I am so thrilled !!! (I could rant and rave about this!! But so can you.) It is so great to see a heroic Senator take the lead. Senator Russell Feingold will soon introduce legislation to cut off funding for Iraq deployment. The bill will require redeployment of troops by mid-2007. In a press release today about his Judiciary Committee hearing tomorrow, Feingold details his sentiments concisely. Hear it from him below the fold.
On the heels of our DC demonstration and Tony Snow's stupidity, Bush's arrogance on NPR today, and Cheney, ah ...what a shithead, human pus bag....I am so glad to see Feingold stand & deliver for his Senate milquetoasts. I don't know about you, but I am really ashamed that they haven't put it out for a vote to cut it off YET !!!
Or, is this like impeachment? Do we want the issue but not the solution to Iraq, TOO ??!!
I know we shouldn't impeach Bush because we may not have the votes, but is it okay to urge that we cut off funds for Iraq ???
Breaking Another Iraq Taboo 1/29/2007
For the first time in the four-plus years since Congress authorized the Iraq war, Congress is having a serious debate about how we can fix the President's failed Iraq policy. Unfortunately, while there have been plenty of members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, voicing opposition to the President's plans for escalation, most of the plans being pushed will do nothing to end the catastrophe in Iraq.
Americans are not looking to Congress to pass symbolic measures, they are looking to us to stop the President's failed Iraq policy. That is why we must finally break this taboo that somehow Congress can't talk about using its power of the purse to end the war in Iraq. The Constitution makes Congress a co-equal branch of government. It's time we start acting like it. We have a moral responsibility, as well as a responsibility to the brave troops whose lives are on the line, to end the war. We can and must force the President to safely redeploy our troops so that we can get back to focusing on those who attacked us on 9/11.
Tomorrow, I will be chairing a full Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Exercising Congress's Constitutional Power to End a War." This hearing will help remind my colleagues in the Senate and the American public that Congress is not powerless - even when it acts that way. We have the power to stop the policies of a President that continue to hurt our national security. Soon after tomorrow's hearing, I will introduce legislation to do just that.