Twenty-one Democrats and Connecticut independent Joe Lieberman — who stood with Republicans at a post-vote news conference — voted with every Republican but Gordon Smith of Oregon to approve the Iraq funding.
Democrats again failed to win votes to force removal of U.S. troops or set a nonbinding target to remove most troops by the end of next year.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
...and I thought the Democrats in Congress were [against] the Iraq War...
The Senate, by a 70-25 vote, approved $70 billion for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, "without restrictions that Democrats had insisted on for weeks."
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Congressional Democrats are spineless. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteYeah. They know how to talk, but when it comes to getting things down, they are the same as the Republicans.
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