Profiles in courage?
By on Jan 26th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Profiles in courage?
A top conservative Capitol Hill staffer tells Politico that more than 70 senators would oppose Bush’s escalation if their vote matched their comments in private meetings. “The White House is trying to but they really don’t know how to handle this,” the staffer said.
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We’ll see who is wo/man enough to see who can talk the talk and then walk the walk.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:36 pm“if there votes matched there comments”. Man, what I would give for someone to vote and do what they say. Repugs and Dems are both very bad at this currently. Bush lied and lies. Pelosi burns American Somoa to help a corporate buddy. It goes on and on. Washington is so horrible these days. Both parties leaders need to be replaced for the horrible corruption and lies they tell the American people. Pelosi had her chance, but started lying and being obviously corrupt right our of the gate. So sad.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:38 pmTRAITORS!
…every Satan-loving (Bushite) one of ‘em…
January 26th, 2007 at 12:39 pmIf these guys had the courage of their convictions, they could save lives. They think they are saving their skins. But 2/3 of the people want out of Iraq.
A lot of those senators are going to lose their jobs because of the very strategy they’re using to try to save them.
Supporting the war in Iraq is opposing the vast majority of the voters. It’s amazing to me that ANYONE can still believe that getting us our of Iraq would be a bad move politically. Maybe these senators, in addition to having no moral scruples, are just to stupid to keep their jobs.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:44 pmI guess we’ll just have to see how this all plays out and then not forget just WHO was true to thier convictions. The American people are not going to take kindly to spineless cowards and sniveling public servants -not when it comes to lives lost and the decimation of the economy, for no good reason.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:52 pmTRAITORS!
…every Satan-loving (Bushite) one of ‘em…
Comment by big papa
Idiot.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:53 pmRoger, name one lie or act of corruption by Nancy Pelosi without repeating republican lies, smear, and exaggerations about her.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:58 pmAll Hail The Decider!
He’ll be the ruin o f the nation, but we must support him!
Everyone get in the bunker.
-GSD
January 26th, 2007 at 1:02 pmhttp://thinkprogress.org/escalation-house-senate/
Find out who’s a fence sitter, then write/call em and tell them to “shit or get off the pot”!
January 26th, 2007 at 1:03 pmReal courage for members of Congress means join the protest in DC on Saturday!
1 Million Needed For Protest In DC
26th of January 2007
by Jay Randal
One million American patriots are needed to converge on Washington, DC, tomorrow for the Anti Iraq War protest to END that heinous fiasco debacle quagmire.
The bigger the protest, then it gets more media/press coverage, so Americans must flock to the capital to say NO More War For Oil, End Iraq Fiasco Now, Surge Is An Escalation, Cheney Is A Liar, and Bush Must Resign.
The protest must remain peaceful, and NOT become a riot which would allow the Bush Regime to call protest a gathering of agitators and terrorists, so all involved must be civil in their actions and NOT incite violence.
The speakers at the event must galvanize the crowd to force the dire horrific occupation of Iraq to be ended, ASAP, so they must demand Congressional members to cut-off funding for the war and to bring troops home.
Everyone in the House and Senate who opposes Iraq War escalation must attend the protest, so NOT hide from their duty to the Constitution, NOR fail to hold President Bush and VP Cheney accountable for Iraq.
( Jay Randal, political activist and writer in Georgia, USA.)
PS: Contact your friends and travel to DC for the protest.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:08 pmHow many members of congress will be part of the anti-war demonstration on Saturday Jan. 27? Will there be any members of the Senate? Will there be any members of the House? They need to encourage and join with citizens who support their efforts in Congress.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:33 pmHmm… 70 out of a 100. What a remarkable coincidence, given that about 70% of Americans oppose the surge…
January 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pmI can see the 2008 ad campaigns for opposing candidates right now.
It consists of the incumbent’s Iraq voting record, highlighted. Blinking in neon lights, set to martial music, run every ten minutes on every station in the nation.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:48 pmRoger_roger, Pelosi didn’t burn America Samoa. Some back story. American Samoa’s minimum wage is set by a special commission under the Dept of Labor. The Marianas had no such oversight from the gov’t. The bill as offered 1) brought the Marianas under federal labor laws and 2) put it on a path to bring the minimum wage up to the federal level over an extended time. It didn’t change anything for American Samoa (because, y’know, they already _had_ federal control over wage there).
For Pelosi to have “burned American Samoa” (do you even know where American Samoa is?) she would have to have some remote control over the DoL’s actions. But now, due to pressure from idiots like you who don’t bother to look into what’s actually going on, they’ve pulled A.S. under the same provisions in the bill voted out by the house. So, really, you don’t have a single leg to stand on.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:49 pmImpeach the Escalator!!!
January 26th, 2007 at 1:50 pmtriangulating the republicans. how sweet it is!
January 26th, 2007 at 2:03 pm….more than 70 senators would oppose Bush’s escalation if their vote matched their comments in private meetings.
Or if they had the guts that matched their rhetoric. Perhaps the next time they visit Baghdad, they should get out of the safety of the Green Zone and go out to AnBar Province for a body retrival, where they can help fill and then load a bodybag or two onto a Chinook.
Maybe then they could suck up just enough courage to do their own jobs without regard to the party line.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:24 pmRoger-Roger,
January 26th, 2007 at 2:44 pmHow did Pelsoi help a “Corporate Buddy”,and what did she do for her”Corporate Buddy”?
I believe that she said when the bill comes back for a mark-up, American Somoa will be included in it. You need to turn of Fox once in a while, go outside and take a deep breath.
20wordsorless sez:
Actually, since Chimpy is a known member of Skull and Bones, whose initiation ceremonies involve the following:
…big papa’s statement is correct, and you are the idiot.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:52 pmPost 11 Jana Lane > Rep. Kucinich, Waters, Barbara Lee, Woolsey and a few others will be at the protest. No Senators thus far have said they will be at the protest on Saturday.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:05 pmi’d be a hell of a lot happier if i could see that fat f*** publicly disemboweled in times square….
January 26th, 2007 at 3:10 pmThey’re cowards. Corrupt cowards at that. Chief corrupt coward is the Israeli agent Hillary.
January 26th, 2007 at 6:41 pmRabbit
this morning on franken, lawrence o’donnell was talking about the resolutions in the senate… that warner did not want to combine his with the other, biden/levin/hagel, because then a large number of repugs would be voting against the preznit…
i think i have that close, at least…
here is a story linked from airamerica news…
January 26th, 2007 at 7:06 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/world/middleeast/24cong.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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What a bunch of poopy-pants these losers are. What ever happened to Mr. Smith goes to Washington?
January 26th, 2007 at 9:07 pmEVERYONE knows that Bush’s “last little push” isn’t changing the way Iraq will play out, so that if Republican really cared about winning, they should have spoken to Dick Cheney long ago about more troops.
Bush isn’t listening to Iraq’s prime minister, Maliki, not anyone, despite the fact that makes Maliki weak, Bush/Cheney push their own agenda.
The cold hard fact is that the troop surge is too little, too late, and McCain has to know this, qnd yet not care. Turning the war around is not going to happen, you can ask Maliki to play puppet to a US occupation and hope to lead an overall anti-US occupation country of Iraq citizens without being seen as a bitterly hated US puppet prime minister. I can only sense that the UN would like nothing better than for Iran to hurry and get a nuclear weapon, Russia must want it too. The US has become a nightmare over oil resource control. Time for the Mideast to put an end to the never ending US Western oil contractor bloodshead.
January 27th, 2007 at 12:00 pm