Buoyed by the defections of senior Senate Republicans from the president's war strategy, Majority Leader Harry Reid today reached out to his colleagues across the aisle to put votes behind their rhetoric and change course on Iraq.It just might be time to light up RINOvich's phone lines again...
Setting the staging for the upcoming debate on the annual defense authorization bill before the Senate, Reid said, "I think we will find out in the next couple of weeks whether the Republicans who have said publicly they think the present course should change are willing to vote with us."
Reid was referring, of course, to the change of stance of GOP Sens. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and George Voinovich, R-Ohio, all once supporters of the president's Iraq policy who have recently called for a change of course.
"We invite them to come with us. We put our arms around them. We do not push them away. We believe that there's sentiment in this country as evidenced by Republicans like Domenici speaking out loud saying that the policy should change," Reid said. "They will have many opportunities in the next couple of weeks to vote for that change."
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