Posted on 10/13/2004 2:43:28 PM PDT by Angry Republican
The election is just three weeks away. With military action in liberating Iraq an election issue we thought we'd review who in the Senate votes on principle and who on politics when it comes to committing our troops to battle.
We examined the voting record of each sitting Senator. We looked at the three votes authorizing U.S. military action against Iraq: 91, 98 and 2002. We looked for patterns where Republicans voted to support the two Bushes in 91 and 2002 and against Clinton in 98; and vice versa. We included those Senators who had cast votes when serving in the House in 1991 prior to being elected to the Senate.
Of 52 Senators who served in Congress since 1991, we found a dozen who all voted "yea" when their party controlled the White House and "nay" when the opposing party's candidate was President. Was this just a coincidence or were these Senators playing politics with our service men and women? You'll have to decide for yourself. We've listed all twelve here.
However, in our opinion, these dozen politicians don't care about our nation's defense or our military's safety when casting their votes. For these 12, committing our troops into battle is all about party politics. This is as irresponsible as an elected official can be: sending our troops into battle over partisan politics.
We'll look at the voting record of House members in coming days.
And that's the Point.
I'm Mark Hyman.
I am beginning to really like the Sinclair folks!
Carl Lenin and Debbie Stabmenow SUCK.
All 12 Demo'rats!
All 12 Demo'rats!
You noticed.
I just wanted to make it explicit,
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