Posted on 03/27/2007 2:52:00 PM PDT by HAL9000
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday endorsed a March 31, 2008, target date for withdrawing American combat troops from Iraq, moving Congress a step closer to a showdown with President George W. Bush over the war.By a vote of 50-48, the Senate defeated an amendment that would have stricken the withdrawal language from a $121.6 billion bill that mostly would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A final vote on the bill is expected later this week.
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"If they do not go along, the President could simply threaten to do to the Dems what Clinton did to the House Republicans, refuse to sign the other appropriations bills that come to his desk. This will make what happened in the 90s pale in compariso"
YEP, VETO everything that COMES into the OVAL Office and FIRE ALL PENTAGON and State DEPT HACKS that are CLINTON appointees! THen, during a recess, appoint the most conservative judges to fill ANY and ALL vacancies for the next year!
Exactly!
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I think I'll help to continue reminding people that they helped put bunch of freaking leftists in charge of Congress who are bent on destroying our country.
"Ever hear of gas taxes?"
Congress holds the purse strings. They say where the money is to be spent, not the President. The same goes for every other tax that we pay. The President controls the money that is appropriated by Congress to the Administration, the President can move a small percentage of that budget, but unless there is an emergency, almost all of that money has to go where Congress said it was to go.
"No, it's the other way around. This was an Amendment to the bill, so it needed a majority of yeas."
The amendement was to pull the portion of the bill that set a timeline. The Republicans, for the most part, wanted to remove that language, that was the function of the amendment. The democrats, for the most part, wanted the timeline left in, so they voted against the amendment to remove the timeline.
Right, that's what I said.
The President alienated most of the Reps in Congress by his support for McCain-Feingold and his pro-amnesty [versus enforcement first] stance on illegal immigration. He has run counter to most of the Rep members in Congress on these two very important issues. Loyalty begets loyalty.
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A new slant on the "blame Bush mantra. If he's right on the war he has to be supported.Its just that simple. We can't get back at people for perceived transgressions by cutting off our own noses to spite our faces. Haven't we learned from the '06 election/
The overwhelming majority of Reps in Congress are backing the President on the war. There are many reasons why we lost the 2006 midterms. I don't buy the facile explanation that conservative Reps did not turn out to vote because of their unhappiness with the performance of Bush or Congress, which is why we lost. If it were that simple, we would have no problem regaining both Houses of Congress in 2008. We won't.
Could you post the votes? I've been looking for it and all I can find is Rush gushing over Mitch McConnell and how brilliant his part was in this...?
Here ya go
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http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00116
Thank you very much. I was on that same site and couldn't locate the 'by senator' vote page - d-oh!
I see 1 RINO and 1 Dummy abstained. Also, the independent voted with the Dummies and one Dummy voted with the Republicans, so they canceled each other out.
Had the others voted, it would have been 51-49 anyway.
Enzi isn't a RINO, and he didn't "abstain". I think his mother is dying. He went home to meet with his family in the hospital. I haven't heard any more about it. Enzi was strongly opposed to the measure and would have voted no.
I imagine that if his vote was necessary, he would have actually stayed here. But it wasn't.
And Democrat Johnson didn't abstain either, he's "recovering" from being in a coma.
Thank you for sharing. I'm sorry to hear the circumstances, but I also noted the outcome wouldn't have changed had he participated.
They don't have the votes to override a veto so they'd be dumb to try it again, IMO.
Petitions to sign:
For military:
http://www.appealforcourage.org
For civilians:
http://www.johnmccain.com/involving/petition.aspx?guid=2a68ffa6-4b14-4dec-871b-cbf1f798a756
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