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but we may be putting too much blame on the leadership.
I hear there's a sizable contigent of House Dems who won't vote to block funding no matter what Bush vetoes. In the Senate we don't even have a majority on Iraq.
Still, Reid and Pelosi shouldn't even allow these bills up for a vote. They should send a pit-bull like Emmanuel or someone to whip votes with promises of cover and threats of primaries and witheld support if they continue to put their own political prospects ahead of those of the country.
Also, a 41-man filibuster is all it takes to prevent another supplemental from getting through on Bush terms. Come to think of it, they are cowards.
Seek first and final principles at The Mean Free Path.
by Cream Puff on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 08:37:39 AM PDT
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Profiteering. They'd rather hide behind the troops they're sending off to die. They'd rather phrase it as, "not hurting the troops." Well, we have all seen enough of this game, to know that, "Change the Course," became, "Stay the Course," soon after November 2006.
by leonard145b on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 08:46:25 AM PDT
you're suggesting that Reid and Pelosi are profiting financially from sending soldiers to die?
by Cream Puff on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 08:50:41 AM PDT
that benefit from the Ear-Marks, Defense Contracts, etc., brought back to their respective states, profit, from the War.
by leonard145b on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 09:02:29 AM PDT
Just two divisions of the War Party, with the Republican division more focused on ultra greedy rich people, and the dems focused on do-gooder rich people, but they both bow to the all-mighty military-industrial complex that has run this country since 1940.
by MD patriot on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 09:12:29 AM PDT
There are a lot of them, like my rep Lloyd Doggett, who have been fighting the good fight, and taking the subsequent abuse, all their lives.
You got no fear of the underdog. That's why you will not survive. - Spoon
by brainiacamor on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 10:25:04 AM PDT
He must be from the democratic wing of the party instead of the big-money corrupts everything wing of the party!
by MD patriot on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 03:00:00 PM PDT
why our Soldiers are still killing and dying in Iraq. Please ask them to explain why they may fork over $200,000,000,000, more. All I've heard from them, and my Senators as well, is that they "Don't want to hurt the Troops."
by leonard145b on Fri Aug 31, 2007 at 09:06:07 AM PDT
wide narrow
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