Senate Rejects Call to Withdraw Troops

Yahoooo via AP ^ | 6/22/06

[areafiftyone]

Looks like only 13 Dems voted for troop Withdrawal!

[MNJohnnie]

Curious. They don't tell us the vote totals. Anyone know what the vote was?

[rhombus]

Looks like only 13 Dems voted for troop Withdrawal!

Ins't that more than last time? The tide is turning...Republicans in disaray. Schedule another debate. ;-)

[steveegg]

And they're on the vaguer start withdrawing at the end of the year one. It looks like a virtual-party-line vote.

[davidosborne]

KERRY CUT AND RUN PLAN GETS 13 VOTES !!!!

[areafiftyone]

13 Ayes
86 Nays

[davidosborne]

KERRY CUT AND RUN PLAN GETS 13 VOTES !!!!

[hsalaw]

those dismissals did not explain why Democratic leaders spent more than a week trying to write a "consensus" proposal that they hoped would persuade Kerry and Feingold to drop their own, which would set a "date certain" for ending the U.S. combat mission.

The dems tried to get rid of the Kerry-Feingold proposal of withdrawal by 7/1/07 because even they recognized it was CUT AND RUN and nothing else, and the dems are trying to portray themselves as something OTHER than CUT AND RUN. Just what that is, I don't know.

[MNJohnnie]

In an 86-13 vote, the Senate turned back a Democratic proposal that would require the administration to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007, with redeployments beginning this year. A second vote on another Democratic proposal to begin withdrawing, but with no timetable for the war's end, was planned immediately afterward.

Buried at the very end of the Asso Propaganda story. Should of been the banner headline. So yet again AP trys to cover up Democrat political disaster

[davidosborne]

KERRY CUT AND RUN PLAN GETS 13 VOTES !!!!

NEXT UP IS THE LEVIN CUT AND RUN PLAN !!

[PISANO]

The Levin Amendment will go down also but by a smaller margin than JFK's.

The MSM will undoubtedly report these two votes as a CHANGING TIDE towards TROOP withdrawal & redeployment, rather than major DEFEATS for both.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Curious that there is no vote tally in the article.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats keep slamming the door in their own face. As for the Drive By Media polls, they're been trumpeting that half the year. There's no substance to it or else the Democrats would be able to carry the American people with them on the War. They can't do so no matter how hard they try. If I was a betting man, I'd say the odds are good nothing will change after November.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[areafiftyone]

LOL That's because the AP is having oxygen tanks sent over to them.

[soloNYer]

That was curious, maybe the AP doesn't want to scare Dems that most of their own leaders rejected their insane calls to cut & run.

[PISANO]

NEXT UP IS THE LEVIN CUT AND RUN PLAN

Or as Senator McConnell calls it "The CUT & JOG PLAN".

[IrishMike]

Compliments of MNJohnnie....

In an 86-13 vote, the Senate turned back a Democratic proposal that would require the administration to withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007, with redeployments beginning this year. A second vote on another Democratic proposal to begin withdrawing, but with no timetable for the war's end, was planned immediately afterward.

[davidosborne]

LOL !!

[goldstategop]

Seven more than the last vote. The Democrats have yet to convince a majority of their party to embrace the kook position to commit suicide now.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")