U.S. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, and Nick Rahall, D-3rd, voted late Wednesday for legislation that The Associated Press reports would provide $50 billion for the Iraq war but also "require President Bush to start bringing troops home in coming weeks with a goal of ending combat by December 2008."
Rep. Shelley Moore, R-2nd, voted against HR 4156, which prevailed 218-203.
Four Republicans crossed party lines to support the measure, while 15 Democrats opposed it.
The AP calls the bill "largely a symbolic jab at Bush," as troop reductions have already begun, and deems it unlikely to clear the Senate.
"The White House pledged to veto the bill, and Republicans said they would back the president," the AP article said.
Why do the Dems keep trying to micromanage the troops and surrender just as we're seeing good progress? After over 40 tries (and failures) now to surrender in Iraq, you'd think they'd learn something. Could it be that they've set themselves up to win politically only if we lose militarily? That's a horrible position to be in. I feel for them.
ReplyDeleteA STENTORIAN CONCERT OF LIES
ReplyDeleteDid Lincoln err in the assertion
That right makes might? I think not;
Though striving hard, with much exertion
Such zealots as do blink not
Strive through their efforts to disprove,
Or rather to assert quite
The opposite: how much they love
The old saw, might makes right.
But is it yet correct? We know
When Lincoln was alive
Him animosity did show
Men most vituperative.
It was, alas, majority
If not complete a quorum
Disliked intensely him: but he
But held to his decorum.
´Twas only when assassinated
Did he become a saint,
With sudden swiftness: fascinated
Men see no more as quaint
His language true so much revered
As it endures the trials
Of time--yet some the concept feared,
Brewed schemes in secret vials.
One incubated long today
Has open come to flourish--
Which some declare the Christian way
Though it seems rather Moorish.
That "might makes right" these loud assert
And wage a war to prove it,
Hurt victims trouncing in the dirt
To get the spoil they covet.
Much oil they need, who lucubrate
At night beneath the lamp
To make their theft seem bold and great,
Trespassers who encamp.
Therefore so as to justify
They struggle to convince
Just by these words, "it´s do or die,"
Nor do their slogans mince.
The masses, up to the extent
Approval is required
Do they cajole, coerce--till lent
Sanction, ambitions fired,
They set about to bash the brain
Of any non-assentor,
Drowning out Lincoln´s language plain
Cacophobies of Stentor.