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June 15, 2006
Call them out
The method of fleecing America is failing and they hate it:
In spite of the many serious problems we have just discussed, what is the United States Senate going to debate this week?
A new energy policy? NO.
Will we debate the raging war in Iraq? NO.
Will we address our staggering national debt? NO.
Will we address the seriousness of global warming? NO
Will we address the aging of America? NO.
Will we address America’s education dilemma? NO.
Will we address rising crime statistics? NO.
Will we debate our county’s trade imbalance? NO.
Will we debate Stem Cell Research? NO.
But what we will spend most of the week on is a constitutional amendment that will fail by a large margin, a constitutional amendment on Same Sex Marriage—an effort that failed to pick up a simple majority, when we recently voted on it. Remember, an Amendment to our Constitution requires 67 votes. Harry Reid, D-Nevada
And when there is a debate? Well...
Democrats in the House are divided over whether to boycott a debate and vote on the war in Iraq that Republicans have scheduled for today.
Stymied by their inability to offer amendments to the Republican-drafted resolution supporting President George W. Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq, Democrats such as House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, Rep. Louise Slaughter and Rep. Neil Abercrombie are considering a walkout.
...Faced with mounting criticism in Congress and dropping public support for the war, the White House has tried to gain momentum on the war this week. Buoyed by the killing of Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Bush held a retreat at Camp David, Md., with his war cabinet Monday, made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday and held an upbeat news conference Wednesday.
Rather than engage in what they consider to be a politically disadvantageous debate over Iraq, Abercrombie said he's asking Democrats to assemble on the Capitol steps to protest.
Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, and Slaughter, the senior Democrat on the House Rules Committee, said Democrats may boycott the debate.
Posted by Aaron at June 15, 2006 09:24 AM
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