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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Meanwhile, in the REALLY important vote today
Posted by Jill | 9:12 PM
20 wussy-ass Democrats voted with Republicans to continue grinding American soldiers into empty husks, in a vote that actually was important:

The US Senate on Thursday crushed a latest, and largely symbolic attempt by anti-war Democrats to cut off funding for most Iraqi combat operations by next June.

Only 28 Senators, all Democrats, including presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama backed the measure, which fell 32 votes short of the 60 vote supermajority it needed to pass.

The bill, co-sponsored by Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and Senator Russ Feingold, would have allowed funding only for a strictly limited US mission, based on training Iraqi forces and targeted counter-terrorism operations.

Before the vote, Reid bemoaned the fact that Democratic attempts to force Bush's hand on the war had been rebuffed again and again.

"There is nothing the Democratic majority can do to force our Republican colleagues to vote the responsible way," he said.

But 20 Democrats also voted against the Reid/Feingold bill, reflecting the fact that many Senators are wary of being seen to cut off vital funding for US troops on a foreign battlefield.


And God forbid they should put out the effort required to explain how voting to end this God-awful war IS supporting the troops. That might actually take some work and a bully pulpit. It's just so much easier to just give in to a party of thugs and their sociopathic leader and continue to sacrifice American young men and women for nothing.

It's disgusting, repulsive, and reprehensible. I'd say may they all rot in hell if I believed in a hell other than the one that these cowards and the Republicans whose boots they're licking are creating right here on earth.

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