Comment On The House Vote On Thursday

   Tomorrow the House will vote on their Iraq supplemental spending bill which mandates a troop withdrawal from Iraq by the fall of 2008. I would imagine that tension are at the boiling point right about now and that there is quite a bit of behind the scenes talk going on over who will support this bill and on whether the leadership can get a few of the blue-dog Democrats to sign on.

   Word has it that  Rep. James Walsh ( R ) will vote NO on the bill despite being hammered almost non-stop by  MoveOn-sponsored ads  and by the blogger's out in reality land.

   The House Democrat leaders still think that this bill can still pass even if only by a tiny margin.

   There are a few other Democrats who do not like this bill and they are Reps. Barbara Lee, Lynne Woolsey, and Maxine Waters. The Democratic leaders have apparently quit trying to talk to these three "because they're lost causes."  There seems to be no hope for winning over Reps. Dennis Kucinich and John Lewis as a source has said that they are  "beyond gone."    Source

 

On March 21, 2007 - 8:36pm Kiwi von Huber said:

Americans are generally in opposition to the war in Iraq but they do not support the insurgents' killing and wounding our guys in Iraq, beheading Iraqis who work for America, and driving truck bombs into marketplaces.

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  I have a question for you. If this bill does pass in the House on Thursday, what will happen to it when it reaches the floor of the Senate? Would anyone care/ dare to take a guess? I say that it will die a horrible death just as has anything else dealing with Iraq when it comes to the Senate and Democrat bills. 0 and 6. That is what the Democrats are in the Senate when it comes to getting anything passed of importance and I see no reason for this to change in the near future. 0 and 6 because there are many criminal and immoral Republicans, and a few Democrats, voting our United States soldiers into death! They are killing our friends and our neighbors and they do not seem to care one way or the other. they are sending our friends and neighbors to Iraq with old equipment that wouldn't stop a B-B gun or a firecracker in a real fight.

    Our friends and neighbors have to save up money from out of their own pockets to buy some of the vests and other equipment that their loved ones ( our troops ) need in order to survive because the money that President Bush spends for the military isn't going to the military.

   The Democratic leaders and the blue-dog Democrats need to get their shit together and I do mean now! Not tomorrow only but the day after and so on because many people like myself are getting tired of this losing battle that the Democrats want to keep indulging in.

   A House divided cannot stand, literally. If this House insist on nit-picking over something so simple as stopping this Iraq bullshit, this House will definitely fall in 2008!

  If the Congress and the Senate cannot beat a lifetime loser like George Bush into submission, the American public has no use for you.

  Keep this in mind!

 

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More Republicans Who Voted To Kill Our Troops

  Continued From Daily Kos

More local action on Republican troop killers

by Kagro X  Wed Mar 21, 2007 at 01:21:52 PM PDT

The drubbing continues from this morning...

Eye on Williamson, on John Carter

[I]f supporting the troops means holding the President accountable and making sure our soldiers and Marines are well rested, well prepared, have healthcare, have body [armor], and armored Humvees then you can count out the Congressman whose district includes the largest Military Base in the United States of America. He’ll vote the party line instead.

Calitics, on John Doolittle and Jerry Lewis

But what else do they have in common, I mean, besides the fact that they are both corrupt? Well, they both voted to continue to send troops to Iraq before they're combat ready and fully equipped.... So, not only are they personally corrupt, they are morally bankrupt.  Good work, California GOP.

The MountainGoat Report, on Mike Simpson

Is party-line voting more important than military readiness?  Apparently so for Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson.... [T]he readiness standards aren't excessive, unreasonable or arbitrary — they are the standards set by the Department of Defense.  Then why, according to Red State Rebels, did every Republican on the Committee vote to scrap that language?  Maybe you should ask Mike Simpson.

Prairie State Blue, on Ray LaHood

Ray has gone and voted to send troops into the war without protective equipment. Well done Ray! That'll show the both our enemies and our own troops who does not support our military. And about those troops not complaining... Don't forget that you also have to talk to the families of those that don't come back.

Missouri Politics, on Jo Ann Emerson

Jo Ann Emerson and the Republican Party continue to talk about supporting the troops while voting to do the exact opposite.

Burnt Orange Report, on Kay Granger, John Carter and John Culberson

Why do Texas' Republican Congressmen continue to vote against our troops and for an unpopular war?

While it would seem, at the least, a bad political move and at its worst, a vote to put American men and women in harm's way, that is exactly what they are doing.

Raising Kaine, on Frank Wolf and Virgil Goode

Given that Virgil Goode is an ethically challenged, globally ridiculed xenophobe and that Frank Wolf got caught lying about his visit to Iraq, a vote against supporting our troops won't help them in 2008.

IdahoRocks, on Mike Simpson

Way to go Rep. Simpson....you who have never served in the military, you who say you support the troops but then want to send them into war without protection. Once again we have an elected official who does not represent the best interests of his communities, his state, and the troops he has sent to war. Shame on you.

We Have Failed Our Duty as Citizens..., on Mike Simpson

What kind of message do you think our soldiers receive when they are lacking appropriate armor, weapons, training, and medical care? What kind of message do they receive when their food is spoiled and their water is contaminated? What kind of message did we send them with the Walter Reed situation? What kind of message do they receive when they needed more troops and were denied over and over and over again...until this pitiful, too little, too late "surge"?

D-day, on Jerry Lewis and John Doolittle

Not only have both of these bloodsuckers drained the national treasury to give their defense contractor and lobbyist friends precious booty, they have talked about patriotism incessantly, yet committed the most unpatriotic act you can possibly commit, signing the death warrants of potentially thousands of Americans.

Democratic Grup, on Jim Walsh

Republicans like James Walsh voted to send our troops to war without proper body armor. Dan Maffei didn't seem to be the guy to take him last November, but in CNY has to do the right thing on behalf of our brave soldiers and send him packing in 2008.

Discourse.net, on Ander Crenshaw, Dave Weldon and C.W. "Bill" Young

There really is no ‘nice’ name for people from a country as rich as ours who send other people’s children, spouses, and parents into combat without basic necessities like body armor, armor for their vehicles, or the weapons they trained with.

Capitol Annex, on Granger, Culbersonand Carter

[T]he votes of Granger, Culberson, and Cater were to send ill-prepared, under-equipped soldiers into war with zero accountability provisions.

Rochester Returning, on Jim Walsh

Walsh voted against this — all the Republicans on the Appropriations Committee did. Shameful.

De Magno Opere, on Ralph Regula

What the hell?! You support sending troops unprepared and unequipped into battle Mr. Regula? Is that not what your vote says in clear and concise terms?

A Seattleite in Idaho, on Mike Simpson

I've been accused of not supporting the troops so many times, at least I didn't vote to send "unarmored, untrained, unrested (and even, Salon and the Hartford Courant tell us, wounded and mentally unstable) troops to Iraq.

 

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