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- hawkeye17, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This is Exhibit A of one truth: Republicans who speak of 'supporting our troops' are hypocrites and liars. It's a national disgrace what the Republican Party/Bush Administration are doing to our Armed Forces. Our men and women in uniform deserve better.
- RavagesOfTime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, the Republicans that voted this down just gave the Dems 6 months worth of negative campaign commercials. Go on the offensive, already.
- EntropyMan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Can anyone explain to me why the friggin' Democrats don't just say, "You want to filibuster more time off for the troops? Go ahead! We'll go play poker for a week or two. And when the public finally sees what ***** the Republicans are to the troops they claim to support, you will have no leg to stand on. Get talking!"
Bonus points if you can explain it without resorting to something trite, like "Dems are stupid/weak/clueless."
As it stands, it keeps looking like the Dems don't have the votes, but they had plenty of votes to pass the amendment, just not the cloture vote to end debate. And if Bush was going to veto anyway, that's his choice.
No wonder they're at 11%. - Dem02020, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0I won't resort to "stupid/weak/clueless", but I'll say that I think Senate Democrats are behaving as though they were a little intimidated on the issue of the Defense Appropriation; they seem to be under the impression that they're at the edge of a dangerous precipice regarding the Defense Appropriation, as though one bad move and the National Security of the American People, and their Armed Forces, will all come undone and collapse, if the Defense Appropriation isn't passed by October 1 or soon thereafter.
As amazing as it may sound, I think that Senate Democrats (but to a much lesser extent House Democrats), they live in a "bubble" of sorts. It's only partially a "media bubble" they live in; it's much more a "social bubble" and even a "professional bubble" they live in.
Living and working as they do, in Washington D.C. and on the Hill, they're surrounded (literally) by the Pentagon and the CIA and the Joint Chiefs and the Director of National Intelligence and all the other intelligence agencies, and K Street and all of the Defense Contracting interests they represent, and of course the Bush administration surrounds Congress, and the Senate, and Senate Democrats.
That's the "bubble" I think they live and work in; and it has them more than just intimidated about holding back the Defense Appropriation, it maybe has them scared about it.
Too bad.
Because if they could just get outside that "bubble" and listen to the American People for whom this Federal Government serves, and for whom the U.S. Armed Forces fight, then they (Senate Democrats) might know how overwhelmingly those American People would say to them:
"Don't pass the danged thing! Let those death-loving Senate Republicans refuse cloture on Mr. Webb's Amendment; let them stall the Defense Appropriations that way; let the danged thing sit DEAD IN THE WATER!"
Whenever in the past, our Congress and the administration of our Federal Government have been at an impasse regarding spending measures; and that impasse has resulted in any partial shutdown of Government services, and a resorting to purely emergency supplemental spending, the American People have always had an opinion on who is right and who is wrong in the impasse.
And they will this time too, if Senate Democrats can just muster the nerve, and see outside their "bubble", and stop being so intimidated by the power and authority that surrounds them in Washington D.C.
A power and authority Constituted to serve us, We the American People.
All good soldiers, when going into battle, are inspired and given courage, by the sight of the Guide who marches before them, first into battle...
...they are as much inspired and encouraged by the Standard that Guide carries, and the sight of it's colors, and all that it signifies, as by anything else...
...and should their Guide into battle fall, and the Standard fall too, and touch the ground...
...then all are made more fierce, and fight harder, as another takes the standard up, and they march on under that Guide.
Let Mr. Webb be our Guide in this matter (I hear that he has blood kin in Iraq); let Mr. Webb's amendment be our Standard in this matter; let it not fall.
Let Senate Republicans stop the Defense Authorization DEAD IN THE WATER if they like, over the Webb Amendment.
Millions upon millions of the American People would love it, and would lend their voices and all support, if Senate Democrats would just do this for them...
Millions upon millions of the American People, well outside that "bubble".
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