News Flash - Republicans FINALLY Re-Locate Their Cajones!
WASHINGTON — The Senate's Democratic majority failed Monday to shut off debate on a non-binding resolution that "disagrees" with President Bush's troop surge in Iraq, throwing debate on the policy into limbo and depriving Democrats of a bipartisan rebuke of the White House.
The vote on a motion to end debate was 49 to 47, well short of the 60 votes necessary to end debate and move toward passage of the non-binding resolution sponsored by Sen. John Warner, R- Va., and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
Forty-nine Democrats voted to end debate. One opposed that move, Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who labels himself an Independent Democrat and supports the president's new Iraq strategy of sending 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.
All Republicans present voted against cutting off debate, including Warner and Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, both of whom vehemently oppose sending more U.S. troops to Iraq.
Democrats knew they would lose today's vote and spent most of the day accusing Republicans of using parliamentary tactics to dodge an Iraq debate sure to embarrass the president.
posted by TheBitterAmerican @ 9:16 PM
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Republicans voted "against cutting off the debate"??? Why TrekMed, how *can* that be?
I have it on good authority from massive MSM headlines that it's the Republicans who are preventing the debate by not allowing it to come to a vote on the floor.
And it's *such* an important resolution, too. Should effectively change *everything* in Iraq immediately and prove to all us Americans that the Dem controlled Congress truly IS doing something about the war.
Snore... zzzzzz.... sniff. Such ado about truly nothing, this all is. Can we have some real news now? LOL
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