No surprises here - UPDATED
Greater Cincinnati's all-Republican U.S. House delegation all voted AGAINST the supplemental bill intended to pay for the Iraq war last night. The three Republican senators from Ohio and Kentucky also voted against it.
Why?
Well, for one, it requires President Bush to begin withdrawing U.S. troops out of Iraq starting Oct. 1 with a goal that all troops will be out six months later. For another, it is loaded up with countless pork projects... Read more HERE.
Here's the vote tally:
House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester: Nay
Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Westwood: Nay
Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Miami Township: Nay
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville: Nay
Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Hebron: Nay
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Louisville: Nay
Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Southgate: Nay
Sen. George Voinovich, R-Cleveland: Nay
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Lorain: Yea
See the House Roll Call vote HERE.
See the Senate Roll Call vote HERE.
The bill passed the House last night 212-208. It just passed the U.S. Senate 51-46 with three senators not voting.
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Post a Comment*huh ?
Does pay for war a right thing to do ?
Most "LIBERALS" do not agree!
Have wRong wingnut whacko rednecks the only vote?
The citizen certainly can agree !
lol, lol, lol
I suppose we shall tolerate ya'all vote for war!
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
Our surgically neutered bold typist is right on,as always.
The blood of these young soldiers is on the hands of these Republican elitest.
Start the draft and send their kids and grand-children first!!!!
Come on you "red-blooded" Republicans - how many in your family has signed up for YOUR war.
Or how about winning it - doing something other than prolonging the inevitable - you look more and more stupid every day
bad follower, bad follower
PATHETIC !
HAD ENOUGH, VOTE DEMOCRAT 2007 !
I'm a Dem but this doesn't make me happy. It is silly political posturing and is in now way responsible governance. And the pork...
We were supposed to be better than that.
OMG Malia, you are doing such a super awesome job at getting our Republican propaganda out there!!! Remember, as long as the Republicans keep our troops in Iraq, then there is no way the terrorists can possibly attack us on American soil!!! The Democrats want an exit strategy, but exit strategies are for losers!!! LOL!!!
Congressional and Senate Democrats bear a fair share of responsibility for the Middle East occupation by repeatedly voting to fund it. If I voted to send Democrats to Washington, I'd have to live with the guilt of knowing that they and their Dem colleagues routinely betray their constituents; that's why I don't do it any more.
Looking at that vote just demonstrates yet again why Sherrod Brown is just a placeholder for a good Republican candidate.
oxymoron: good Republican candidate
good replay of the nonsense coming from the republicans pretending that it borders on reality.
amazing that these chickenhawks can start a war but now fail to support the troops by voting against funding them and their leader, ha, what a joke, he has such disregard for the troops that he's going to veto the funding.
had enough. vote democratic. throw these neocon bums out.
Regarding the "pork" talking point (which Ms Rulon seems eager to repeat), I agree with the assessment of the New York Times:
To further disparage the bills, Mr. Bush also accuses the Democrats of larding them up with “pork.” That’s just as diversionary as Mr. Bush’s attempts to convince Americans that Congress is withholding money from the troops. The bills include roughly $20 billion in extra spending. About a quarter of it, nearly $5 billion, is for health care for veterans and active-duty members of the military and for expanding some military bases while closing others. Billions of dollars more are for other federal responsibilities that have been chronically neglected during the Bush years, including $1.3 billion to pay for post-Katrina levee repairs in Louisiana, $750 million for the state and federal health care partnership that insures poor children and roughly $500 million to help the poor pay for heat in the winter. And on it goes, money for homeland security, wildfire suppression, avian flu preparedness and other national issues.
Relatively little of the extra spending is targeted to lawmakers’ home districts — a precondition for labeling something pork. Mr. Bush invariably chooses to mock $25 million allotted for spinach growers in California. But that money is intended to mitigate growers’ losses from their voluntary recall of spinach during a bacterial contamination last September, which is the type of emergency that supplemental spending bills are supposed to address.
Ideally, all nonemergency government spending — which obviously includes the Iraq war at this point — would be included in the annual federal budget. But ever since he started the war in 2003, Mr. Bush has maneuvered to pay for it via separate emergency measures. That ploy created a false impression of urgency, which made lawmakers who questioned the spending seem irresponsible. The effect was to short-circuit real debate about the war. Now that Democrats are using the bill precisely to raise questions — and pose answers — Mr. Bush is desperate to derail it.
It's becoming obvious that Ms Rulon is about as "fair and balanced" as Fox News.
It is amazing to me how much Democrats hate our troops because they kill, hate the military because it conquers and fear patriotism because it encourages nationalism. These Dems are willing to risk our entire way of life for their own political agendas rather than defending it.
It is amazing to me how much Republicans love sending our troops to war under false pretenses, love policies that actually increase terrorism, and love claiming phony successes. These Republicans are willing to risk our entire way of life for their own political agendas rather than defending it.
Republicans, strong on terrorism? That's a laugh. Remind me again, what steps did Bush take when he got the memo "Bin Laden determined to strike in US"?
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