Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

House passes resolution rebuking the president on Iraq {246-182}
CNN ^ | February 16, 2007 | Unsigned

Posted on 02/16/2007 12:41:40 PM PST by .cnI redruM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House issued a symbolic rejection of President Bush's decision to deploy more troops to Iraq on Friday, opening an an epic confrontation between Congress and commander in chief over an unpopular war that has taken the lives of more than 3,100 U.S. troops.

The vote on the nonbinding measure was 246-182.

Resolution criticized President Bush for his decision to send more troops to Iraq is a rare admonishment of a wartime commander-in-chief.

"The passage of this legislation signal a change in direction that will end the fighting and bring our troops home," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said before the vote when she endorsed the measure that takes issue with Bush's decision to send an additional 21,500 U.S. troops into battle.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 17forremoval; 17losers; 17rinos; 2008; cheeseeaters; congress; enemywithin; governmentterrorists; justlikefrance; losers; mccarthywasright; nonbindingwusses; pelosercrats; rinos; sedition; shamelesstraitors; surrenderchimps; traitors; trators; treason; two
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 221-240241-260261-280281-293 next last
To: Preachin'
"I want to see these people be honest, and lay it on the table with real money, or lack thereof"

I agree. This is real life not pretend. Let's see who is who. Let them declare.


241 posted on 02/16/2007 4:21:11 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: .cnI redruM

My e-mail to Nick Lampson:

"Congressman Lampson,

I consider your vote today rejecting President Bush's new plan for victory in Iraq a disgrace to the district (which you only represent due to a technicality that kept a viable Republican candidate off the ballot). Clearly you don't respect your constituents or feel any obligation to represent their majority views. I wish that didn't extend to providing aid and comfort to our enemies, but, in that regard, you are a fitting representative for your defeatist, anti-American party.

Anxiously awaiting 2008..."

P.S. I'm just assuming he voted to reject Bush's plan. If he didn't, I guess I'll feel kind of stupid, but what are the odds?


242 posted on 02/16/2007 4:26:57 PM PST by MeanFreePath
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jjm2111

Seventeen was far fewer than the DemoncRATs were saying they were going to get. This was a meaningless resolution put together by irrational losers.


243 posted on 02/16/2007 4:28:45 PM PST by conservative blonde (Let's call the Jr. Senator from Illinois by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: PhiKapMom
Don't get your hopes up. That district is a classical "yellow dog" Democrat district. Those people will elect (almost) anybody so long as they have that D by their name.

Look at what Synar had to do to get himself un-elected.

244 posted on 02/16/2007 4:37:47 PM PST by OKSooner
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 151 | View Replies]

To: .cnI redruM


May God Protect Those Who Protect
Our Nation

245 posted on 02/16/2007 4:55:49 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Marathoner

Are you kidding?


246 posted on 02/16/2007 4:56:24 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Oprah is a phony money grubbing self centered sleeze ..Now we see how you made your 1.5 Billion!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: xzins
The President should announce that he will veto the measure (even though it isn't being forwarded), and those who voted against it should announce that they will not change their votes to allow the veto to be overridden.

Then, the President should issue a written Executive Finding of Rebuke against the members voting "to defund and demoralize our troops as well as embolden our enemies."

The House Republican minority leader should read it into the Congressional Record.

I agree with your post, but also believe that President Bush is a polictal coward and will never do anything that can be even remotely considered "confrontational" to the Democrats.

247 posted on 02/16/2007 5:21:13 PM PST by Conservative_Rob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 200 | View Replies]

To: bnelson44
Hotair has a great video up. Go here to see it:

http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/16/246-congressman-17-republicans-disapprove-of-sending-20000-more-troops-to-iraq/

Wow. That video sent chills down my spine.

248 posted on 02/16/2007 5:23:20 PM PST by Bitter Bierce
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 167 | View Replies]

To: Conservative_Rob

I am a longtime supporter of the President.

I do not think he is a coward by any means.

His team has seriously misplayed the media to the point that I think it has to have been apathetic toward the information war.

He has a great economy, his war record is stellar, and his personal faith and likability make him an honorable man for his job.


249 posted on 02/16/2007 5:24:21 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 247 | View Replies]

To: .cnI redruM

The Democrats finally show their true agenda. It wasn't that they support the troops, that's just eye candy for the thoughtless masses. They really want to pull the rug out from under the whole effort.... not only bring the troops home but cut the funding... and let the Iraqis worry about it!

And you know something? They're right! Iraq is Vietnam all over again... and they're making damn sure that it is.... Vietnam was lost when a Democratically controlled congress pulled the same crap... and this bunch of hyenas is going to go down in history as having done the same thing.


250 posted on 02/16/2007 5:29:13 PM PST by karlmarx1957 (Pelosi --- queen of the traitors --- why couldn't they give her the Titanic instead of a jet?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Yes, I was going to say that this was the first real test of the newly elected so-called "Blue Dog/Conservative" Dems and they failed with flying colors.

A Dem is a Dem period.
251 posted on 02/16/2007 5:33:26 PM PST by headstamp (Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 100 | View Replies]

To: BillyBoy
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made this statement on plans by Majority Leader Harry Reid to schedule a vote on the Democratic Iraq resolution this weekend.

Reid today said he plans for the Senate to stay in session through the weekend and maybe into next week to debate the resolution currently under debate in the House of Representatives. The Democratic resolution opposes General Petraeus's new strategy in Iraq.

Earlier this month the Senate was scheduled to vote on a Democratic resolution opposing the troop surge but Democrats, unwilling to allow the Republicans to offer an alternative resolution, could not garner 60 votes to bring debate to a close.

The Senate Republicans can kill this so-called non binding reolution to surrender. This is the e-mail I sent to the top three Republicans in the Senate tonight . . . .

I am counting on you, as one of the leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate, to send the troops a message that the American people are not going to abandon them. Either you or another Republican Senator must stop the vote of surrender scheduled for this weekend.

There must be a filibuster of the so-called non binding resolution of non support for the troops unless there is a proper debate including votes, on the record, of whether or not the Democrats intend to defund the war effort, or demand a timetable for surrender. A proper debate, and votes on funding and timetables for withdrawal, will either illustrate to the American people that the Democrats have no intention of fighting against the Islamic terrorists who have stated repeatedly that they intend to bring America to its knees, or show the American people that this so-called non binding resolution for surrender is completely meaningless.

Only in the Senate does the Republican Party have the power to stop this headlong rush to surrender. I am asking you to use that power. If the Republicans do not do everything they can to stop this, then the ability of the Republican Party to retake the House and Senate, not to mention the White House, is greatly diminished. I cannot support a party that will not fight for the American serviceman.

At this point, I do not see America as being the land of the Americans who fought and died to create this country, maintain the union, and defend it against Nazism and Communism. I do not want a repeat of the abandonment of our allies as was shamefully orchestrated in the Congress after our retreat in Vietnam. Not to mention the utter disrespect for the American serviceman who put his life on the line so that today's Democrat Congressman could avoid the draft, smoke his pot, and march against the war in safety and comfort.

You and the rest of the Senate Republicans are the only ones who can stop this attempt to derail the extremely important effort to end the tyranny of Islamic Fascism in the Middle East. Do not abandon your responsibilities not only to the American serviceman, but to current and future Americans. America is not represented by the surrender cult of Democrats and Mainstream Media. Do not be intimidated by them. I am counting on you.

252 posted on 02/16/2007 5:35:15 PM PST by Conservative_Rob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 169 | View Replies]

To: rightinthemiddle

One is that kooky Ron Paul who some here want to be President of the United States.


253 posted on 02/16/2007 6:01:39 PM PST by msnimje (The ONLY Republican Candidate with ONE wife is Romney, the Mormon. Go figure.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: bnelson44
The seventeen Republicans:


Mark Kirk R-Illinois


Jim Ramstad R-Minnesota


Wayne Gilchrist R-Maryland


Michael N. Castle R-Delaware


Tom Davis R-Virginia


Howard Coble R-North Carolina


Steven C. LaTourette R-Ohio


James Walsh R-New York


Fred Upton R-Michigan


Tom Petri R-Wisconsin


Ron Paul R-Texas


Bob Inglis R-South Carolina


Tim Johnson R-Illinois


Ric Keller R-Florida


Phil English R-Pennsylvania


Walter Jones R-North Carolina


John J. Duncan, Jr. R-Tennessee


254 posted on 02/16/2007 6:03:44 PM PST by henbane
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: Conservative_Rob

" I agree with your post, but also believe that President Bush is a polictal coward and will never do anything that can be even remotely considered "confrontational" to the Democrats."

As soon as the last vote was cast,
President Bush should have been in front of the microphone, with smoke coming out of his ears and his hair on fire reiterating that he will never abandon the troops and will do everything in his power to see that they have the supplies and support they need, yada , yada.
It would have been a great morale boost for the troops and the base and reframed the debate.
It would be refreshing to see him fight back once in awhile , instead of always turning the other cheek.


255 posted on 02/16/2007 6:04:05 PM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 247 | View Replies]

To: karlmarx1957

They had to have the help of the American voters to do it.

Put the blame where it lies: On the people who elected them.


256 posted on 02/16/2007 6:18:02 PM PST by sport
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 250 | View Replies]

To: .cnI redruM
2 Dems voted against.

I guess that's the new spirit of cooperation and bipartisan, reaching-across-the aisle that they puked from their commies mouths for all of an entire week.
257 posted on 02/16/2007 6:23:35 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Guess again.


258 posted on 02/16/2007 6:46:34 PM PST by freema (Marine FRiend, 1stCuz2xRemoved, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: henbane

Thanks for adding the rogue's gallery.


259 posted on 02/16/2007 6:48:44 PM PST by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 254 | View Replies]

To: All
To those who feel that their congresscritter who has been a strong conservative betrayed you? Maybe you should look in their congressional sites under such tabs as speeches and read why they voted as they did. They may remind you about what being a conservative actually means. Not all of the ones mentioned but I know two made their case. John Duncan and Ron Paul. It doesn't mean they are anti-war if a nation attacks the USA either. Perhaps some want to make certain IF or When we are attacked on a large scale we actually have a military left to fight with and money left to fund it?

BTW Duncan voted no on the 2002 Resolution of force. He got reelected. His district is staunch Conservative. Not staunch GOP as such but Conservative.

260 posted on 02/16/2007 6:48:59 PM PST by cva66snipe (Rudy, the Liberal Media's first choice for the GOP nomination. Not on my vote not even in Nov 2008..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 221-240241-260261-280281-293 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson