Posted on 03/26/2007 7:28:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Hard votes cost politicians friends. And, for the moment at least, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison has lost a lot of his closest allies because of the vote he cast Friday to end the war in Iraq. After days of anguish, Ellison voted to support a bill that would require all U.S. combat troops out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2008.
That's not nearly soon enough for many who worked passionately to elect Ellison in November. They want the troops out now. And this afternoon, his office will be "occupied" with people who believe Ellison violated promises he had made to call for an immediate end to the war.
"We expected Keith Ellison to stand for better alternatives, like an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and the withholding of all funds for this unjust and immoral war," the Anti-War Committee's Katrina Plotz said in a statement. "His vote to continue the war for 18 months with $123 billion in additional funding is not an anti-war vote."
Moments before Ellison voted on what the Washington Post described as "one of the toughest antiwar measures ever to pass a house of Congress during active combat operations," Ellison was being lobbied by his friends.
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Then, I'll turn it up a notch.
The white metro-liberals just needed a pretext to dump him; he'll be challenged in 08.
Jim Webb has the means to keep clown pink from occupying his office. Ellison should give him a call.
Webb's boy is going to walk on that deal, isn't he?
"Which one - Ellison or Grow?"
Good point. I'll have to do double-time....
"...the Anti-War Committee's Katrina Plotz said in a statement."
Why is everyone named Katrina a raving commie?
Ah, the only good thing about the treasonous times in which we live must be watching these Quislings at each other's throats...... it should become a conscious strategy among Republicans to look out for any opportunities to help the rabid leftists feed on each other some more....
Minnesota "Republicans" aren't that sharp.....
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