Dems Say Fight Has Just Begun

      I like the news headline on the Yahoo News page this morning.

   " Dems:Fight Over Iraq War Has Just Begun " is the headline. Maybe somebody needs to slap the Democrats up besides their heads because they lost the fight over the Iraq war yesterday when they voted to give Bush a blank check for this crap. The Democrats now not only have Bush to put up with, but come this weekend when they go home, they have the people who voted them into office waiting for some answers.

   I'm no political science major but I do know that this bill should not have been introduced, much less passed. The Democrats caved in much to easily and that minimum wage increase that they are now touting means nothing to those troops who will not make it back home from Iraq.

  Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both voted against this bill which is a shift from their earlier position that against troop withdrawal from Iraq so I wonder if they just voted this way because they knew that this bill was going to pass anyway? A vote just to get a little friendly publicity for the public?

  Here's a funny one for you.

Thursday's legislative action capped weeks of negotiations with the White House, which agreed to accept some $17 billion more than Bush had requested as long as there were no restrictions on the military campaign.    Yahoo News

  Let me get this right, okay? Bush would not have taken the additional $17 billion if there were a few restrictions in the bill? What kind of horseshit is that? For that matter, why did the Congress give him the additional money in the first place if they are attempting to stop this fiasco? None of this makes any sense and the Democrats must be made to answer for this .

"This debate will go on," vowed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

"Senate Democrats will not stop our efforts to change the course of this war until either enough Republicans join with us to reject President Bush's failed policy or we get a new president," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said.

  Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi, you just lost the debate you idiots!

 

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Democrats Kissed Bush's Ass!

    Needless to say, after the Democrats went ahead and gave President Bush all of the money that he has wanted for the war in Iraq, and then some more, I'm not so happy with these spineless cowards at the moment.

   The Democrats have been laying with the Republican dogs for four months and it seems that they have caught their fleas from them. I could go on about how the pigs have come home to roost, but I'll let that one pass, for now.

  There are many of us out here in blog land who are VERY, VERY pissed off with the Democrats tonight for sending Bush another check with infinite zero's at the end of it. As if that wasn't bad enough, these Democrats are under the illusion that they have been victorious over Bush with this bullshit bill.

  I'll tell you who the Democrats are winners over and that would be both you and I, the American citizens who re-elected and also elected the Democrats to stop this lousy war, not put it off until after they have won 2008. At the rate that the House leaders are going, they might as well hand the GOP the White in 2008 because the majority of Americans who puts these clowns in office are not to happy with  this group and their bullshit.

  On to bigger things here.

  Over at Daily kos, Rep Louise Slaughter posted one of her diaries trying to explain why this bill went forward and I do take exception to some of her comments, starting out with the previous bill which Bush vetoed.

As you know, President Bush vetoed it. What is more, the Republicans in this Congress willfully and deliberately ignored public opinion and supported that veto. They made it impossible for us to overturn it. They kept this war going between 2003 and 2006, and they kept it going again with that vote.

As such, we had a choice. We could send Mr. Bush the same bill, or allow something to pass that wouldn't be vetoed. And we elected to let something pass - to let Republicans, if they so choose, fund their own war.

  Sorry Rep. Slaughter, but that doesn't wash. In sending this bill to Bush for his signature you and the other Democrats chose to help the Republicans fund this war so it is now not only their war, but yours also. The Democrats in the Congress are now the proud co-owners of the Bush administration's mess in Iraq. I hope that you truly enjoy your purchase, Rep. Slaughter.

With this White House, and with this Republican minority, it is safe to say that a standoff with the Administration would have meant that our troops would be left in harm's way, only now with even less funding to back them up. I don’t think that would have been right to do - to make them do even more with even less. The President doesn't seem to care how much our troops suffer. All evidence indicates that he will make them fight if they have needed funding or not.

Secondly, a standoff would have allowed the President to keep using our soldiers as pawns, accusing Democrats of abandoning them while it is really his war that has left them to fend for themselves.

     Nothing but stale air in this comment, Rep. Slaughter. You politicians must think that the majority of the American citizens are stupid. While I can state with some certainty that at least 28% ( GOP ) may be stupid, I can also say that the other 72% aren't totally stupid. There may be many among both groups who are ignorant, but that 72% pretty much told this Congress that we wanted our troops out of Iraq NOW, not in 2 years or three years or whenever it is convenient for you.

    Our troops in harms way if you did not let this bill pass? Rep. Slaughter, you are either the stupid one or the ignorant one. Most of us know that our troops aren't going to be in harms way without that cash anymore than they are now. If anything, you and the rest of the Democrats have put them in harms way with  this bill. Less funding, or no funding, means less time for them to be over in Iraq. It does not mean that they are going to have to go from bullets to slingshots without the funds. Lack of funds does not mean that they would be going without anything, it means that they would be going home!

   The Democrats have let most of their supporters down on this and it will not be forgotten so easily. they can spin this all day long but it still comes down to them saying ' fuck the public ' and let's give Bush his money.

Tags: Representative Louise Slaughter George Bush Democrats war Iraq