Blumenauer on Gordon Smith

This upcoming Sunday, Congressman Earl Blumenauer will appear on Outlook Portland with Nick Fish. Here's an advance clip of his remarks -- on Gordon Smith's recent flip-flop on Iraq.

Here's part of Blumenauer says on the clip:

Because of what has happened with the people who have been supporting this uncritically from the beginning - preventing Congress from providing oversight, not providing any check and balance with the executive, and in fact supporting the Bush Adminstration in their efforts - we're in a situation now where we've driven into a cul-de-sac, they have broken Iraq, it's going to get worse before it gets better, and our primary objective now is to determine how much worse it gets. ...

There are 21 Republican Senators who are up for re-election. Virtually all of them have been supporters of and enablers of the present Administration's policy in Iraq and they will all in some degree or another distancing themselves. How far and how fast, we'll wait to see. ...

The full show will air Sunday at 6:30 a.m. on KRCW.

Discuss.