Poor Russ (poor us)
By the way, Russ actually posts on Daily KOS. Guess even Senators head to the Internet when desperate to make sense of this ongoing, national nightmare...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MAY 22, 2007
3:39 PM
CONTACT: Senator Russ Feingold
Zach Lowe (202) 224-8657
Statement of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
On the Iraq Supplemental Conference Report
WASHINGTON - MAY 22 -“Under the President’s Iraq policies, our military has been over-burdened, our national security has been jeopardized, and thousands of Americans have been killed or injured. Despite these realities, and the support of a majority of Americans for ending the President’s open-ended mission in Iraq, congressional leaders now propose a supplemental appropriations bill that does nothing to end this disastrous war. I cannot support a bill that contains nothing more than toothless benchmarks and that allows the President to continue what may be the greatest foreign policy blunder in our nation’s history. There has been a lot of tough talk from members of Congress about wanting to end this war, but it looks like the desire for political comfort won out over real action. Congress should have stood strong, acknowledged the will of the American people, and insisted on a bill requiring a real change of course in Iraq.”
True.
And imagine... now they've even removed those annoying, 'toothless benchmarks!'
They rolled over. Completely. Pelosi and Reid gave Bush that 'blank check.' I'm sure he served them a nice banquet afterwards, in the Rose garden.
Oh, they threw in something about raising the minimum wage... like that is going to somehow make this OK.
Weren't they going to raise minimum wage anyway? When they were running for office last year, I distinctly remember them promising to get us out of Iraq AND raise minimum wage.
Its getting really hard to decide who is more corrupt these days; the GOP, or the Democrats we sent in to replace them.
Did it ever occur to them that this might seem, oh, a little disingenuous? That we may not have wanted to 'trade' something we were already promised, for a blank check on Iraq funding? Did Reid and Pelosi somehow forget why we gave them that majority last November?
My GOD these Democrats are weak. The GOP is corrupt beyond recognition, and the Democrats are weak and capitulating corporate pawns.
Depressing day.
Just to cheer us up even more, here is what we can look forward to during our next national disaster!
On May 9th, Bush released a new presidential directive appointing himself dictator ('disaster decider,' or 'crisis czar,') and of course, 'protector of the constitution' in the event of a national emergency.
Just one more reason to dread a disaster. Now I'm not sure which I'm more afraid of... the F-5 tornado, or W in my yard: with a bull horn, a maniacal grin and a bulldozer.
Protector of our 'constitutional government', huh? Yeah. Somebody had better hide the Constitution now - quick - in a place where he'd never find it (a public library would work.) You can bet that once the document was in his care, Rove or Gonzales would 'accidentally' spill their coffee all over it (or pour gasoline on it and burn it,) rendering it forever illegible... and open to entirely new interpretation!
Labels: Bush, Iraq, Russ Feingold, war supplemental
1 Comments:
I am sure the reason why they did this is because the protracted war was such a good campaign strategy in 2006. The dems undoubtedly think it will be a winning strategy in '08 as well. It's all just a game to them. It's not about us or what we want at all. Shame on them. Poor Russ is right. He's from Wisconsin where the people are naive enough to think it is about the people. I wonder how he can stand to go to get out of bed and go to work in the morning.
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