Posted on 07/21/2007 7:57:46 AM PDT by txradioguy
If Majority Leader Harry Reid can’t start pulling troops out of Iraq, he doesn’t want to start paying them any more either.
After an amendment to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq within 120 days failed to receive the 60 votes needed to proceed, Reid set the entire defense authorization bill aside. By doing so, he shelved a 3.5 percent pay raise for all uniformed service personnel, $4 billion in equipment upgrades and a new program to treat traumatic brain injuries.
To increase pressure on Republicans to support the measure, sponsored by Sen. Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) and Sen. Jack Reed (D.-R.I.), Reid threw the Senate into an all night session on Tuesday evening that lasted through Wednesday morning. Levin-Reid fell eight votes short, 52-47.
“There are two things that I want to accomplish,” Reid told reporters immediately after the amendment vote. “One is to pass a defense authorization bill, but with a deadline dealing with Iraq. Once we put that together, we'll move forward on it.”
It's a nightmare. Abandon our troops, snatch defeat from victory. How can people be so stupid to support these rats?
Domestic traitors pose a much greater threat to this country than all the foreign terrorists ever spawned.
If the Republicans can’t use this issue to show the American People how evil the Democrats are, then the old saying is really true:
There are two parties in America, the evil party and the stupid party.
He should be questioned on why he wants defeat so badly. Is he just stupid, naive or is he bought and paid for....
He is doing more damage to the US than the enemy. I can’t believe he is still allowed to act in this way. 2010 is so far away. How in the world did he get re-elected.
You don't get to prosecute the war you frikin' Constitutional moron!
Why-O-Why did the good State of Nevada give us this moron!
RESPONSE: CASH FLOW.
I’m stunned beyond belief on this.
I am one of those soldiers...with a family...that Mr. Reid is using as a political pawn via our paycheck.
I’m stunned beyond belief on this.
I am one of those soldiers...with a family...that Mr. Reid is using as a political pawn via our paycheck.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
do the dhue: Pay the Troops or Won't Pay Congress
Ho do you like them deadlines?
If the American people do not recognize the detriment that this Congress is causing our National Security and other interests, then I will lose all faith in the people.
We must remove the traitors in this Congress. I really don't want to wait until 2008 to start. I want to start impeaching the demorats and RINOs on Capital Hill right now.
I am sick of the traitors already. And if they don't like being called traitors, they shouldn't give me a reason to do so.
REMOVE REID & PELOSER PERMENTLY!!
I propose an 11% pay raise for the troops and a pat cut for congress. I hate increasing taxes but these folks deserve our support
All for show, no one in the military is going to see their paycheck affected...
Yes.
Yes, shades of Jimmy Carter, who did the same when he was president.
We will if the pay raise doesn’t go in.
AAFES likes to raise prices at the PX abut the same time our raises go in. LOL!
let Reid try to do this... it will back fire... the American people will not follow... remember when congress let the federal government shut down? even though i pretty much agreed with it, many Americans did not...
On e of the greatest liabilities with many “name” politicians is that they are so well off-or see their office as a means to wealth...that their conduct and actions betray the interests of the rest of us who NEED the rights and protections of the US Constitution to afford ourselves and our families opportunity in this world. GWB in no way shape of form NEEDS the US constitution to be sure of his and his families’ opportunity in the world. This is a very “salable” position for any politician running for office.
Just like jihad, silence is complicity.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Reid, They name be God.”
Where does it give one person, even Reid, the power to solely decide which bills will or will not be voted on?
That makes him a dictator: My way or none.
I’m confused - aside from being furious.
Time to crash their sites again= Email/FAX/phone.
It won’t make a Rats rump to the King Rats Rump, but others, looking to be reelected, will get nervous (they already got a 5 to 1 AGAINST calls/emails ad FAXes re the hate crimes bill they tried to railroad through with the DOD bill...
Time to make a big noise again....
Reid, Dems, refuse to give troops equipment upgrades and medical treatments...holding our troops political hostage
Apt quote. I might use part of it as a tagline.
I hope voters don't forget this. What is wrong with the people of Nevada? They are letting a traitor represent them. Shame on the people of Nevada.
Good grief. I believe I despise this guy as much as I do the terrorists.
So much for the ruse that the left supports the troops while objecting to the war.
Not that any Vietnam veteran with any memory at all believed them in the first place.
Dingy Harry is definitely a greater threat to the American people than terrorists.
Short of a Second American Revolution, wherein the majority of these traitors are hung by the neck or stood up against a wall, we will not be rid of them.
5.56mm
Reid perfectly represents the commies and fascist he adores.
If this were another time, I believe it would already be dun.
“[Reid] shelved a 3.5 percent pay raise for all uniformed service personnel, $4 billion in equipment upgrades and a new program to treat traumatic brain injuries. “
“We support the troops.”
“Don’t question our patriotism.”
Didn’t the democRats pitch a hissy fit because some soldiers had no body armor? Now they’re going to deny money for equipment.
Congress just voted themselves a $4,400 “cost of living” pay increase within the past couple of weeks.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/27/congress.raise.ap/index.html
Way to support the troops you lying, worthless, TRAITOR!
DANG STRAIGHT!!!
Where is the RNC? Where is the WH?
Maybe nobody wants to say anything publicly because they don't want to be blamed if something 'happens' to Scarry Reid?
I don't know, but someone needs to stuff his words back down his throat. It might be easy to start from his rear end because that is where Reid's head is!
Sounds like baby reid needs his soiled diapher changed again.
I know.
Lets call Reid out on this BS
I've heard that directly from our troops in the field - it's demoralizing and disheartening to them - and they are wondering why they aren't hearing a bigger noise from US
Time to start making that big noise -
call/email/FAX all media outlets. They have a formula: after X amount of emails/calls and FAXes - they WILL cover a story ...knowing that with that much interest, it will get covered by others
SO??
are we going to make a big noise? If we're not part of the solution, we're part of the problem
If we let the dictators get away with this, we are complicit with them - sins of omission.
Or are we 'too busy" today....???
Who's got the list of the media??? and send the same to everyone listed in the senate.
Ready.
Set
GO!
One does hope “W” is not going to continue protecting Reid and his running dog lackeys.
Not only the liberal dems, but also the MSM which is just as responsible.
great post!
We all need to copy/paste this quote and send it - with no other comment - to every libRAt and Rhino in the Senate - NOW, like in TODAY.
Just send the quote. They wont want to recognize themselves in it, but deep down, they will - and they will know just what we think of them.
As for US: Lincoln also said:
"He has the right to criticize who has he heart to help"
It's nice to commiserate in here with one another - but if we stop there, we are no better than Reid, et al.
We really need to expose the hypocrisy of these pontificating blowhards. Sitting in their ivory towers voting themselves pay raises while voting to deny our troops a meager COLA during wartime.
Im ashamed for these people. They will go down in history as traitors.
This is a political sledgehammer should we be smart enough to wield it
Hubby has been active duty for 16+ years. The politicians do such tricks from time to time, the press panics, and we always get our paycheck right when we’re supposed to. No worries.
RE:John Kerry ''His vote against the first Gulf War was, he says, a sign of his support for the first Gulf War. Whereas his vote in favor of the Iraq war was a sign of his opposition to the Iraq war. And his vote against funding America's troops in Iraq is a sign of his support for America's men and women in uniform. On the same principle, I think the best way voters this November can demonstrate their support for John Kerry is by voting against him.'' -Mark Steyn
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