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May 24, 2007

Senate: 80-14, House: 280-142

And with that this fraudulent administration can continue its criminal conduct in Iraq.

Thanks for nothing.

Here are the senators who voted against this charade:

• 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)

The Democratic presidential candidates are in bold. (The House list is too long to list so please see the House roll call to find your rep.)

Which begs the question: If these 3, who have the biggest stake in keeping with the anti-war sentiment that gave the Dems the majority in Congress, voted against this bill, despite the tired threats from Republicans that they don't support the troops; then where are all the rest of the Democrats? Are they not campaigns for re-election in 08?

I don't know how many senators are up in '08, but every single member of the House is up. And I bet that more than a few of them still have some contentious primaries to get through. And now 360 members of Congress have shown utter disregard for the will of the people.

As Olbermann says in my previous post:

...[Y]ou, Mr. Bush, imply that if the Democrats don’t give you the money and give it to you entirely on your terms, the troops in Iraq will be stranded, or forced to serve longer, or have to throw bullets at the enemy with their bare hands.

How transcendentally, how historically, pathetic.

Any other president from any other moment in the panorama of our history would have, at the outset of this tawdry game of political chicken, declared that no matter what the other political side did, he would insure personally—first, last and always—that the troops would not suffer.

In the end, it is not whether or not you support the troops by caving in to the petulant demands of a monomanical horses ass president. It is what you force that man-child playing at world domination to do when you finally and resolutely say "Enough is enough."

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