newtonusr @ 204

Blubbering incredibly!

Is it possible he thinks the continuation of the war is the only thing keeping him in office?

A moral certainty…

dakine01 @ 200

Oh Dog! KO has the clip of Boehner crying…

Blubbering incredibly!

Is it possible he thinks the continuation of the war is the only thing keeping him in office?

I am not stuck with Hillary, the DLC or the whole damn Democratic Party.

Would you at least support a Progressive Dem to defeat a DLC Dem in a primary race?

I must also say that it is really refreshing to come here and read intelligent discourse on the issues, as opposed to the childish finger-flipping when people get upset that seems to go on with so many otherwise informative sites. Thank you for that.

No money for you-get lost!!

Pass legislation, and send it to Bush, allocating a specific amount of money (based on Pentagon estimates…and past experience…in troop movements) to be used in redeploying our troops out of Iraq.

No timeline. No benchmarks.

Just a “rainy day fund” to cover the sometime-in-the-future expense of removing our troops from harm’s way, as safely and efficiently as possible.

1) I would be curious to see how the “culture of corruption” Republicans try to spin this single-issue bill into their standard lie that Democrats don’t support the troops, since this single-issue bill just sets money aside (in a lockbox?) to cover any future redeployment of our troops from Iraq.

2) It separates “redeployment funds” from the Iraqi War operational funding contained in the bill that just passed.

3) With no timeline or benchmarks contained in it, this redeployment funding bill will just provide contingency funding for handling the specific cost of pulling our troops out of Iraq sometime in the future. With no timeline or benchmarks, this would tend to nullify any Republican talk about “surrender dates.”

4) Although it should be a single-issue stand-along bill, Democrats could possibly sweeten the pot by including both a basic pay increase and hazardous-duty pay increase for our soldiers serving over in Iraq.

Then, I’d like to see how the Republicans try to spin it that this bill doesn’t support our troops.

I have been away from the Internet and the TV for the past three hours. Can anyone explain to me why ALL BUT ONE Democrat in the House voted for Bush’s war, but 73 Republicans voted against Bush’s war? What did I miss?

we think the roll call votes are mislabeled. see here for the correct labeling (with links to all the house roll call votes today)

but it was the rule vote that mattered, and only 7 house dems voted against it. almost as bad.