Comments for "Hillary vs. the Coffee Machine" Video at VideoSift.com

By NetRunner

NetRunner (http://www.videosift.com/member/NetRunner) — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:31:44 -0700

I agree, Democrats need to hurry up and decide between decaf and regular, before we get stuck with 4 more years of blood and oil.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:53:02 -0700

Moving this video to maatc's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:33:36 -0700

play fair -- you try operating that kind of machinery while under enemy fire

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:34:28 -0700

> before we get stuck with 4 more years of blood and oil

Democrats got a resounding win in the last congress didn't they? I'm still waiting for them to unstuck us?

By NetRunner

NetRunner (http://www.videosift.com/member/NetRunner) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:05:49 -0700

I am too.

I think it's a mix of cowardice (afraid that Bush's conflation of funding a bad war with feeding & clothing troops in a theater of war will stick), political expediency (wait to fix Iraq, because it'll give the Dems the White House on a silver platter in '08), and the fact that they have only the slimmest of majorities on the best of days (51/49), and the Republicans now filibuster everything by default (60 votes to end those), and Bush vetos anything like a withdrawal requirement (override takes 2/3 majority of House and Senate).

They could always stage a big showdown like Gingrich did, and threaten to not approve any budget, but the spinelessness prevents that. Everything they do short of that, they just don't have the votes for.

Doesn't hurt that they're planning to use it to try to keep building their majorities, particularly in the senate, and run for the White House on it too.