Posted on 10/05/2004 8:25:11 AM PDT by fanningp
Just heard on the radio (Charlie Sykes) that H.R. 163 (Rangel D-NY) Draft Bill, is scheduled for a vote tonight between 6pm-7pm. Wanna Bet EVERY House Republican votes AGAINST IT?
This is the first time I saw it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1229981/posts
Wanna bet? Your comment isn't logical. If the politicians are "cowards" for voting against it, that means they're afraid of someone - - i.e., their constituents, American people. They're afraid that they'd get voted out for supporting a draft. That's hardly an indications that "Americans would vote for it."
29 days before the election?
And if you can't see the headlines tomorrow, "GOP Approves Vote On Draft", then you're blind.
While I admire the kink of universal service that is in place in Switzerland and Israel it runs dead against the spirit of American volunteerism. We've never really used the draft as anything more than a unpopular rank filler and given the scale, a system such as the Israelis or Swiss employ would put us all in the 50% tax bracket without any positive benefit to military readiness. In fact it would undermine the great tradition we have of volunteerism.
As much as I would like to see universal basic training, I agree that Keyes and Kerry both have their heads where the sun doesn't shine on this one.
Question: "Senator Kerry, why did you not feel it important enough to cast a vote on this democrat draft proposal you've been claiming was a republican idea?"
The Republicans need to expose the Liberals as pro draft after this legislation.
No, I am unconcerned. You place more emphasis on the MSM than I do.
Actually this is pretty smart. The best way to kill the rumors is to let the bill come up for a vote and then let Rangle and maybe a handful of other liberals be the only ones to vote for it.
This subject has come up about 3 or 4 times on other non-political board I go to (via liberals trying to scare people) and it's more difficult to explain how it's sponsored only by democrats... it will never see the light of day...blah blah blah. It will be a lot easier to say "It came up for a vote and only a few Democrats voted for it."
LOLOL!!!
RUSH just said he thinks Rangle is going to vote AGAINST his own bill, this one, today.
Hmmmm, if true, let's see how much coverage this gets in the lamestream media.
We know it won't pass but this needs to be out front. The Dimz have been spewing their lies that Pres. Bush wants the draft and it needs to be shown that DIMZ are pushing for it.
I'll look forward to seeing this on the news tonight. Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. :-)
I'm going to make a wild guess, at NOT!
From World Net Daily at
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30736
"When Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., called for the return of the military draft to prevent black soldiers from dying on the front lines in disproportionate numbers, hardly anyone questioned his premise.
Maybe he was wrong about the draft, but few argued that blacks served on the front-lines in higher percentages than whites.
It turns out that premise, too, is dead wrong.
In fact, it's whites who serve on the front-lines in disproportionate numbers.
Thank USA Today, of all sources, for nailing down the numbers..."
bump
THANX for the Ping, Drill!
If this comes out for a floor vote, what will the fallout be?
I'll bring the popcorn and rum...
An excellent point. My thanks to you!
Naw, look at the time line, D. HR-169 was proposed right before OIF kicked off. The timing was deliberate - it's a protest straw dog that's about to ignite, should it ever get to the floor.
Pardon my ingorance, but "OIF"? wuzzat?
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