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They honestly thought they would be able to spin the vetoes as “Bush vetoes children”, “Bush vetoes troops in the field”. The people who follow this stuff closely never fell for that sham, not for one second.

The Democrats in Congress have internal polling that alerted them to their failure to convince people that Bush was to blame for Congressional incompetence.
Their plan went over like a whiffle boat.

Maybe Harry “the body” Reid was right when he said “the war is lost”, if he meant the Democrats war against the President. Yes, he’s a loser.

Say what you want about other aspects of the legislation, but I think we are missing out on a golden opportunity to portray this as, “the Democrats are joining the fight.”

The benefits of doing so would be;

1. It would show a united front against our enemies.
2. It would unhinge the far left and contribute to the already developing party fracture.
3. It might get more members of Congress and Americans to actually route for victory.

Last time anyone dared take a poll on the subject, some 75% of all Americans supported Term Limits for Congress. That support cut across all categorizations, age, gender, race, party affiliation.

Professional politicians, for obvious reasons, don’t support this, so if we’re going to get it, we need to pressure them, starting with the state legislators.

They continue to go against the tide. Most Americans want our border secure, our troops funded, less not more taxes, etc… The more they show of themselves the less likely they are received well. You know the metaphor “like putting lipstick on a pig…” She’s still a pig.

The fact that there was even an argument that left our personnel high and dry while in combat enrages me.

The only victory I see is the Democrats look like idiots for trying to surrender to the enemy in a war we are currently winning. I am very pleased our troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan will be funded. I agree with other posters no more Vietnams! Thank God the Goracle invented the internet so we have people like Michelle able to spread the news of what our Government is trying to sneak by us.

I also can’t wait to see the outrage come April when Congresses failure to act on the AMT will bite 23 million of us in the butt. Hearsay has it that the average tax increase will be $2,000. Talk about being stuck on stupid going into a major election year.

Not Voting – 5
Biden (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Obama (D-IL)

If they don’t exercise their obligation to vote on matters for the constituency, why should the constituency vote for them?

Now would be the time to get that information out there so we know who NOT to vote for.
(as if we don’t already, but there may be some noobs out there who could use the info.)

On December 19th, 2007 at 5:18 am, meatpieandtatters said:
A hollow victory: our troops are funded but the feckless leadership still has their hands tied.

What he said.

Feingold Amdt. No. 3875; “To provide for the safe redeployment of United States troops from Iraq.”

I caught this vote while helping my mother-in-law. Pure crap. My first thought was why do they bother wasting time on these “amendments” when there is so many other things to do. Way to go you stupid Wisconson voters (present company excluded of course). Keep putting that waste of a senator back in there just so you can feel like he’s “doing something” Nuts!!!

I also watched as my Junior senator Mr. Cardin voted Yea. Way to cover your nutroot butt, you coward!

As for the Levin amendment, when I heard him say that it was a non-binding “sense of the Congress” vote, I knew that this would be a cover vote for all the nutroot senators who voted against the previous Feingold amendment.

Can they find anything else to waste their (and our) time on??

I get so sick watching C-Span. This is supposed to be the the best this country can come up with?

Where’s my waste basket?