard about the president vetoing funding for the war because lawmakers included provisions for withdrawing on a timetable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unprompted, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow responded this afternoon to Sen. Feingold&#8217;s measure to cut off money for combat operations in Iraq after March 31, 2008. I&#8217;ve seen just about every press briefing Snow has done, and this has to rank right up there among the craziest arguments he&#8217;s made. Q: On the war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}