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Breaking: Reid Yanks Defense Authorization Bill To Force GOP's Hand
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| 7-18-07
| Greg Sargent
Posted on 07/18/2007 9:38:10 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf
So Reid is holding the whole defense budget hostage to his plan to unwisely withdraw from Iraq before we win.
Uh huh. That’s a fine way to run a country. Plan A for failure and plan B for surrender, which to take?
I hope he gets his head handed to him for this treasonable stupidity.
It’s a good thing these Democrat leaders in Congress are so incompetent, or they could really do some damage!!
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posted on
07/18/2007 1:58:29 PM PDT
by
WOSG
( Don't tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.)
To: Crimson Elephant
“From a purely political standpoint, Obama would do himself a world of good to stand up and completely break with his party on this issue.”
Barakc Hussein Obama owes his presidential changes and his celebrity to the simple fact that he is so inexperienced in Washington, DC, he never had to be “for the war before I was against it” - like Hillary, Kerry, Edwards, etc.
“Would have been nice for Santorum to still be around as well.”
Would have been nice if more conservatives knew how good he was and helped out in his hour of need.
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:01:53 PM PDT
by
WOSG
( Don't tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.)
To: NRG1973
If they do this, the president should declare a national emergency and shut down all non-military, nonessential federal government services (that would be about 90% of it), and funnel the funds to national defense.
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:03:03 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Our God-given unalienable rights are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)
To: sure_fine
how did the Dems pajama party become a GOP filibuster
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Just a classic illustration of making words mean the opposite of their traditional and accepted definition. They have the DBM on their side when they sell up is down and hot is cold.
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:08:55 PM PDT
by
maica
(America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
To: Red_Devil 232
“This funding bill was originally scheduled to come to the floor of the Senate in late September. The DemRats moved it up for some partisan political reason that I don’t understand.”
You don’t get it yet??
The anti-war left is mad at Pelosi and Reid for their incompetence at not stopping the ‘surge’. We are doing the *opposite* of what the lefties wanted out of the 2006 elections wrt Iraq.
Reid is panicking, doing stupid things because of the leftist base’s desire to surrender ASAP. If Reid was a real leader committed to finding the best policy in Iraq, he’d be sitting with Bush GOP leaders and planning a united way forward based on a consensus about how to win in Iraq, or at least how to do the best possible. That consensus might not be what Bush wants, but it will at least be based on coherent policy. ... Alas, Reid is committed only to political expediency and there is the rub.
Bush is committed to victory, and it is times like this were standing firm shines.
As I said before: It’s a good thing the Democrats in Congress are so incompetent, or they could do some real damage.
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:15:58 PM PDT
by
WOSG
( Don't tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.)
To: tcrlaf
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CONGRESS APPROVAL RATING 14% .....!!!
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Question is who in the HELL are these 14% and what do they like?
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:21:34 PM PDT
by
PEACE ENFORCER
(The U.S. Constitution has been Reduced to a Meaningless Document.)
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:23:16 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Famous Quotes: "I have not yet begun to fight!! ...and I'm so terribly exhausted!" --Capt Harry Reid)
To: Plains Drifter
"This bill that Harry Reid is going to pull or has pulled is packed with hate crimes laws that Ted Kennedy loaded it up with so George Bush would have to sign it. The liberal bastards manage to screw us either way we turn." It also has Durbin's DREAM bill that guarantees illegals go to the front of the student financial aid program, and less money is available for legals and citizens.
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:30:40 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Famous Quotes: "I have not yet begun to fight!! ...and I'm so terribly exhausted!" --Capt Harry Reid)
To: SirJohnBarleycorn
"However, politically it would be a way for people to support the troops and show up the Rats. The funds could be raised on the condition that if there is a legal obstacle to funding the troops, they would instead be contributed to Navy Relief or the Army equivalent, and therefore go to support our service families in another way." Or better yet, if the funds cannot go to help the troops, they will go to fund campaigns against incumbents that did not support the troops.
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:38:48 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Famous Quotes: "I have not yet begun to fight!! ...and I'm so terribly exhausted!" --Capt Harry Reid)
To: tcrlaf
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:43:17 PM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: tcrlaf; All
Just in time for the '08 campaign:
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:47:55 PM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
To: Perdogg
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posted on
07/18/2007 2:54:37 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
To: mkjessup
Ping...the democrats ARE Al Queda.
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:14:24 PM PDT
by
Fitzcarraldo
(Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
To: r9etb
Reid is making a huge political mistake which, if they're properly aggressive, the Republicans can use to destroy him.You mean OUR republicans? AMERICAN republicans? Level the truth against the communists in this country, stand soldily by their statements and and use it to our own advantage??
It's a nice fantasy, but...
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:16:04 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(PUT AMERICA AHEAD --- VOTE FOR FRED!!.)
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
The shutdown was blamed on Gingrich, even though Slick vetoed the balanced budget. Let's not forget how the video drive-bys had a long succession of claimed-to-be downtrodden (sometimes black, sometimes female) government workers moaning how they were being beset with tremendous hardship by the eeevil Republicans, even within days of the shutdown, though no gubmint workers had yet missed a single paycheck, and never would miss a paycheck in that or succeeding years.
HF
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:22:03 PM PDT
by
holden
To: tcrlaf
Reid is hammering the nails into his own political coffin and exposing what a spiteful petty little sonovabitch he really is.
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:37:53 PM PDT
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Repeat after me liberals:" President Thompson", "President Thompson" . Get used to it, libs.)
To: Christian4Bush; tobyhill
Never heard of the "Continual Resolution".Nor had I. Let's hope Reid/Pelosi et. al. haven't, either.
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:39:04 PM PDT
by
HKMk23
(Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
To: I_like_good_things_too
Lincoln Chafees loss mattered.
No it didn't. He would be one of the first to cut and run to the democrats the first chance he got.
His loss was necessary.
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:45:11 PM PDT
by
wasp69
(space for rent)
To: burrite
Maybe Milkulski was hoping to play spin the bottle with Graham..or 7 minutes in heaven with Allard and they both told her no...Republicans are obvioulsy no fun at slumber parties
LOL! That was worth repeating. You know I did get a couple of crank calls last night. Wonder which Dem is responsible?
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:47:28 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: KC Burke
[It would be a tie and not a majority change. wouldnt it?]
Yes, it would be a tie to be broken by CHENEY!!!
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posted on
07/18/2007 3:59:10 PM PDT
by
dbacks
(I forgot to pay the rent on my tagline.)
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