Anxious Dems eye power of the purse on Iraq(Rangel Promises-Cut Off Funding In Iraq If Dem Win House

The Hill ^ | September 26, 2006 | Bob Cusack

[mainepatsfan]

He just handed Karl Rove a baseball bat to beat the Dems with.

[magoo70804]

Cmon, just in a little and I will respect you in the morning.

[tenthirteen]

This is the same crap the Democrats pulled in Vietnam. I'm really sick of these traitors.

[eyespysomething]

Wow, it would be just like Vietnam then!

[mainepatsfan]

The last thing the Dems wanted to see was a motivated GOP voter base. Well they're going to have to deal with one now.

[defconw]

Please this needs to go out to all the unappeasables that think we should lose the Congress. I know they are nuts, but do they get it NOW?

[misterrob]

If this comes to pass then the Iraqis will be told that they have one year to get their act together. Expect Iraq to then fall under Iran's influence and that will be that.

[kellynla]

"Cut & Run" Rangel

[gov_bean_ counter]

Still, Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.), who has a bill seeking to prohibit funds to deploy armed forces to Iraq, says Democrats “have various positions on the war” and is skeptical that leadership will adopt an approach similar to his legislation.

Some of those positions allow them to grab the ankles, while others only allow for resting hands on knees or thighs. In short their positions only differ by degrees.

[onyx]

For sure. We'll have to develop a special ping list.

[LIConFem]

Ol' Charlie should have his head encased in lucite, and put on display at Bellview.

[Brad from Tennessee]

I remember Rangel promising to leave politics if the Democrats did not take the House this season. He made that statement during a surge of bad news for Republicans. He has not repeated this pledge for several months and now wishes he'd never said it. Alec Baldwin was supposed to move to France after Bush won in 2004.

[mlbford2]

Be prepared for the "that's not what i meant" press release after the negative polls come back.

[highlander_UW]

But when pressed on how he could stop the war even if Democrats control the House during the last years of President Bush’s second term, Rangel paused before saying, “You’ve got to be able to pay for the war, don’t you?”

So the dems admit that they'd chose to leave our troops in Iraq without funding for the equipment they need?! Pure evil...and then they wonder why people consider them traitors and immoral. that makes them stupid AND evil.

[Texas Songwriter]

Is this on video? Lord, I hope so.

[jveritas]

You’ve got to be able to pay for the war, don’t you?”

This statement by Rangel should be used in a campaign ad against the defeatists and traitors in the democrat party, and the ad will be very effective.

[Brilliant]

They'll lose the war for sure.

[defconw]

"Not gonna do it(post what I am thinking), wouldn't be prudent at this juncture". GHWB. :)

[PhiKapMom]

The gift that keeps on giving! Hope the stupid party keeps this up from now until the election to remind some folks that cannot see the forest for the trees what the House of Representatives would be like with the likes of Rangel, Conyers, Pelosi, et al in charge.

I am beginning to think we have a lot of Dims pretending to be conservative on here that push their one-issue mentality on every thread. Those that threaten to stay home because both parties are alike are nothing but disruptors IMHO out to depress the vote.

Kind of like how the media is attacking Sen George Allen. Any site or person that is a threat gets their (Dim) treatment, and they think they are being so clever. Immigration seems to be their #1 topic they think will split conservatives and give them power -- wrong!

Most of us broken glass Republicans are not about to let the Dims back in power and won't let any one issue keep us from voting!

[Steel Wolf]

He just admitted that he would leave our troops in harms way because there would be no money for munitions much less for evacuation when they can't defend themselves. They would then be sitting ducks.

Supplemental funding for the war isn't the same as the military budget. Even if all of the extra money disappeared, they'd still have resources to leave, albiet in a way that a Marine in the Korean war once described as "Advancing in the other direction".

It would by far be the most embarassing and televised retreat in American military history. You'd never get a majority of Dems to vote on a cut like that, even if some of them secretly want it, to prove a point.