Senate approves Iraq funding bill.
Following the House of Representatives, the Senate has passed the $100 billion Iraq war spending bill 80-14.
UPDATE: Roll call is HERE. Voting no:
Boxer (D-CA)
Burr (R-NC)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coburn (R-OK)
Dodd (D-CT)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Obama (D-IL)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
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I can’t believe Durbin caved!!
May 24th, 2007 at 8:48 pmbad news / good news:
May 24th, 2007 at 8:48 pmMinnesota’s Klobuchar votes to continue funding the massacre, but she looked very cute in her pants suit.
80 - 14? Nice Democrat solidarity. Looks like that supposed mandate that anti-war crowd kept talking about was pretty much vapor.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:49 pmCold water works best for removing blood.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:53 pmI guess between war and no war, the dems are keeping the faith. They’re as determined and dumb as bush. But bush says, “the next months are critical…………………..
May 24th, 2007 at 8:54 pmThis is what we got for the votes in November 2006? It is shameful and we should drive the fakes out!
May 24th, 2007 at 8:54 pm“I can’t believe Durbin caved!!” Comment by FormerDurbinLover
Don’t be naive - Dick Durbin LOVES Dick Durbin…..You might want to check out the Democratic Socialists of America…..Now those folks KNOW what a true Lefty looks like!!
Tooodles……..
May 24th, 2007 at 8:54 pmAs much as the crass Dems believe this is Bush’s war, by not stopping it it is their war and they just officially endorsed and enabled failure.
HUGE miscalculation on these military complex enabling Dems. They grieviously misunderstood they are complicit in the crime of our generation and no amount of drivel and rationalization can erase that cold hard fact.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:56 pmgo visit russ feingold’s site…
http://ga1.org/ campaign/ iraq0407?source=web_iraq0507
or here…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
May 24th, 2007 at 8:58 pmBottom line is that if every Republic senator up for election in ‘08 is replaced, we’ll still be hard put to end this cake-walk. Makes one wonder.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:58 pmWTF?
How is this honoring the will of the voters?
And then they’ll be surprised when we have to storm the Bastille to make a change…
May 24th, 2007 at 8:59 pmAgreed, many Dems voted for in 2002 and now they just funded it. So they are coequal owners. They can’t pretend this is Bush’s war any longer.
Many incumbents of both parties will be replaced in 08.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:00 pmA shameful act of cowardice by the Democratic leadership.
We don’t want a compromise, Harry! We want you to investigate, impeach and imprison these sons of bitches and to bring our troops home now! $hit or get off the pot, Harry!
May 24th, 2007 at 9:01 pmI am voting for the Sparrow Party in ‘08
May 24th, 2007 at 9:02 pmWhen in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
It is time to dissolve congress, the executive and the judiciary and form a new constitution.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:04 pmsooo… who feels like joining the green party?
May 24th, 2007 at 9:05 pmOff topic but interesting. I heard someone say that you’ll get kicked off redstate.com if you put in liberal comments. I had to try it out. Sure enough. It’s true!! I put in two very liberal points. I didn’t swear and didn’t malign Repugs. Just said that the Iraq was was a waste of money and Iraq was not a threat to the US.
I was booted in a matter of minutes. To show that it was no fluke I did it again. Same thing although it took a little longer. One poster even bragged that I would get kicked off. So much for free speech or open debates.
No wonder the trolls come here. This is the only place that actually allows discourse on current events.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:08 pmThe real reason that Bush wants to keep his illegal criminal imperial occupations going in Afghanistan and Iraq thrugh the end of his term in January 2009: He knows that when alll the troops are finally withdrawn and return home, that they will be extremely pissed off about being kept over there for years and years in a fruitless and stupid occupation. And that they will say so in no uncertain terms. They will say, “Mr. Bush, why did you say that keeping the occupations going was “supporting the troops?” Mr. Bush, were you stupid or insane or both?”
May 24th, 2007 at 9:10 pmI forgot to add. I think I’m done voting Democratic. The two party system has shown itself to be ineffective. Like one post said, I want this current party investigated for all of the crap that they have pulled. So far, the dems have barely talked tough let alone acted on anything.
Tell the Dems we won’t take it any more. IMHO, A vote for a right-leaning Dem like Hillary is a wasted vote.
GO GREEN IN 2008!!
May 24th, 2007 at 9:11 pmAll gave some, some gave all.
How to justify giving all for the flypaper that is the Iraq war…wake up, America.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:12 pmthey will pass more -
May 24th, 2007 at 9:13 pmDoes anyone have a link to the final voting record for this bill?
May 24th, 2007 at 9:17 pmNice of Obama and Clinton to wait till it was a done deal to vote no. At least Dodd had the courage to cast his no vote early.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:18 pmNow it is the ruling class that owns this war …… whether your a whig or tory or dem or repub. I actually gave money to some of these jokes, boy do I feel taken.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:19 pmThe result of voting dem is to put a new rubber stamp in congress with some different names ………. so why not Green Party?
It’s not up yet, but will be here:
http://www.senate.gov/ legislative/ LIS/ roll_call_lists/ roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00181>
Everyone, please check to see how your senators voted. Be sure to call and let them know how you feel about their votes!
May 24th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
See you in the streets of Denver, chumps.
The whole world’s wretching. The whole world’s wretching.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:24 pm23:
May 17, 2007: This bill passed in the Senate by Voice Vote. A record of each representative’s position was not kept.
http://www.govtrack.us/ congress/ bill.xpd?bill=h110-2206
The frickin’ Senators didn’t want to go on record!!!!!
May 24th, 2007 at 9:25 pmI live in the San Francisco Bay Area and at least my assemblyman (Pete Stark) and his neighbors voted the right way.
The bottom line is that a bunch of Democrats just gave Bush ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS to continue his war in Iraq. I want nothing to do with these people.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:27 pm25,
So those cowardly little shits didn’t even have the decency to go on the public record! It just gets more nauseating by the second.
I can’t wait to call my senators tomorrow morning and ask them how they voted.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:29 pmCall your senator ………. are you kidding? Mine are R and if you dont write them and tell them what they want to hear they ignore you ….. why would they care? Now the D senators they are way different as you can tell by them using different rubber stamps ….. remember how much fun it was when they had the classroom activity of sending in rubber stamps? what a howl!
May 24th, 2007 at 9:30 pm#23 - War4Sale,
May 24th, 2007 at 9:32 pmSo, I can check the commodities market in China with a (max) 15 minute lag, but a Senate vote report is delayed by over an hour. What am I missing?
Grevious miscalculation on the side of all fools who just enabled failure. They grossly misjudged the intelligence and patience of the American people who know the Iraq Terror lie is a house of cards.
2% of bodies in Iraq are foreign fighters. We protect the Sunni from Annihilation from the Shia majority and the Sunni kill us. We prop up and empower the burgeoning Shia theocracy and their militia kill us. All on 2 BILLION a week on borrowed money with no military solution. Calling Iraqi’s terrorists who do not want to be occupied is a bold face LIE!
Now how is that worthy of support?
May 24th, 2007 at 9:34 pmWell, Both my Representative and my Senator voted against this heap of crap…
The Other Senator for my state (one who keeps going on record against the war…) voted for it.
Z.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:34 pmHolding the power is more important than people dying. This was true with Romans, Feudal Lords, French, Nazis, Soviets and so called Democracy. This is true now. It has always been the truth.
Governments dont care about people.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:36 pmCheck Here For your Senators voting record…
Yes, they did go on record.
Z.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:36 pmSo what happened to the Democratic landslide of 2006. Is this what we voted for? Makes a person sick. Where’s Al Gore when you need him. Maybe 9/11 would have never happened.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:37 pmI actually watched my Democratic senator Claire McCaskill vote for that piece of sh*t supplemental. I am so pis*ed right now. First thing I did was call her DC office…voicemail was full. So, I left a message with her St. Louis office saying how disappointed I was that she voted to continue funding the disaster in Iraq. I worked hard to get her elected in November mostly because she was against the war. So much for that lie.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:39 pmI hope the GHOSTS of every soldier who dies and will die, will HAUNT all those who voted yes for this.
Sad day in America!
May 24th, 2007 at 9:40 pm33. Thanks. I missed that page when I looked.
My senators split on the vote. My representative voted in favor. So, two out of three have lost my vote next election. Only Boxer had the courage to vote no.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:45 pmHow pathetic must you be to be afraid of an incompetent retard with egregiously low ratings, despised by the populace, and you can’t muster the spine to stand by a conviction?
We have traitors in our midst.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:47 pmGood old boxer. Feingold and Sanders would be my ticket for 08. Obama and Clinton I don’t trust at all.
Nice balls again democrats.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:48 pmall the new dems voted YES???????????????
May 24th, 2007 at 9:54 pmCome on…….. all of em??????????
Democrats in Congress…
The blood is now on your hands, too.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:54 pmIn other news, McCain actually showed up for a vote.
May 24th, 2007 at 9:55 pmObama and Clinton I don’t trust at all.
Comment by srgtick — May 24, 2007 @ 9:48 pm
I agree. There’s just something that tells me their vote today was calculated. They know that in Nov. 2008 this war will be even more of a mess than it is now. Hillary will use this as her ‘See, I was against the war.” vote. She really needs one of those.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:03 pmMy e-mail to “my” Senator ,,,Harry Reid..
There are no words to describe the ANGER, FRUSTRATION and total DISGUST at what you did today on the Iraq vote. The “will of the people” (over 70% of the American people) means nothing to you. How much of this BS that went down today has to do with the Hydrocarbon law or Joe Lieberman’s threat to jump….Don’t insult the intelligence of the American People with BS.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:06 pmI wish I could take back the vote I cast for you… I am ashamed that you represent the good people of Nevada. All of you “career” politicans need to be removed from office. The blood of every American serviceman and woman and every Iraq civilian that dies from this time on is on your hands and the hands of every Democrat in the House and Senate that voted yes today. The Democrats just bought this war..
Democrats had the power to stop this insane war and you caved to “POLITICS”..
May God have mercy on your soul!.
Liz, Sheldon Whitehouse is new. He deserves RIs vote next time too.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:16 pmUnfortuantely, this wasn’t much of a surprise. We all knew in the end that the Democrats would cave to Bush on this. We need to start thinking seriously about running truly antiwar candidates against everyone that voted for this in 2008. Whether it is antiwar Democrats or Greens, those voting for this need to be removed from office. We owe it to the 655,000+ Iraqi civilians killed…
May 24th, 2007 at 10:19 pmPelosi voted “yes” on this thing? So her words the other day were weasel words. I understand her much better now.
My senators and rep voted “yes,” of course.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:19 pmOh damn, that was on the wrong thread — sorry.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:21 pmSorry, Nancy. Oy….
May 24th, 2007 at 10:22 pmThe Republicans lied us into this war. The Democrats lied us into voting for them to get us out of this war. I am convinced now that NO ONE in Washington will stand up for what is right. I’m moving to Europe.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:32 pm“Comment by SparksNV — May 24, 2007 @ 10:06 pm”
Well said (aside from the god part :)
May 24th, 2007 at 10:35 pmThough it looked like foolhardiness will continue to prevail in Congress, it was NOT to be, as the Iraq war funding bill is approved without it being “pork-laden” and revealing to our enemies a timetable for us quitting in Iraq. Now that’s BETTER.
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/ 2007/ 05/ common-sense-prevails-as-congress.html#links
May 24th, 2007 at 10:56 pmKYJuris, it did have pork in it. Kohl made sure to bring home the bacon in this bill. Wanna guess how much bribery was involved in this bill?
May 24th, 2007 at 11:05 pmgreen party
May 24th, 2007 at 11:15 pmScrew the Green party spoilers.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:20 pmUmmmm…this isnt suprising…Dems voted to allow Bush to do what he did in the first place in Iraq…..meet the old Dems…same as the new Dems. Start voting Independent and Green Party damnit! I havent voted Democrat since 1996….and I never will again.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:22 pmYeah, let’s vote Independent and Green. Then we can make damn certain our votes never count!!! Thanks for the advice.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:32 pmNice vote in 2000, Politik. Good job.
May 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pmI don’t see you idiots that voted for Nader rushing to back Gore, the real green candidate. Is it embarassment?
May 24th, 2007 at 11:35 pmJPark, I didn’t vote for Nadar, was going to but didn’t went with the Dem’s..Would vote for Gore but he’s not running…Right.?
May 25th, 2007 at 12:08 amBuckle up, its going to be a bumpy ride from here on out!
May 25th, 2007 at 1:41 amSad day in Hell. The democrats are done. Roll’um over stick a fork in um and call it a day. As of today I’m a independent. Ron Paul’s looking better everyday, at least has a spin and principle.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:53 amActions do speak much more loudly than words. If there is any consolation looking back, we were fortunate that the current Congress and Executive Branch were not in power during the 1970s. If they were, we’d still be losing soldiers in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Amazingly enough, we don’t seem to hear the Repukes vilifying Nixon and Ford for “cutting and running” from Nam, nor do we hear them lambasting Ray-Gun for withdrawing our troops after losing 241 in the Beirut bombing of the early 1980s.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:02 amAlthough I was already there, this debacle further comfirms my refusal to send contributions to organizations such as the DLC or DSCC, only to have them use a portion of those funds to help elect the traitors who turned on the American people today, violating the sacred trust of the voters who gave them a chance to make a difference. The turncoats won’t need the money anyway — the corporate beneficiaries of the ongoing occupation in the Middle East will take care of them. It’s all part of “the deal.” My goal, and I hope the goal of an ever increasing number of progressives, is to withhold financial support from the national organizations, instead using my contributions to support those who truly and consistently represent the will of the people, including some of the Senators listed above.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:13 amYou sound like a bunch of kids having tantrums. No wonder Republicans prevail in most fights: they don’t attack one another the instant things don’t go their way.
May 25th, 2007 at 6:44 amWe can write letters (again).
Senator Brown,
Your Iraq funding vote can only be described as despicable. How could you possibly doom our troops by allowing Bush et al. the funding to continue their ineptitude? As long as you lay down in the face of King George, he will continue to bully you. Are you afraid of looking like you do not support the troops? I have news for you, supporting the troops is more than just providing funding. It is about providing them with a plan and leadership and moral support. What is going to change between now and September? The plan certainly is not, the leadership certainly is not, and therefore, the morale could quite possibly suffer. YOU need to provide the plan and the leadership and not allow it to be dictated by the Bush cabal. Bush et al. have shown time and time again, whether it was by their lack of post “shock and awe†planning, their continued lack of Iraq border security, or by their reactionary retaliations that they are either willfully dictating a failing plan in Iraq or they are incompetent; neither of which our military deserves. It is time for you and the rest of Congress to stand up so that Bush can start standing down. YOU are the makers of the laws, and you are the “decidersâ€. If Bush does not like that, well then tough, this is a democracy and we put you in office to see some accountability, especially in Iraq. If you fail to step up to the plate, I’m sure we would be more than willing to find your replacement.
Thank you,
May 25th, 2007 at 9:32 amRyan M. Smith
Columbus, OH
they don’t attack one another the instant things don’t go their way.
Comment by Perry Logan
Thats because they dont have integrity. They are the “yes, sir” people.
May 25th, 2007 at 9:45 amSenator Kerry executes strong arguments AGAINST funding the war.
He is one of the best debaters I have ever seen. Further, relative to his own experience in Vietnam and objectively examing the Iraq Strategies, he does speak truth about failures on the ground! Eyes wide open for this Senator.
Yahoooooooooooo,
The LION
The link below is a copy of his Senate Floor Debate:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/ discuss/ duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×31282
May 25th, 2007 at 9:47 amPerhaps there are two reasons we rarely see this kind of reaction on the Repuke side of the aisle. 1) Many receive their marching orders from Faux News, forsaking all other sources of information. By strict avoidance of any and all critical thinking, uniformity of thought becomes the predictable outcome. Goebbels perfected this in the 1930s-1940s. Today’s wannabe Nazis have merely dusted off an old playbook. 2) The Repukes have rarely disappointed their fan club. In fact, can anyone think of a single instance when they have gone so totally against the wishes of their followers?
May 25th, 2007 at 9:50 amTheir is a great vid on conservative ethics by Jonathan Heidt at theocracy.com. What most of us libs don’t bother to consider is that loyalty to the group and to the authority of the president is a very, very important moral value to conservatives. So much so that they will have an instinctual, non-reasoned reaction to marching orders and talking points. They can’t help it. We must find a way to include/decieve Repukes into actually pausing to look at the bigger picture. How our actions will breed a bigger reaction that threatens the nation. They need to understand the symbolic nature of a grassroots, non-Washington movement against the war.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:00 amMay 24, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mr. President, this so-called compromise doesn’t do nearly enough to end the war, and I intend to vote against it.
I support our troops. They’ve fought bravely and with great courage under extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
But it was wrong for the President to send our troops to war without a plan to win the peace, and it’s wrong for Congress to keep them in harm’s way on the current failed course.
The best way to protect our troops is to bring this war to an end — not to pour more American lives into the endless black hole our Iraq policy has become.
It’s wrong for Congress to continue to defer to a presidential decision that we know is fatally flawed.
The American people know this war is wrong. It’s wrong to abdicate our responsibility by allowing this war to drag on and on while our casualties mount higher and higher.
Here is Senator Kennedys Senate Floor Statement:
Great selection of words using “logic”. And Kennedy realizes why he was voted back in office: to extract us from Vietnam II a.k.a. Iraq. Ready to DO his JOB that he was SENT to DO!!
All the best,
The LION
http://kennedy.senate.gov/ newsroom/ press_release.cfm?id=74a03211-7b5d-4aba-87a3-4e1acad77178
The President was wrong to get us into this war, wrong to conduct it so poorly, wrong to ignore the views of the American people, and wrong to stubbornly refuse to sign legislation requiring a timetable for the orderly and responsible withdrawal of our combat troops from Iraq.
It is time to end the continuing tragic loss of American lives and begin to bring our soldiers home. For the sake of our troops, we cannot repeat the mistakes of Vietnam and allow this war to drag on long after the American people know it’s a profound mistake.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:26 amYes, the blank check continues.
May 25th, 2007 at 10:42 amWe knew it would all along.
I tell you . . . ALL of this government is just a slide show.
The corporations are in contol, and have been.
TO: Ryan M. Smith
Columbus, OH
I appauld your efforts, but you really need to take it one step further in action. Gather up 30 individuals to write letters, email, or telephone his office as to WHY we MUST leave Iraq.
Adding 30 Ohioans to respectively approach this Senator WILL have an impact in September. Further, I would also ASK him why is was “absent” for the Feingold & Reid Measure Bill, the day of the VOTE. He was a NO SHOW!
I have found in other states that by adding 20 friends to the list it WILL make a difference. Friends through: schools, colleges, co-workers, doctors, dentists, places you purchase products from, your childrens organizations and clubs that you joined. Thinking os “selling” girl scout cookies. When you SHOW people what this war is costing them financially, through food and energy, people WILL get off their butts.
Also, Senator Brown should be very motivated to End the Occupation relaitve to Ohio economics; IE. Jobs, Cost of Living Factors.
Good Luck,
May 25th, 2007 at 10:44 amAll the Best To You and Yours,
The LION
WTF?
Only 14 Democratic Senators voted against giving yet another $100 Billion to Bush to keep this war going? And this is just a Supplemental Appropriations Bill.
Seriously, these people are Cowards and all of them must go!
May 25th, 2007 at 10:54 amQue Se Vayan Todos!
JUSTIFIED outrage, my fellow progressives….but why is nobody looking beyond the obvious? Could it be that our “leadership” did not cave to “politics,” but are being held hostage and hog-tied by bush/cheney/Rovian psychopathic blackmail we are unaware of?
Just imagine the absolute worst case scenario these bushpigs could threaten to set in motion…and multiply that several hundred times. THIS is in fact what’s really going on, I believe.
The bushpigs are perfectly capable of threatening a WORST possible “response” to any frustration of their power …at our expense and at the expense of our troops. Think about it. These people are EVIL, get real.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:31 pmI hope every democrat knew now how fake is politics in USA , they just act seriose in depates but in real world they would sell their own mothers to get political gains
May 25th, 2007 at 1:35 pmI am so mad
It was disgusting watching the Senate vote last night. All of these pompus ass old white folks walking around the chamber, glad handing and back slapping each other. I guess they didn’t understand they had just voted to send at least 500 more US military personnel to their deaths. To these A-holes, it was just another night at the country club, have a few cocktails and drive home drunk. You make me ashamed to be an American. As of today I will not longer support the Democrats, color me as one pissed off independant!!
May 25th, 2007 at 1:37 pmGood morning,
The centrifuges are spinning in Iran again today,
Spinning, spinning, pulling out the uranium hexafloride with the 235 isotope,
Storing up death again today,
To be used by the mullahs against the innocents in the name of allah,
As soon as they can unleash it.
I hope we have a plan.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:41 pmwe
May 25th, 2007 at 2:12 pmare
doomed
F-U Flaco. The only mullahs I fear are named cheneybushrice et al. Ever heard of the “Cold War?” Forty years of sweet profits for the MIC, all based on “the balance of terror.” These neocon psychopaths needed a new longterm scam so as to pillage our Treasury…and they have created it from A to Z.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:19 pmF U mellis
U R good at regurgitating Chomsky.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pm…I’ve never read Chomsky. It’s called common sense, and a minimum knowledge of history, a-hole.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:59 pmThis is not why we voted for the Dems. Arrgh.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:36 pmRe Comment 76:
June 2nd, 2007 at 1:38 pm“WTF?
Only 14 Democratic Senators voted against giving yet another $100 Billion to Bush…”
Look again: only 10 of them were Democrats. Three were Republicans, and one an Independent.
All those phone calls I made to help get Jim Webb elected, and he caves in the Bush.
That was the last time I’ll lift a funger - or cast a vote - for a Democra*.
le not agreeing with the Democrats’ vote on this issue, I think it’s a shame the way no one is looking at why they did what they did and what else is included in that bill. First, if they had held up funds, the Reps would have made them out to be starving our poor soldiers. Knowing they would have to eventually cave, they got us social service things the Reps had been holding denying the poor for a long time. The Dems didn’t desert us - they did what they could. I’m just ashamed of Hilary and Obama. Their vote of no was such a political move because they knew the bill would pass. This way they could look as if they disapproved, but they knew it was going through anyway. What hor****. But don’t be upset with Jim Webb or the the others who voted no. They were really expressing a true vote.
June 5th, 2007 at 12:38 am