Senate vote research on Iraq votes (Kerry)

Senate Roll Call ^ | 3/9/04 | aynrandfreak

[aynrandfreak]

I can respect those Senators that voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq & voted for the $87 billion to fund the troops. That list includes the following Democrats:

Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Daschle (D-SD)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Miller (D-GA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Schumer (D-NY)

I guess Kerry needed to help Sens. Daschle, Clinton, etc. understand why it was wrong to vote to fund our troops.

I can also somewhat respect those senators that voted against the authorization for war, but then at least voted for the $87 billion to make sure our troops were supported. Those Senators are:

Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Chafee (R-RI) (the most liberal Republican in the Senate)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Inouye (D-HI)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA) (after saying that Bin Laden was a daycare operator, she danced to the center)
Reed (D-RI)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Kerry needed to better explain to these colleagues that a vote to authorize the use of force was actually a vote against the war. Maybe it could've been a unanimous vote.

Also, on a certain level, I can even respect the consistency of those Senators that voted against the war and against funding the troops (the damage that their 'consistency' would do to this country notwithstanding). Those Senators are:

Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Graham (D-FL)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sarbanes (D-MD)


But I can't respect are those Senators that voted to authorize the war, but then voted against funding the troops:

Edwards (D-NC) (Candidate, Dean pushed him left after the war)
Harkin (D-IA) (ran for re-election in '02 in-between votes)
Hollings (D-SC) 10/2/03 the Senate passed an amendment 98-1 commending our troops in the War on Terror (Hollings was the one vote against)

Kerry (D-MA) Kerry is Kerry. Nuff said.

[aynrandfreak]

Only three other Senators besides Kerry voted for the war & not to authorize funds for them. It's a pretty sorry group

[I still care]

Like Bush said, he's been in Congress long enough to be on both sides of every issue.

[spyone]

But it has worked for him, hasn't it? He is now running for President of the United States. He's an operator...doesn't give a rats ass about the issues...it's all about positioning.

[armymarinemom]

Does this mean that if the Democratic Party calls my house for a donation, I can pledge the money then not deliver? I'm sure that he wouldn't appreciate being the democratic nominee and then having his campaign funds cut. The big difference is that he would wake up the next day and many of our troops didn't. His votes were a slap in the face to our troops and the Iraqi people.

[dufekin]

How dare you question the patriotism of the distinguished junior Senator from the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts who served in Vietnam, among others? Don't you understand that John F. Kerry served in Vietnam? John F. Kerry is a war hero; Bush is a deserter--or at least he went absent without official leave (AWOL)! That's enough said about Kerry's superb views on national defense, terrorism, and Communism: he cannot be wrong; he served in Vietnam. And don't you dare question his good compatriot Benedict Arnold either. C'mon, get it straight--or you'll have one President-elect Kerry very mad at you! (That he will beat George W. Bush in 2004 is beyond question or doubt. After all, did I tell you? John F. Kerry served in Vietnam.)



(sarcasm)

[Dilbert56]

I'm waiting for someone to answer one of these "How dare you question my patriotism?" with a simple "It's called the First Amendment and it hasn't been repealed".

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me .. he's not the president yet!

[Enduring Freedom]

Flip-flopping a-way.

Flip-flopping a-way-ay-ay-ay.

Ya' know the nearer you get to President,

The more ya',

Flip-flopping a-way.

[FReethesheeples]

Nasty John the Waffling French Undertaker, who is behind the atatacks on GWB's 9/11 ad, per the American Spectator.

Kerry, who is personally endorsed by Haiti's Aristide, Iran's Mullahs, Traitor "Red Jane" Fonda, Kim Jong Il, (& Kim Il Jong), Mugabe, Marxist thug Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba, & France's Jacques Chirac, is a weapon of mass economic destruction.

He'll destroy the troops in Iraq, the War on Terrorism,

& the U.S. stock market with all his negative talk and whiny-leftist-liberal sour-puss troop-bashing, Bush-bashing, America-bashing talk & self-aggrandizing, ultra-negative sourpuss whiny elitist personality.

[geedee]

. . . doesn't give a rats ass about the issues . . .

LOL. Perhaps you should read the Democratic Charter. That is Commandment Numero Uno . . . Thou shalt not give a rats ass about any issue!

[ConservativeMan55]

Bump, LOL!