Rangel Votes Against His Own Draft Bill!

The Rush Limbaigh Show ^ | October 5, 2004 | Rush Limbaubh

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Rangel Votes Against His Own Draft Bill!

October 5, 2004

Listen to Rush… (…read from the latest Kerry-Edwards transcript on the draft rumor)

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

I've been saying that the mainstream press, particularly the Associated Press, acts as a transcript service. They're not a news service or a wire service. They're not out there reporting the news. They are a transcript service for the Kerry campaign. And the most recent example is the Democrats have got this rumor percolating out there that Bush has got a secret plan to reinstitute the draft, right? It's so untrue, and the opposite, if anything, is true, and it's been demonstrably shown to be true, and yet the mainstream press continues to report, AP or whoever. When they get this rumor of the draft going, they dutifully report it as a transcription service would.

And yet today, presidential politics took to the floor of the House. (story) Republican leaders trying to make a political point by decisively defeating a Democrat bill that would reinstitute a military draft. It's the Democrats, there are two Democrats that have reintroduced or introduced a bill to reinstate the draft. And they did it not because they want the draft, but for political reasons. They wanted to start the rumor. They wanted to get it out there. It was Charles Rangel's idea that the rich kids are not fighting while the poor kids are. And so he wanted to get the draft going to try to illustrate that.

[RockinRight]

This is insane. The Democrats WILL STOP AT NOTHING to win, er, steal this election.

[PeterFinn]

"Rangel Votes Against His Own Draft Bill!"

This, of course, qualifies him to be a Kerry supporter.

[Steel Wolf]

You know your legistalation sucks when you can't even bring yourself to vote for it.

Why New Yorkers keep voting that clown in is a complete mystery. Why people who fear a draft vote Democratic is also beyond reasoning. Even after this pathetic spectacle, there will be MILLIONS of people that are so ill informed that they'll think that the Democrats narrowly stopped Bush from reinstating the draft.

[A Real Dan Fan... NOT]

Like I said before, anyone stupid enough to believe in the draft is way too stupid to be in the service.

LIBERALS.... GET THIS!!!

YOU ARE TOO IGNORANT TO BE IN THE SERVICE!

GOT THAT?

Then shut the hell up!

[Fintan]

Rangel probably believed the talking points faxed by his own party to the MSM.

[Arpege92]

LOL

[blogblogginaway]

"I am voting no, because my bill deserves serious consideration."

CONGRESSMAN CHARLES B. RANGEL
Press Releases


U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515 CONTACT: Emile Milne
(202) 225-4365

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PRESS CONFERENCE: 2:00 P.M. TODAY
Room H-322

STATEMENT BY
HON. CHARLES RANGEL

THE VOTE ON THE BILL TO REINSTATE THE DRAFT IS A POLITICAL MANEUVER TO PROTECT THE PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, October 5, 2004 -- The Republican leadership decision to place the draft legislation on the Suspension Calendar is a political maneuver to kill rumors of the President's intention to reinstate the draft after the November election.

I am voting no, because my bill deserves serious consideration. It should be subject to hearings and to expert testimony. The Administration should come and tell us about our manpower needs, about recruitment and retention, about the extent to which out troops are overextended. And they should give us their views about shared sacrifice. If they did all of those things in a serious way, they would have to admit that my bill is an option.

But what we are seeing now is election-year politics. They are using the Suspension Calendar, which is reserved for non-controversial items, to make a cynical political statement. The American people are deeply concerned about this issue deserve more than this. So do our troops, who after we leave here today, will still be on ground, and left with the message that we couldn't take the time to discuss their situation and what should be done to relieve them.

This is hypocrisy of the worst kind. I would not encourage any Democrat running for reelection to vote for this bill.


http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny15_rangel/CBRDraftBillinSuspensionCalender10052004.html

[doug from upland]

Hmmmmm. Kerry is contagious. Rangel voted for it before he voted against it.

[MisterRepublican]

This would make an excellent commercial for the Republicans. But they rarely take the opportunities that they are given.

[CaptRon]

What? Does the entire party have Votezheimers?

[TexasCajun]

I would not encourage any Democrat running for reelection to vote for this bill.

Priceless!!

[True Grit]

"Rangel Votes Against His Own Draft Bill!"

Rangel's elevator doesn't stop of every floor.

[lepton]

bookmark bump

[RedBloodedAmerican]

In other words, the registered democratic voters are jumping ship because their congressional leaders have lost their collective minds.

I love it.

We will now be a one party nation with tyrants and treason the only distraction.

[SCALEMAN]

I am not a history genius but I don't think that any draft has been instigated by a Republican President since Abraham Lincoln.

Any history buffs out there know for sure?

[OXENinFLA]

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 494(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 163      2/3 YEA-AND-NAY      5-Oct-2004      7:29 PM
      QUESTION:  On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
      BILL TITLE: Universal National Service Act

	Yeas	Nays	PRES	NV
Republican		215		12
Democratic	2	186		17
Independent		1
TOTALS	2	402		29

---- YEAS    2 ---

Murtha

Stark

---- NAYS    402 ---

Abercrombie Ackerman Aderholt Akin Alexander Allen Andrews Baca Bachus Baird Baker Baldwin Ballenger Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bass Beauprez Becerra Bell Berkley Berman Berry Biggert Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Blumenauer Blunt Boehner Bonilla Bonner Bono Boozman Boswell Boucher Boyd Bradley (NH) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Burns Burr Burton (IN) Butterfield Buyer Calvert Camp Cantor Capito Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carson (IN) Carson (OK) Carter Case Castle Chabot Chandler Chocola Clay Clyburn Coble Cole Collins Conyers Cooper Costello Cramer Crane Crenshaw Crowley Cubin Culberson Cummings Cunningham Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (FL) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) Davis, Jo Ann Davis, Tom Deal (GA) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro DeLay Deutsch Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Dingell Doggett Doolittle Doyle Dreier Duncan Dunn Edwards Ehlers Emanuel Emerson Engel English Eshoo Etheridge Evans Everett Farr Fattah Feeney Ferguson Filner Flake Foley Ford Fossella Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Frost Gallegly Garrett (NJ) Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest

Gillmor Gingrey Gonzalez Goode Goodlatte Gordon Granger Graves Green (TX) Green (WI) Grijalva Gutierrez Gutknecht Hall Harman Harris Hart Hastert Hastings (FL) Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hefley Hensarling Herger Herseth Hill Hinchey Hinojosa Hobson Hoekstra Holden Holt Honda Hooley (OR) Hostettler Houghton Hoyer Hulshof Hunter Hyde Inslee Isakson Israel Issa Istook Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Jenkins Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) Kanjorski Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) Kennedy (RI) Kildee Kilpatrick Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kirk Kline Knollenberg Kolbe LaHood Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham LaTourette Leach Lee Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (GA) Lewis (KY) Linder Lipinski LoBiondo Lofgren Lowey Lucas (KY) Lucas (OK) Lynch Maloney Manzullo Markey Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy (MO) McCarthy (NY) McCollum McCotter McCrery McDermott McGovern McHugh McInnis McKeon McNulty Meehan Meek (FL) Menendez Mica Michaud Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, Gary Miller, George Mollohan Moore Moran (KS) Moran (VA) Murphy Musgrave Myrick Nadler Napolitano Neal (MA) Neugebauer Ney Northup Nunes Nussle Oberstar

Obey Olver Ortiz Osborne Ose Otter Owens Oxley Pallone Pascrell Pastor Paul Payne Pearce Pelosi Pence Peterson (MN) Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Pitts Platts Pombo Pomeroy Porter Price (NC) Putnam Quinn Radanovich Rahall Ramstad Rangel Regula Rehberg Renzi Reyes Reynolds Rodriguez Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Royce Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Sabo Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Saxton Schakowsky Schiff Schrock Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherman Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simmons Simpson Skelton Smith (MI) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Snyder Solis Souder Spratt Stearns Stenholm Strickland Stupak Sullivan Sweeney Tancredo Tanner Tauscher Taylor (MS) Taylor (NC) Thomas Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Tierney Toomey Towns Turner (OH) Turner (TX) Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Vitter Walden (OR) Walsh Wamp Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Weldon (FL) Weldon (PA) Weller Wexler Whitfield Wicker Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Woolsey Wu Wynn Young (AK) Young (FL)

---- NOT VOTING    29 ---

Boehlert Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Cannon Cox DeMint Dooley (CA) Forbes Gephardt Greenwood

Hoeffel John Jones (OH) Kaptur Kleczka Kucinich Lampson Majette McIntyre Meeks (NY)

Millender-McDonald Nethercutt Norwood Portman Pryce (OH) Sandlin Slaughter Tauzin Terry

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[RedBloodedAmerican]

This is judt too funny.

Democrats must be having a fit over their party leaders.

[reagandemocrat]

"Hmmmmm. Kerry is contagious. Rangel voted [wrote] it before he voted against it"--- LOL...