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Six House Republicans voted against Iraq Resolution: Here Are The Names

Posted on 10/10/2002 5:36:55 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

REPUBLICANS
who chose to not support their President:

1. John J. Duncan (Tennessee, 2nd District)
http://www.house.gov/duncan/

2. John Hostettler (Indiana, 8th)
http://www.house.gov/hostettler/

3. Amo Houghton (New York, 31st District)
http://www.house.gov/hostettler/

4. Jim Leach (Iowa, 1st)
http://www.house.gov/leach/

5. Connie Morella (Maryland, 8th)
http://www.house.gov/morella/

6. Ron Paul (Texas, 14th)
http://www.house.gov/paul/


TOPICS: Announcements; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Indiana; US: Iowa; US: Maryland; US: New York; US: Tennessee; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: iraq; republicans; vote; war
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To: sinkspur
Ron Paul gives Saddam Hussein a big old hug!

Ron's lost it.

121 posted on 10/11/2002 1:43:35 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: YCTHouston
It is not the government's money, it is the taxpayers' money.

It's stolen money that rightfully belongs to the taxpayers. Government simply usurped it and now decides what is to be done with it - a denial of the fundamental choice of that money's rightful owners. That being the case, I'd simply rather not get it than have a greasy piece of pork with all the government mess attached to it.

Take Metro for the perfect case - theoretically, when Tom DeLay blocks Metro from getting federal funding, he's preventing the "taxpayer's money" from being "returned" to Houston. Yet you have to ask yourself - do you want that money to go to Houston in the first place seeing as it will be used to build a light rail line that we don't need and that will cause a headache and traffic jam for millions of commuters every year? I'd rather have nothing than a money for a light rail line because that government funded light rail line makes my community a less desirable place to live.

I also detest bicyclists and would rather not have them on a government funded trail in my community, so Tom Daschle can have the bike trails for all I care. Let them be his headache as they dart out into traffic, oblivious to street lines and stop signs and under the absurd impression that they somehow have equal rights with an automobile to use our roadways for their 10mph enviro-friendly foot powered scraps of non-self-standing fender denting aluminum.

122 posted on 10/11/2002 2:03:31 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: sinkspur
You Libertarians are proving irrelevant in the war on terrorism.

The limpertarians are irrelevant in everything they do. They'd rather talk about the economy or ending the drug war while an illegal alien sets off a suitcase bomb that forms a mushroom cloud over one of our cities.

Ron Paul is not a limpertarian, I heard him in person earlier this year when he was stating the areas where he differs with the limps, abortion being one of the bigger issues. The limps like to claim him as one of their own because that way he's their only office holder anywhere. Since their national limp candidates get 75 votes nationwide every four years, they can pretend one of their guys actually won an election and is in congress.

123 posted on 10/11/2002 2:04:56 AM PDT by BUSHdude2000
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To: Recovering_Democrat
I will email them all. I watched CSPAN and wrote down the “aye's” and “no's”.

Our junior senator up here in MA... you know, the one who was a Viet Nam hero/turncoat, who wants to be president, voted “aye”.

McCain gave a good speach last night. I think he might be getting his marbles back.

Byrd was “Shaking and Baking”... he could hardly hold the papers in his hand.

If nobody noticed, he took Bush's document and dropped it on the floor... stepping on it.

Senator Byrd... dem senator from WV... former member of the KKK and nobody brings it up.

I don't believe in elder abuse but I'd forgive it if somebody pushed him down a flight of stairs.

124 posted on 10/11/2002 2:22:10 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: GOPcapitalist
"theoretically, when Tom DeLay blocks Metro from getting federal funding, he's preventing the "taxpayer's money" from being "returned" to Houston."

Theoretically, perhaps. The difference, and it is significant, is that DeLay will fight to have that money "returned" for useful projects such as highways, rather than abdicating his duty so he can dress up in a powdered wig and pretend to be a Founding Father.

Another difference:DeLay isn't confused about our priorities. He votes in favor of national defense.
125 posted on 10/11/2002 2:28:29 AM PDT by YCTHouston
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To: cynicom
Houghton is an ex marine...

Then what's his problem? His stands on things surprise me even more with a military background.....I know the military's morale is much higher with Bush as the Commander-in-Chief than with Klintoon......for just one. There's lots of other reasons why one could respect Bush as compared to Klintoon......or many past presidents (except Reagan, who Bush only can come close to).

126 posted on 10/11/2002 3:43:47 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: johnny7
Senator Byrd... dem senator from WV... former member of the KKK and nobody brings it up.

Sean Hannity does and has, all the time. On t.v. and radio. It's great. Especially this past week, he's been asking, almost every night, including last night, again, if the Rats he interviews are know of any Republican Senator or Congressman who is formerly a KKK member, and then tells them if there is, he would ask them "tonight" to resign.....there's nary a reply to that question.

127 posted on 10/11/2002 3:46:46 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Not surprised about the rhino from iowa.
128 posted on 10/11/2002 3:51:27 AM PDT by RWG
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To: Recovering_Democrat
All shadow republicans(!?)who are in the pockets of and can be counted on by the lying Dems.

Not surprising couldn't we say?

129 posted on 10/11/2002 4:00:21 AM PDT by VOYAGER
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To: Lloyd227
"...because Saudi Arabia had much more to do with those events than Iraq did, and we still consider Saudi Arabia to be one of our allies. ".....be patient, SA will get it's turn in the near future, we got to start somewhere and Iraq will provide the "Base" and the $'s to do what we must do!
130 posted on 10/11/2002 4:53:04 AM PDT by iopscusa
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To: Recovering_Democrat
Amo Houghton is a liberal. His district includes the People's Republic of Ithaca. He gave bubba a pass on impeachment.
131 posted on 10/11/2002 5:24:30 AM PDT by wny
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To: nopardons
sorry. in my own little private protest I took on the nic of getoutdabushes. unfortunately that name gives people the wrong impression of where I am coming from. I asked Jim Robinson if I could change my nickname and he let me.

I thought people were done responding to me when I asked for the change.
132 posted on 10/11/2002 5:25:21 AM PDT by Nam68
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To: leilani
Say what? This maniac has not only been gassing Kurds

Kurds are not Americans. When maniacal Hutus hacked to death tens of thousands of Tutsis in Rwanda America didn't have a dog in that fight either.

Are you happy to learn that your government provided Hussien the materials, at U.S. taxpayer expense, to develop and deploy these weapons? Seems like more interventionism coming back to bite us in the ass. First we build these monsters, then we get to knock them down.

he's been funding the murder of American toddlers.

You'll need to explain that one a little better. The embargo we've placed on the Iraqi people (in an unsuccessful bid to get their dictator to bend to our will) has resulted in a massive increase in infant mortality rates. In the more than ten year period we've held sanctions in place over 500,000 Iraqi children have died that wouldn't have without the embargo in place. The Iraqi people are being made to suffer not only at the hands of Saddam, but the world at large. Do you think it hurts him when more children die before the age of 1 in Iraq? It's clear he doesn't care about his subjects, but we hurt them to pressure him?

133 posted on 10/11/2002 5:46:55 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: nicmarlo
nic....

American history, since 1900, is replete with wealthy families that have amassed huge fortunes as capitalists. As the founders died off, their idle rich offspring have turned to socialism. Houghton is one such. Many of the idle rich kids have turned to politics as the socially "in" thing to do. Houghton is one. Rockefellers, Kennedys, Fords and on and on.

Their idleness is filled with so called "public service", which can be translated as a lust for power.

134 posted on 10/11/2002 6:02:34 AM PDT by cynicom
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To: BUSHdude2000
If Ron's initiative on the Marque and Reprisal issue had been enacted, Osama and Saddams heads would be adorning pikes outside of the White House right about now.

Now, we are going to fight a war run by politicians. No war has ever been won by a political committee. Polling numbers were one of the major reasons we didn't get Saddam the first time around.

Who's the "limp"? Someone sticking to a workable solution against enormous opposition? Or a bunch of sheep following the political herds polling data?

135 posted on 10/11/2002 6:15:34 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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To: Gunslingr3
What are you? An idiot, a coward, or just a plain 'ole Traitor. Your Blame America first attitude will get no quarter here.
136 posted on 10/11/2002 10:16:54 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: YCTHouston
Theoretically, perhaps. The difference, and it is significant, is that DeLay will fight to have that money "returned" for useful projects such as highways

No he won't. He shipped it off to Pennsylvania in George Gekas' district.

137 posted on 10/11/2002 10:19:17 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: sphinx
Hostettler is one of the half-dozen most conservative guys in the House, but he marches to his own drummer.

I kind of see Hostetller as a combination strict constructionalist like Scalia and somewhat of an isolationists in the model of Buchanan. I think both of those played a role in his descision.

138 posted on 10/11/2002 10:30:40 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: KQQL
>> Connie Morella (Maryland, 8th) <<

Thank God I don't live in her district. Choosing between Morella and a 'RAT is like choosing between AIDS or Bubonic Plaque. Skipping the race isn't enough -- I'd cast a write-in vote for myself just to be able to vote AGAINST this socialist quack without having to vote Dem.

139 posted on 10/11/2002 11:24:38 AM PDT by BillyBoy
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To: rdb3
>> I hear ya. I was looking for someone from Ohio, but was very pleased not to find one from the home State. I was looking for one from my second State, Texas, and was getting excited until... You know. <<

Same here. Illinois has at least one RINO Congressman, and that is Mark "the squish" Kirk. His American Conservative Union rating is a whooping 48% (which means our "Republican" votes with the 'RATs the MAJORITY of the time). Incredibly, his 'RAT opponent is so far left that he THINKS Kirk "rubber stamps the right-wing of his party"

RINO Kirk would love to betray the President once again, but his vote is decided by the latest polls. "The polls" show the public supports the President on this issue, so RINO boy cast his token "yes" vote.

I still don't trust him.

140 posted on 10/11/2002 11:30:38 AM PDT by BillyBoy
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