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Democrats Roll Over on War Funding....Again

news.yahoo.com — If they keep this up Bush is going to need to start bringing a box of treats when he visits the hill.

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  • oceanrain, on 10/10/2007, -4/+58HA HA HA HA.... Democrats are for change...HA HA HA

    Two sides of the same coin. What a charade.
  • WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -6/+41If you're not voting for Paul, Gravel or Kucinich next presidential election, then you have nothing to complain about, and you're a part of the problem...
  • bumb1ebee, on 10/10/2007, -1/+305 people in the Senate did not vote:

    Biden (D-DE)
    Clinton (D-NY)
    Dodd (D-CT)
    Obama (D-IL)
    McCain (R-AZ)

    See a pattern here? If you think any of these people have the balls to make any changes in this country, you are wrong.
  • Beeryan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25Can you please describe "a VICTORY in Iraq"?
  • theNazz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+28Those ***** can kiss the next elections goodbye.
  • Spankenstein, on 10/10/2007, -3/+25I wish people would get it through their heads that the Democrats are not "rolling over"--they're complicit.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20Bush might as well go all the way and appoint his horse a senator.
  • pleiadianagenda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16How can anyone be surprised in the least? BOTH PARTIES ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE SAME PRIVATE INTERESTS. Not all of them, but enough to have damaged the country. (most of them, sadly)

    The solution is to see past the left/right paradigm and elect and support HONEST PEOPLE WITH INTEGRITY AND A CONSCIOUS. Not sold out puppets, who by the way, care nothing about you.
  • billbacon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15HAHAHA.... AHAHAHAAAA... ahhh... oh... damn this sucks.
  • bleuwolfe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Treats? He just looks like he might say boo and they salute. Is there no one who will stand up for America? Oh, yeah, We The People. So let's do it and stop bitching about corrupt republicans and spineless democrats, if we don't America is doomed.
  • Jareth86, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I can't believe I bought their "end the war" rhetoric and voted democrat. I am so ***** ashamed.
  • g00dETH3R, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Good cop bad cop routine.
    Can’t believe the amount of morons running around barracking for their team (Democrat, republican) this isn’t sport, this is your children’s future. Wake up, get educated about what interests control your government and how your interests come last.
  • Draxius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10That is one of the most misleading articles I have ever read. They keep saying the republicans won't allow this to happen. Uhhhh, the republicans need the democrats to get a funding bill to the president. If the dems dont want this war, they don't have to fund this. If it is to be funded, a bill must be passed. Don't let this propaganda fool you. They are all guilty. Hell, at least the reps are honest about what they want, even though it is retarded.
  • Chibioz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10The Democrats frontrunners are pandering to the anti-war crowd, but they don't really mean to withdraw troops. Only one candidate has shown that he can be trusted by voting against this ***** war in the first place, voting against the patriot act, against obnoxious war spending and big government waste. There's nothing crazy about following our own constitution and getting this fat government down to size. Ron Paul's support is growing more everyday, his supporters are enthusiastic to fight for freedom!
  • ruyen, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12We won the fight long ago when we toppled Saddam and Bush landed on the 'Mission Accomplished' carrier. Since then we've been occupying a country, we started off by not policing it when the looting and lawlessness started, and are now trying to police it after a civil war started.

    PS: Pelosi and the dems who keep funding the occupation, and corrupt reconstruction and security there sicken me and are as bad as Bush.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Did you really expect something different from them? Do you really think they represent you? They are bought and paid for by special interests...as are the republicans. War is BIG money, as you can see by the amount currently spent as well as the amount earmarked for future spending. Politicians will look at the camera and say whatever it takes to keep them in power. If you believe these bastards actually give a ***** about you and your family, you really need to wake the ***** up.

    The US government is completely out of control. Blaming the _other_ party is what is killing us as the average citizen. Neither party has our best interests in mind. The parties are set up to keep us divided amongst ourselves.

    Do a 15 minute search on the principle of "divide and conquer" and you should quickly realize that we are being played like pawns in a chess game. Squabbling over the little things is losing the chess match. I'll trade a pawn for a bishop, knight or rook in a heartbeat. Don't you think the PTB feel the same way? They see us as pawns and will continue to sacrifice us as needed to win the match.

    300,000,000 people continue to allow less than 1000 to dictate our lives...un-*****-believable.
  • eatbeefjerky, on 10/10/2007, -8/+16Did anyone else notice how only NINETY FIVE of the FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE House members were around to vote on this issue? What the ***** is up with that?

    It angers me to the core, so it does. Kucinich in 2008.
  • snotrokit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8wow. good thing we have all those newly elected dems now. ooooh feel the tremors of change. ooooooooh.

    They are all ***** working for the same team.
  • FalconSeven, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Third Party, anyone? I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting damn tired of the same people pretending to be in two parties running our government. Show me some competence, debate and ethics. ***** lobbyists, do whats best for everyone not whats best for your individual pockets or campaigns.
  • ralph12c41, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10What a bunch of losers...They are getting tough now going after a radio talk show host
  • darkciti2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Yep. I'm going to vote for a DIFFERENT Democrat because these guys have let us down so much. It's rarely happened, but that's my approach. If there isn't one in my district, I'm going to run. ***** it.

    Those corrupt ***** are letting us down.
  • WolverineBlue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Iraq already makes Burma look like a picnic.
  • Olivaw, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10No point in nickel and diming the troops. Unless you can figure out a way to bring them home, at least keep them funded and give them the tools to protect themselves. What the dems need to do is grow some nads and prosecute Bush and Cheney for the underhanded tactics they used to get this war started in the first place.
    Cutting funding is what turned Vietnam into the quagmire that it was. It didn't get our troops home then, and it won't now either.
  • WolverineBlue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6All too busy pandering for donations.
  • Draxius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Awesome post, thanks for noticing that and pointing it out.
  • MercedRocks, on 10/10/2007, -6/+12I love the idiot Democrats, they're just as stupid as the Republicans.
  • Mykal73, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5How about we impeach the government?
  • PeppermintPig, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6There's no military solution here, and no political solution short of leaving Iraq, because the Iraqi people must be able to defend themselves when the US is gone. I've said this a few times: The US is not accountable to Iraqi individuals, it can't be, due to the nature of the beast, and the fact that it has strongly influenced the structure of the Iraqi government. It does not have the infrastructure to provide Iraqi citizens with justice when the aggressors might happen to be foreign (US included): The recent events with Blackwater reinforce this point of no accountability.

    You have delusional ideals over the outcome of this war.
  • lukifer, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8Head, meet desk.
  • MangalaIII, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Yea, but de-funding the war is the only thing Democrats CAN do!

    pussies...
  • jj101, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Problem is the soldiers are there now. To leave the soldiers there underfunded would be a disgrace. To keep funding the war implies continued support and continues what many there see as the coalition occupation of the country. To pull out asap leaves Iraq in state many, many times worse for the average Iraqi than under Saddam, with no power. water, hospitals, police, schools, transport networks - virtually no infrastructure - not to mention a bloody and barbaric civil war.

    Thats gotta be a tough decision whichever way you are looking at it from.

  • logicalnoise, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7they have freedom, and politically as much stability as we do. They just have more citizens willing to fight for their beliefs(as violent as they are).
  • forgiste, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Clinton is yesterday. Focus on the present. We didn't lose record billions or lives to the Clinton administration. We have a new problem NOW. Head out of ass.
  • chawjubs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6this ***** is a joke i swear to god. some sick ***** joke.
  • WolverineBlue, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6With abysmal approval ratings for BOTH the REPUBLICAN president and the DEMOCRATIC congress, '08 might actually be taken by an independent party.
  • WhiteRaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Fadeout, you're aren't thinking straight. Congress *passed* the bill. If they had chosen to simply not pass the bill, Bush couldn't do anything about it.
  • g00dETH3R, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Vietnam was a quagmire by design.
    On the eve of his election in 1968, Richard Nixon secretly conspired with the South Vietnamese government to wreck all-party Vietnam peace talks as part of a deliberate effort to prolong a conflict (to improve his presidential chances) in which more than 20,000 Americans were still to die, along with tens of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodians.
    Check it out if you don't believe me.
  • roadhog481, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Have you guys ever wondered what it is that the anti-war dems see when they get to the "in-the-know" stage. Every single one has flip-flopped on the issue. Makes me wonder what there seeing that us civilians are not allowed to see.
  • Thadster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Does anyone here actually believe either party is really different from each other? Cmon...
  • pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4because everything is so peachy over there right now.
  • endora123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4They are simply part of the same broken-down machine as the repubs. It's the same game it always was. Out on their asses, ALL OF THEM! Okay, maybe not Kucinich or Gravel or a few others. But the rest are pretty much traitors. God help the troops - this Congress does NOT have their backs as promised.
  • lukifer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Our presence is *not* stabilizing the Middle East. If the invasion had been handled properly, I would still have disagreed with it, but would have applauded the success and the nobility of the mission. Instead, it was poorly planned (at best), and both Iraqi oil and lucrative government contracts have been handed over to Halliburton, Blackwater, etc., who have done an excellent job... of robbing the public coffers blind.

    No, (most of) the Dems want the occupation over because we simply aren't helping, just inciting more hatred and violence (playing right into Osama's hands), and paying for it with the blood and the money of our children. It's posi-*****-tively insane.
  • OnlyShawn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5....vote libertarian.

    well...actually...it doesn't matter who you vote for, so you're screwed. The faster this sucks really bad, the faster things will be changed.
  • flashingcurser, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Don't be ashamed. Learn from it. They both have rhetoric, republicans are suposed to control their spending....
  • Hananda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The left-right spectrum doesn't work. Both parties can be considered left of center fiscally and right of center socially. At the least, one needs three axes to describe ones political beliefs.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Both sides are bought and paid for. They talk a good game, but they act exactly the same. The only party that matters anymore is the Corporate party.
  • WiseWeasel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Then we're screwed for another four years of this BS!
  • flashingcurser, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4What happens if none of them are on the ballot?
  • BohicaTwentyTwo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3And Nixon did pull the troops out of Vietnam. So that is your point?
  • facewarts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Nancy is on her knees cleaning toilets in the White House versus cleaning house in the House of Representatives !

    LMFAO !

    You dems are gutless wimps and habitual liars !
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