European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 21 opinion Reform takes priority Over gamesmanship George will Washington senators from both parties who Are try Harry the senates majority ing to resuscitate the Bill surely read last Leader and resident Uriah weekends Rasmussen poll recording pub affected Umble and syr lie approval of Reid 19 percent far below up sadness about the senates the presidents pathetic 36 demo inability to pass the immigration Bill that crafts who control this floundering and he pulled from the roundly disapproved Congress Are paying floor last thursday a painful Price for the pleasure of defeat evening for a trans Par ing everything that could be construed As entry meretricious Rea in any Way an achievement by the presi saying the sen ates time was too pre Cious to expend on what would have been limited debate on a limited number of re publican amendments to the Reid vowed everyone thais been there Are two issues that Are Foremost in their minds number one is the Iraq War and number two Are Gas were going to Deal with that As r soon As we finish with this immigration leg health care legislation within their first 100 so the Senate took Friday wasted Bernstein reports that two of the most re monday in the predictable futility of failing spec Ted for Clinton to pass a nonbinding a Resolution most important Pat Moynihan expressing constitutionally irrelevant Lack and Bill Bradley both were on the finance of Confidence in the attorney then which would handle her legis debated lowering gasoline collation Moynihan was were a Reid is just one reason for the immigration legislation parlous Condi another reason is that lessons from 14 years ago have been in his new biography of Hillary a woman in Carl Bernstein re Calls april the 95th and 96th Days of the Clinton when the president and Clinton at tended a Retreat with Senate democrats in it was already Clear that the Clinton were not going to fulfil their Promise to present comprehensive weal Remy a z ing the planet or something by spending taxpayers Money to raise food it took up Legisla Tion to quintuple the mandated use of mostly Cor based which already has in creased Ameri cans food Bills billion in democrats who control this floundering and roundly disapproved Congress Are paying a painful Price for the pleasure of defeating everything that could be construed As in any Way an achievement by the called by her High handed Bradley asked her if the tardiness in de livering her Bill would complicate passage by making the Bill competitive with other legislative and he suggested that some sub Stan the last 12 for such Reid Tive changes in her proposal might be Nee scuttled the bipartisan attempt to improve Bernstein writes Hillary re the eminently improbable immigration Sta sponged there would be no changes Tus delay or the White House would demonize members of Congress and the medical establishment who would use the interim to alter the administrations Plain or otherwise stand in its Bradley and Moynihan heard Bern Stein with disgust and her plan never even came to a vote in a con Gress controlled by her Lake her the recent immigration legislation had three it was drafted in secret and unlike her the immigration Bill was not the subject of hearings that could have clarified such fundamental matters As whether immigrants Are net drains or contributors the fiscal health of state and local like Many comprehensive solutions to intricate problems that Are susceptible to incremental the immigration like the Clinton health care was presented As a pack age so finely calibrated and exquisitely balanced that any significant change As Shakespeare said take but degree untuned that hark what discord people sceptical about the Legisla Tion if not cast As bigots at people uninterested in doing the right thing for America president perhaps in his Rush to truncate de was being chivalrous toward speaker Nancy suppose Senate republicans agree to expedited handling of the Legisla Tion so the Senate can get on with whatever Folly Reid next considers urgent and suppose 60 senators can Force a final vote on a Bill that retains the most important provisions increased Border Security and electronic identity Many which profit from being magnets for illegal think being part of Law enforcement is an intolerable which is heartening Evi Dence that workplace enforcement might if the Senate passes a immigration then becomes a hot potato for the where 61 of Kelosis democrats represent Republican leaning districts Bush carried hark what discord will what George win is a member of Washington Post writers makes sense to a but More changes needed by Dale Mcfeatters Scripps Howard news service the White House want about to Brook any criticism of its conduct of the War from the republicans when they ran Congress Asun Likely As that overconfident group of legislators was to offer any and if s not going to invite any from the democrats now that there in and congressional criticism and not All from what the Bush ministration would have gotten had it gone ahead As planned with nominating Marine Peter Pace to a second term As chair Man of the joint chiefs of Secretary of defense Robert Gates said he had decided against it because the sen ate confirmation process would have been too contentious and that senators would have rehashed the last four years of the Iraq War in an attempt to find out what went and including Senate armed services committee chairman Carl confirmed that the hearing would have been in other on behalf of the adminis would have been forced to defend the conduct of the War to who served four years As vice chairman of the joint chiefs and two years As has been there since the be by the Bio of Gates Nomi Nee to replace chief of naval operations Michael suggests that he was not directly involved in planning for the Iraq when before the Start of the Iraq War then army chief of staff Eric Shinseki said it would take several Hundred thou Sand troops to stabilize postwar he was publicly rebuked and disavowed by the defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his top Paul rums Feld was forced out last fall and who had departed left the world Bank under a Cloud this there has been almost a compete turnover in the civilian and military leadership that was Mere at the outset of the rather than live with a Rumsfeld hold perhaps Gates wanted his own per son As the nations top military and thais but after four years of the White House insisting the War was going great if Only the press reported it that this sudden scramble for a Mili tary Miracle David then a War Czar and now Mullen hardly inspires prickly City by Scott Stantis