Mark is pissed and rightly so. This cave in to Bush is not what you liberals expected from your Democrat controlled Congress. I'm glad to see some actual annoyance at being screwed instead of just goalpost moving and finding new ways to explain the cave in positively, like the DCCC did.
THEN: Two weeks ago, President Bush vetoed our legislation to demand accountability in Iraq and declared he would only sign a bill without any accountability for his management of the war.
NOW: Now, the President has agreed to accountability and reporting provisions. That means for the first time we can force the President to be held accountable for his endless war in Iraq. We canceled the President's blank check in Iraq.
Accountability? That sounds good, it doesn't sound at all like the Dems blinked and caved. I guess you can't raise funds if you really said what happened. Then: Two weeks ago, Pres Bush vetoed legislation with a timetable for withdrawl from Iraq. Now: We dropped the whole timetable thingy so he'd sign it. Don't we suck? Aren't we a complete bunch of pussies?
R.I.P. Steven Malcolm Anderson
This issue was important enough for Ted Kennedy to vote against a minimum wage hike.
Ted Kennedy!?!
Minimum Wage?
He said, thanks, but no thanks. Unreal.
Sherrod Brown talks like he's the Russ Feingold of the Buckeye State, but he votes like Mike DeWine. 1st he voted for the Military Commissions Act in the House while he was running -- approving the end of habeas corpus and giving the President unprecedented powers to lock up anyone with or without cause, without trial, counsel or even the curtesy of being charged with a crime. Then he voted against Reid-Feingold, which would have stopped all funding of the war after March 31, 2008. Now he votes for perpetual funding of a war with no end, no check, no balance, no oversight, no nothing.
Well, Sherrod, thanks for nothing, you poseur.
And Reid? He's ridiculous. They all are. Pelosi's leadership skills are an oxymoron. She votes against something she negotiated but still won't stand behind? It's so stupid and embarassing.
Unless you count John Boehner crying in a drunken stupor on the House floor -- now that was embarassing.
It's clear that they are playing the "support the troops" card by fully funding the war. I guess they assume that American voters are that stupid to believe that funding this insane war is the only way to support the troops. The best way to really support the troops is to put enormous pressure on the Iraqis to get their shit together by bringing our troops home ASAP.
They are afraid, that makes them cowards.
Who stood up on the Senate Floor to denouce this folly? A bona fide war hero, John Kerry.
When you can answer that question, you'll know why so many Dems voted with the majority on this one.
I’m sure. Damned shame we can never expect the least such honest criticism and accountability from the Republican followers of the disastrous Bush Administration.