U.S. Senate votes: stay the course.
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They are more do-nothing than we knew.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:48 pmCraig & Crapo voted no — I’m so surprised. Not.
Ok, I expected Lieberman, and Landreau to vote for it, but what is up with Mark Dayton of Ohio?
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:49 pmAgainst it, sorry.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:50 pmillinois – YES – thankfully…
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:54 pmregarding one of the democratic traitors, senator dayton of minnesota: he is a piece of filth and has recently given HIMSELF a failing mark for his performance in the senate. fortunately, he is retiring.
he is a feces stain on the democrats of minnesota, and shall not be missed.
peace.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:58 pmBoth my senators voted YEA!
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:58 pmAt a graduation for my nephew recently, future plans were announced for several of the graduates and when “Marine Corps.” was mentioned; polite clapping, but I could not help hearing several around me whisper things like,”what’s he thinking?” , “oh boy,does he know what he’s doing?” and the like.
As long as it’s someone elses kids, right? 60 sleepwalkers.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:59 pmGo Ned Go
Surprise sSurprise
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:59 pmLieberman (D-CT) voted to stay the course, falling in line with his republican cohorts, anyone that agrees with bush by sticking to their guns to prove a point needs to go…thickheadensess and ignorance are not qualities to vote on!
So when General casey call for a draw down of troops by the end of the year they are against that? I thought they listen to the Generals!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:01 pmIsakson and Chambliss both voted YEA. No surprise. It’ll feel great to vote NO on them in November…
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:02 pm6 Democrat Senators betrayed the United States today: Dayton, Landrieu, Lieberman, Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, and Pryer! Every progressive in the US must demand their resignations, because they are actually Republicans who masquerade as Democrats!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:04 pmWhat a coinky dink. Defense contractors, and the Oil Industry also voted to “stay the course” and make a bundle.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:06 pmquestion
does anyone know if the 310 americans killed in afghanistan is in the 2508 dead? just wondering…
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:09 pmPost 10 > they both voted Nay to kill the admendment! Yea was to redeploy the troops out of Iraq! Georgia’s Repub Senators have always been traitors!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:11 pmeven NIXON had a time tanble to exit viet nam
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:15 pmThis is so unimportant compared to the Snowe Net Neutrality vote that is happening today in the Senate. Please call your neutered senator NOW to ask them to vote FOR the bill.
Click here for their numbers:
http://tinyurl.com/r8dzf
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:20 pmjames risser,
No, the 2,511 killed in Iraq does not include the 310 Americans killed in Afghanistan.
Check the Iraq Coalition Casualties web site.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
From there, you can select Iraq or Afghanistan
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:21 pmSen. Jay Rockefeller has NOT voted on anything in the Senate for a couple months > he is reputed to be sick, so if he is unable due to illness to press a button NAY or YEA, then he must resign from the Senate so someone else can replace him!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:24 pmWell, that’s only one angry missive to Sen Feinstein this week (The flag burning amendment). She did right by me this time.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:25 pmI would really like to know why Dems aren’t as aggressive against Ben Nelson as they are Lieberman.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:26 pmBoth my senators voted for more war and between the 2 of them thay can’t spell C-A-T.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:27 pmPost 20 I have sent several faxes to Sen. Reid about Sen. Ben Nelson, of Nebraska, betraying the Democrat party repeatedly! Ben is NOT a Democrat > he is a Trojan Horse Republican who masquerades in Dem clothing!
Sen. Bill Nelson, of Florida, is afraid the Cubans in his state will vote for Katherine Harris, the wicked witch to replace him, so he has become a paranoid idiot!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:34 pmSen Mark Dayton used to be a good and loyal Democrat, but since he is a single guy I think the GOP has some dirt on him! He could be Gay and afraid the Repubs might out him?!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:36 pm10. Isakson and Chambliss both voted YEA.
You mean they voted no – not to set a timetable.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:44 pmSen. Joe Lieberman has always been a GOP ass kisser > he is the most worthless Senator in the Congress and a warmongering fool for Bush!
Sen. Mary Landrieu is a very pathetic wussy Democrat, who is afraid to vote against Dubya’s war! She thinks Bush will cut off all funds to Louisiana, and New Orleans, if she stands up to him on anything!
Sen. Pryer I do not know anything about, but he seems to votes like a Dino!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:45 pmPryer votes like a Dino I should have said in post 25!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:48 pmthey don’t dare vote anything but stay the course.
I have a friend who has voted for Bush twice. A ‘Republican’ through and through, he doesn’t really know any better. He is being duped, but also has the good sense not to vote for the dumb democrats.
He also is emphatic when he says that anybody that is of age to serve in the armed forces had better not join at this time.
He’s not that dumb.
The US Senate consists of knaves and fools, not men.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:50 pmThe only “course” here is to run out the clock and hand the problem to a Democrat.
Feh.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:51 pm.
“Senator John S. McCain, Republican of Arizona and a survivor of more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, said early in the debate that to embrace the stand of Mr. Kerry — a fellow Vietnam War veteran whom Mr. McCain has called a friend — would be to take “a significant step on the road to disaster.”
McCain is correct.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:52 pmLooks like NSA wiretapping has gotten the goods on quite a few Dems and a couple Repugnants.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:52 pmPost 30 > most likely the NSA has dredged up dirt on Sen. Dayton > he has been castrated now!
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:55 pmExplain why you believe he is correct. Because just stating it doesn’t make it so.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:56 pmAren’t we doing doughnuts at the dead end of the Road to Disaster right now Exley?
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:57 pmWell, I count 6 dems that should be targeted for removal over the next couple of years. If they want to vote with republicans, let them run as rebulbicans.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:59 pmSpudge Boy, Because leaving Iraq now before the new, democratically elected Iraqi government has time to establish its authority and before the new Iraqi military is ready to perform all of the its necessary functions would allow the coalition of Baathists and Saddam’s Al Qaeda allies who were in Iraq prior to 2003 to take over the country and establish a terrorist state in Iraq. The reason we went to war in Iraq was because it was a state-sponsor of terrorism. To leave now and allow it to once again become a terrorist state would mean everything our troops have fought for since march 2003 will have been for naught.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:02 pm[...] The US Senate just voted to “stay the course” in Iraq. The vote was 60-36 (Rockafeller of NY didn’t vote). Not sure if this is good or bad. The thing the vote does indicate is that there seems to be a lot more support for dragging this fight out than for finding some way to get out. What does anyone else think? [HT ThinkProgress] [link] [...]
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:09 pmI wonder when the last time Senator Kerry had a bill pass that wasn’t of a ceremonial nature. Oh wait I know, NEVER. You guys didn’t post the vote on immediate withdrawal of troops, it was 86-13. Hard to believe that many Senators voting OUTSIDE of the mainstream….LOL.
Proud supporter of Kerry/Gore or Clinton/Kerry 2008!
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm#17 thanks for the info…
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:31 pm#18…I think what the Senate did is just as bad as you do, however, before you start chastising senators who have had major back surgery, better go and look back at the Family and Medical Leave Act before you start telling people they no longer should have a job.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:40 pm“Senator John S. McCain, Republican of Arizona and a survivor of more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, said early in the debate that to embrace the stand of Mr. Kerry — a fellow Vietnam War veteran whom Mr. McCain has called a friend — would be to take “a significant step on the road to disaster.â€
McCain is correct.
Comment by Exley — June 22, 2006 @ 1:52 pm
and things are just going swimmingly there:
Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America’s War? As Many As 250,000
——————————————————————————–
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War 2508
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Cost of America’s War in Iraq
$290,147,260,611
Iraq: US may be asked to leave
By Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor
THE level of violence in some areas of Iraq is worsening dramatically and US forces may soon be asked to leave by the Iraqi Government. Continue
Another 7 people killed as U.S. occupation continues: Two people were killed and six wounded when a car bomb exploded in a crowded market in the Shi’ite district of Sadr city in eastern Baghdad, police said.
US soldiers accused of killing 15 Iraqi farmers: Iraqi police have accused the US military of killing 15 farm workers during a raid near Baquba, north of Baghdad.
US troops get murder charges in killing civilian: The incident took place in the town of Hamdania and is a separate case from the November 19 killing of 24 civilians in Haditha in which other Marines are suspected.
Dozens of Iraqi factory workers abducted: police: Five busloads of employees of the state-owned Great Victory factory at Taji were commandeered by dozens of gunmen in at least five cars, the officials said. One source put the number of those kidnapped at least 100 and possibly many more.
21,000 Troops Notified for Iraq Occupation Deployment : The Pentagon has notified about 21,000 Army soldiers and Marines that they are scheduled to be sent to Iraq late this year
Combat stress cases on pace to hit 20,000: The Department of Veterans Affairs is on a pace to see nearly 20,000 new cases of post-combat stress this year among service members who’ve served in Iraq or Afghanistan, more than six times the number of cases that officials had expected.
and in Aghanistan:
40 killed as occupation rages in Afghanistan: There will likely be more significant fighting in southern Afghanistan in the coming months, the US-led coalition said Wednesday as 40 people, mostly Taliban, were killed in fresh violence.
Six killed, 10 trucks burned in Afghan bomb blast : A bomb fixed to a tanker supplying fuel to US occupation forces in Afghanistan exploded as the vehicle crossed over from Pakistan, killing six people and destroying 10 trucks, police said today.
3 Afghan police killed ‘by mistake’ : Three Afghan policemen have been killed after US-led coalition troops shot at their vehicle by mistake in eastern Kunar province, the US military says.
Afghan Press Told Not To Criticise Occupation Troops: A 24-point guideline paper, possibly from the intelligence department, has been issued to local and foreign media organisation asking them to abide by the rules mentioned in paper.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:54 pmAnd under what administration did FMLA originate?
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:02 pmOnce the voting started, the libs employed their very own cut and run strategy.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:04 pmvotes were re-deployed
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:08 pmIt appears a smaller version of the libs cut & run policy has taken place on this very thread.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:18 pmi just received an email from john kerry – the content confused me, so i checked back here and am still confused… hope someone can clear it up!
the first link here, and kerry’s email, are about “the Kerry-Feingold proposal to redeploy American combat troops out of Iraq by July 1, 2007. Thirteen Senators voted for it.”
however, that first link states “60-39″ – it links to a Guardian story that kerry refers to…
still with me?
the second link, “voted”, goes to senate roll call page, and states “(Levin Amdt. No. 4320 )… To state the sense of Congress on United States policy on Iraq.”… that vote was YEAS 39, NAYS 60…
from kerry’s letter, about the Kerry-Feingold proposal:
We ask you to join us now in honoring the strength and leadership of the Senators who stood with you:
Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), co-sponsor
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Sen. James Jeffords (I-VT)
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), co-sponsor
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Please call, write, or email these Senators and acknowledge their leadership on Iraq.
huh?
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:23 pm#20 – Nelson of Nebraska is a conservative in a conservative state… but he doesn’t attack other democrats and doesn’t lead off the Republicans arguments for them.
Lieberman of Ct is a conservative in a liberal state… and he attacks other democrats regularly. He had the opening 15 minutes in the recent Iraq war debate… for the republican side! Those 15 minutes were republican minutes.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:31 pmkaty is experiencing the cut and run/re-deployment of the blog troops
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:48 pm# 45
Katy,
There were two resolutions that were voted down today. The Kerry-Feingold proposal, which called for all American troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by July 2007, was defeated 86-13.
A second “sense of the Senate” resolution, which was more broadly phrased and did not provide a date certain from withdrawal, (”It declared that it was “the sense of the Senate” that redeployment of United States troops from Iraq begin by the end of this year”) was defeated 60-39.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:50 pmMakes you wonder how many identities are really just one person – when they can all leave at once. Either that or they have not told katy the code.
June 22nd, 2006 at 3:52 pmGo to www dot senate dot gov bypassing spam filter…what’s up? WRITE THEM AND LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL.
On upper right, click ‘go’ to find senators, then select your state from the pull-down. Most have online contact capability.
DO IT NOW. It’ll make you feel better.
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:10 pmthe rest of kerry’s message need posted:
Let me be absolutely clear. Russ Feingold and I would have forced this vote even if the outcome were going to be 98 to 2. Ending the Bush administration’s disastrous approach to this war isn’t about counting votes. It isn’t about legislative strategy or electoral calculation. It’s about applying constant pressure to change a broken course.
It’s about utterly rejecting the desperate tactics of cowardly political operatives like Karl Rove who, as John Murtha pointed out, have no qualms about telling our soldiers to “stay the course” from the comfort of their air-conditioned offices at the White House.
It’s about doing what’s right.
Karl Rove may worry about losing votes. It’s our job to worry about young Americans losing their lives. It’s our job to provide a new vision that offers real security for America while giving the Iraqis their best chance for a stable Iraq.
I will keep doing what’s right on Iraq, and I won’t stop until our troops are home and the future of Iraq is in the hands of the Iraqi people.
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:27 pmVOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!
Come November, it is incumbent on every real progressive to help show his or her congressperson who voted down this bill, the door.
Democrat, Republican, Independent. Show them the door.
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:28 pmAnd anyone who voted for the war, and has not yet recanted, show them the door too.
In fact, put em in a cab.
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:30 pmthis just in from captain obvious:
the titanic ’stayed the course’ too!
June 22nd, 2006 at 5:25 pmEx, in the 1980s Pres. Reagan funded the Contras to fight the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and the right wing death-squads in El Salvador. That makes the United States a state sponsor of terrorism.
June 22nd, 2006 at 6:19 pmStay the course. To the hell and beyond.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:55 am#55
You mean President Reagan funded the freedom-fighters in Nicaragua combatting the Communist regime of the Sandinistas (and won..Nicaragua is today a democracy) and helped get Jose Napoleon Duarte elected president of El Salvador who dismantled the rogue death squads, while simultaneously ending the communist insurgency. (and wond..Today El Salvador is a democracy)…
So, to answer yoru question: “No, of course not. Don’t be silly.”
June 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 pm