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Dems push Rumsfeld no-confidence vote
CNN.com ^
| September 5, 2006
Posted on 09/05/2006 10:43:38 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic senators will try to present a no-confidence measure on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to the full Senate on Wednesday in an effort to persuade President Bush to sack the outspoken Pentagon chief, Democratic aides said.
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California was the first to move publicly on the measure, which will be attached to a defense appropriation bill, but Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is expected to offer the proposal.
Democrats in the House of Representatives are likely to offer a similar proposal, a senior Democratic aide said.
The Senate's Republican leadership may prevent a vote on the measure, and Rumsfeld would remain in office even if it passes the Republican-controlled Senate, which is unlikely.
However, such a move would force Republicans to cast what would amount to a vote of confidence in Rumsfeld -- one of the architects of the increasingly unpopular war in Iraq -- before November's midterm elections, a Democratic strategist close to the House said last week. It also would give the Democratic Party a chance to show a united front on Iraq.
Rumsfeld has said he has offered his resignation before, and Bush has refused it. The president said in April that he wanted Rumsfeld to stay, declaring, "I'm the decider."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; crybabies; dopeydems; losers; noconfidence; rats; rummy; rumsfeld; ussenate; vermin
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Anything to undermine the war effort!
They're not called 'Rats for nothing!
To: Aussie Dasher
And when do we hold the no-confidence vote of the Dems?
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:44:52 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
To: msnimje
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:45:44 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Dems push Rumsfeld no-confidence vote Stupid is as Stupid does.
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:46:34 PM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: Aussie Dasher
To: trumandogz
We should all watch McCain VERY closely.
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:48:19 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: trumandogz
How will the RINOs vote? Same as they always do: just like Democrats.
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:50:10 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Kindness to the cruel is cruelty to the kind.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Note to the Dhimmicrats...
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:51:14 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(Kindness to the cruel is cruelty to the kind.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Only the President " shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for,..."
Any vote of confidence isn't worth the venom used to spit it out.
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:51:57 PM PDT
by
LexBaird
(Another member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/NWO/Illuminati conspiracy for global domination!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Boxer talking about "lack of confidence" in Rummy????
Hell, the stupid bitch get more obnoxious by the week...
She is CLEARLY a member of the self loathing stupid tribe of Jews - most of whom ended up in the Democrat party.
To make matter worse - the Stupid Party in my state can't seem to find anyone worthy to run against her...
Semper Fi
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:55:23 PM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: msnimje
re: when do we hold the no-confidence vote of the Dems?
First Tuesday after the first Monday in November!
To: Aussie Dasher
In November!!!
I feel kinda left out on that front. Where I live there is not a viable Democrat within the reach of my vote.
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posted on
09/05/2006 10:59:37 PM PDT
by
msnimje
(What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
To: Aussie Dasher
"Democratic senators will try to present a no-confidence measure on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to the full Senate on Wednesday..."
Would someone like to remind the Dems that they aren't in Parliament, that this is a worthless procedure?
The Administration will pay it no heed, the voters will see it for what it is and they'll start bellering next week about how Karl Rove made them look like fools (again).
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:01:00 PM PDT
by
decal
(The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
To: msnimje
And when do we hold the no-confidence vote of the Dems?We held the last big one in 2004, and we're coming up on another one this November. Support Diane Irey against that fool Murtha as part of your "no-confidence in the dems" strategy. I just wish we could run a decent Republican against that fool Boxer here in CA, not that it would make any difference the way we're jerrymandered.
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:01:12 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: msnimje
"Viable Democrat"
Having a bit of trouble comprehending the concept...
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:01:14 PM PDT
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
Ah, yes, Boxer and Reid. Pride of the Dems.
Who cares what they are "pushing for"? How can anyone, much less Dems, take a single thing they utter seriously?
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:01:44 PM PDT
by
Zarro
(We Support Governor Rossi)
To: Aussie Dasher
I'd purely love to tell all those traitors exactly where they can push their N-C vote!
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:02:31 PM PDT
by
snuffy smiff
(All skill is in vain when an Angel pisses in the flintlock of yer musket.)
To: Aussie Dasher
"Viable Democrat"Oxymoron.
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:02:41 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: Prime Choice
We all know how the Democrats will vote.
But how will McCain, Snowe, Chafee et al......
To: Aussie Dasher
And the Dems great plan for 21st Century Warfighting is ..... drum roll please..... Surrender
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posted on
09/05/2006 11:08:22 PM PDT
by
tomnbeverly
(Radical Islam is a disease and George W. Bush is the cure.)
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