Big surprise here….Chuck Hagel, the man who has doomed his Presidency run even before it began….supported the cut n’ run strategy today that he opposed two weeks ago:
Senate Democrats scored a surprise victory yesterday in their bid to force President Bush to end the Iraq war, turning back a Republican amendment that would have struck a troop withdrawal plan from emergency military funding legislation.
The defection of a prominent Republican war critic, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, sealed the Democrats’ win. Hagel, who opposed identical withdrawal language two weeks ago, walked onto the Senate floor an hour before the late-afternoon vote and announced that he would "not support sustaining a flawed and failing policy," adding: "It’s now time for the Congress to step forward and establish responsible boundaries and conditions for our continued military involvement in Iraq."
Of course it’s now going to go to the Presidents desk where it will be promptly vetoed. No bill that includes any kind of timetable will be passed, period. The Democrats are trying to appease their masters but it will be short lived since instead of doing something constructive by oh, I don’t know, putting up a bill that has a chance to be signed, they instead are doing political theater. It’s one big show to these pukes.
Pukes maybe too good a word for them….cowards, self-serving, traitorous bastards would be better but you know me….just too nice to go down that route.
These people change their belief system, change their votes with the wind. Whichever way the money tree bends you will see them chasing after it. Not more then a few weeks ago these cowards who voted for this bill were saying: (via Redstate)
“Anyone who tells you we can set a timetable for withdrawal doesn’t understand war. And anyone who says that nothing can be done to speed a secure peace doesn’t understand America.”
"I’m bothered by dates. I think you still have to go on conditions for staying.”“I, for example, am not in support of circling a date on a calendar and saying, ‘no matter what, we’re out on that date.’ ”
“I do not believe that it is a wise policy to set a specific date for a withdrawal from Iraq.”
But now all of sudden they all support a bill they opposed…I wonder why? Could it be from the pork? (click each one to read the specific pork item)
- $24 million for funding for sugar beets.
- $3 million for funding for sugar cane (goes to one Hawaiian co-op).
- $20 million for insect infestation damage reimbursements in Nevada, Idaho, and Utah.
- $2.1 billion for crop production losses.
- $1.5 billion for livestock production losses.
- $100 million for Dairy Production Losses.
- $13 million for Ewe Lamb Replacement and Retention Program.
- $32 million for Livestock Indemnity Program.
- $40 million for the Tree Assistance Program.
- $100 million for Small Agricultural Dependent Businesses.
- $6 million for North Dakota flooded crop land.
- $35 million for emergency conservation program.
- $50 million for the emergency watershed program.
- $115 million for the conservation security program.
- $18 million for drought assistance in upper Great Plains/South West.
- Provision that extends the availability by a year $3.5 million in funding for guided tours of the Capitol. Also a provision allows transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop.
- $165.9 million for fisheries disaster relief, funded through NOAA (including $60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin region).
- $12 million for forest service money (requested by the president in the non-emergency FY2008 budget).
- $425 million for education grants for rural areas (Secure Rural Schools program).
- $640 million for LIHEAP.
- $25 million for asbestos abatement at the Capitol Power Plant.
- $388.9 million for funding for backlog of old Department of Transportation projects.
- $22.8 million for geothermal research and development.
- $500 million for wildland fire management.
- $13 million for mine safety technology research.
- $31 million for one month extension of Milk Income Loss Contract program (MILC)
- $50 million for fisheries disaster mitigation fund.
- $100 million for security at the Presidential Candidate Nominating Conventions
- $2 million for the University of Vermont
This is the new and improved Congress where we have Hagel voting for the cut n run bill and Lieberman against…the same bill that was bounced off the floor two weeks ago passes today all because of bribes.
Wonderful job Dem’s, you should be patting yourselves on the back for this one.
It gonna get vetoed and Bush will NOT negotiate a timetable. I’m telling you with 100% certainty he will not accept anything with any kind of timetable. So either the Democrats put up a bill that funds our troops, with NO conditions, or they will be blamed from all sides for putting our soldiers into even more danger with no funds to support them. It’s a game of chicken apparently and my money is on Bush.
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Nice, and using Scarlett as one of the photo’s definately made me happy!
great list of links Curt, I hope you don’t mind if I steal them later for a post of my own.
Hagel is off his medication again….LOL
Thanks for posting the pork roll Curt. I was looking for something like that and couldn’t find it anywhere.
Bush came out with another strong statement on this subject today.I liked that he cited “Iraq the model” though not by name, as on the ground proof the surge is working.
The truth is, we all know that Dems are just itching for the veto, even though they know they will lose.
And what’s this about Harry Reid saying they won’t even rush this bill to a conference?
Obviously just playing games when the lives of US soldiers are on the line.
The dhimmi’s have been busy little beavers. While setting up our soldiers to be slaughtered in Iraq they have also been contracting (no bid) with an outside law firm the help investigate a non-crime at the Justice Department. Since the law firm is a large contributor to the dhimmi’s it can only be called a payoff. Doesn’t the Justice Department now have a duty to initiate an investigation of the dhimmi leadership (joke) of the Senate on felony criminal charges? A pay off is still a crime isn’t it, or does that just apply to us ‘common’ folks?
Read a good description of the congress today:
An old age rest home for failed and retarded lawyers. The shoe fits.
Perhaps if the last do nothing Republican congress had done a little of the heavy lifting on the budget the Democrats wouldn’t have had to deal with yet another mess.