Posted on 10/05/2004 9:30:21 PM PDT by neverdem
EXCELLENT!!!!!
Rush always says these people are engaging in transferrence. You can't get a better example of that than the author of the draft bill condemning the Republicans of playing politics with it.
Who voted for it if Rangel voted against it? And is this the first time an author has voted against his own legislation?
Who the heck voted "yes" on this? There are only 2.
Who were the 2 who voted in favor?
Hmmm.
Low AND middle-income people shoulder much of the burden, eh?
In an all-volunteer military.
Imagine that.
Only in a Dim mind can that be a bad thing...
They must even be smarter than John Kerry.
I shudder in awe at their "complexity"
to spotlight how low- and middle-income Americans shoulder much of the burden of serving in the military.
Isn't this an argument for military pay raises? After all, if someone is in the military, then most (if not all) of their income is from their job, i.e. the military.
So there are no rich people in the military - that seems perfectly normal to me. The military doesn't pay enough to make you rich.
And if there are poor people in the military (as I'm sure there are), perhaps the answer is to raise military pay, rather than FORCE SOMEBODY ELSE to join for low pay.
I admit that I scanned it, but did it really say that Rangel voted against it? The two quotes by Rangel in the article didn't seem to indicate to me that he voted against it.
Stark & Murtha
I wonder if See BS covered this story?
"The Democrats originally introduced the measure early last year as a way to protest the war...."
"It is a prostitution of the legislative process to take a serious issue and use it for political purposes on the eve of the election just to say they are against the draft," said Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of New York, the author of the bill, who ended up voting against it.
If that's a 'prostitution of the legislative process', then what do you call creating a prank bill to be used by your political party to scare parents and adolescents into voting for you or else suffer forced labor and possibly death?
What do you call that, Mr. Rangel?
I would have thought it better to leave it hanging in the fire with extended debate while all the Pubbies blast it as a rat scheme to enslave America's youth.
I don't know, but it usually only happens after poison pill amendments are tacked on. If it was a clean bill, i.e. no attached amendments, it could be a first. It shows what a cynical dem Rangel is. He's a Korean Veteran, and was my Congressman at one time.
I watched some of the debate on the house floor today on this and the lies that were flowing out of the mouths of the democrats were unreal. I had to turn it off.
Hot tub Tom is an effn stud. Charlie Rangel hasn't been spanked that bad since the DNC convention in San Francisco.
To elaborate:
Rep. John Murtha (D) and Rep. Pete Stark (D) were the ONLY members of Congress to try and enact the "Republican" plot to bring back the draft.
EVERY "R" in Congress voted AGAINST the secret "Republican" plot (which was coincidentially written and sponcered by DEMOCRATS) to bring back the draft.
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