Worthy News: Senate plans vote against troop surge - Washington Times

[George]

Senators introduced a resolution yesterday disapproving of President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, setting up a confrontation with the White House, which warned that those who vote for it will face charges that they don't support the troops.

http://www.worthynews.com/news/washingtont...8-120919-3726r/

[forrestkc]

This is such a joke. "A non-binding resolution against the troop surge in Iraq". I was watching the Daily Show last night and John Stewart made an acute observation on this. What difference is a non-binding resolution going to make, for crying out loud, President Bush considers the constitution to be a "non-binding resolution".

[nebula]

Unfortunately, the Dems are showing themselves to be more interested in politics than winning the war.

[kat8585]

Unfortunately, the Dems are showing themselves to be more interested in politics than winning the war.

They've always been more interested in power than anything.

[TheoMike]

Unfortunately, the Dems are showing themselves to be more interested in politics than winning the war.

They've always been more interested in power than anything.

Agreed. But it sends a terrible message to our allies and enemies. Imagine, two more years of this.

[Hypathia]

Unfortunately, the Dems are showing themselves to be more interested in politics than winning the war.

They've always been more interested in power than anything.

And the republicans haven't???

[Marnie]

Unfortunately, the Dems are showing themselves to be more interested in politics than winning the war.

They've always been more interested in power than anything.

And the republicans haven't???

No. Politics is what it is, but the GOP has a tad more dignity. Former Sen. Fred Thompson ® comes to mind. He said he would serve a term, he did, accomplished what he set out to and called it quits and returned to acting.

[forrestkc]

No. Politics is what it is, but the GOP has a tad more dignity.

I am surprised you wrote that with a straight face. The Republican congress over the last few years, especially the House under Tom Delay, was probably the most corrupt congress in United States history. Maybe you should read up on The K-Street Project.

Here is a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project

[forrestkc]

No. Politics is what it is, but the GOP has a tad more dignity.

I am surprised you wrote that with a straight face. The Republican congress over the last few years, especially the House under Tom Delay, was probably the most corrupt congress in United States history. Maybe you should read up on The K-Street Project.

Here is a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project

They were no where close to being the most corrupt congress. The pre-1994 congress was the one mired with such things as the house banking scandle and postal scandles. In addition, no sooner had the Dems taken over and we have had all kinds of things leaking out about Democratic leaders such as Harry Reid being involved in shady deals. To say the Republicans had "a tad more dignity" is very accurate. They had their problems, but were slightly better than the Democrats.

In addition, they have been more willing to take principled stands over politics. You yourself admited that Clinton governed by polls. It is obvious Bush doesn't do that, because if he did, he would not have tried to overhaul Social Security, kept the troops in Iraq, or continued to oppose tax payer funded embryonic stem cell research. Those are all positions I agree with, but are not popular nationally. Democrats on the other hand say they oppose the troop build up in Iraq so what do they do? They take a non-binding vote saying they oppose it while voting to fund it. They are nothing but hypocrites. In addition, just last month, many of these same Democrats said they wanted a troop surge, because they thought Bush wouldn't support one. Now that he has, they oppose it. Pure politics.

The number of ear marks multiplied by over 10 times from 1994 to 2006. They were selling votes plain and simple.

[forrestkc]

No. Politics is what it is, but the GOP has a tad more dignity.

I am surprised you wrote that with a straight face. The Republican congress over the last few years, especially the House under Tom Delay, was probably the most corrupt congress in United States history. Maybe you should read up on The K-Street Project.

Here is a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Street_Project

They were no where close to being the most corrupt congress. The pre-1994 congress was the one mired with such things as the house banking scandle and postal scandles. In addition, no sooner had the Dems taken over and we have had all kinds of things leaking out about Democratic leaders such as Harry Reid being involved in shady deals. To say the Republicans had "a tad more dignity" is very accurate. They had their problems, but were slightly better than the Democrats.

In addition, they have been more willing to take principled stands over politics. You yourself admited that Clinton governed by polls. It is obvious Bush doesn't do that, because if he did, he would not have tried to overhaul Social Security, kept the troops in Iraq, or continued to oppose tax payer funded embryonic stem cell research. Those are all positions I agree with, but are not popular nationally. Democrats on the other hand say they oppose the troop build up in Iraq so what do they do? They take a non-binding vote saying they oppose it while voting to fund it. They are nothing but hypocrites. In addition, just last month, many of these same Democrats said they wanted a troop surge, because they thought Bush wouldn't support one. Now that he has, they oppose it. Pure politics.

The number of ear marks multiplied by over 10 times from 1994 to 2006. They were selling votes plain and simple.

Really? How about Clinton taking illegal campaign contributions from the Communist Chinese, and how about the fact that during that same period of time, we ended up selling them computer technology that has made it possible for them to hit America with nuclear misciles? You can make all the claims about Republicans being more corrupt than Dems, but it a lie, and anyone that has been keeping up with the various scandles over the years knows better.

Here is some more illegal activity from the Democrats. Breaking into a Republican headquarters in Florida and assaulting one of the volunteers. Cutting the tires on vans belonging to Republicans. Buying votes from street people for cartons of cigarrettes. Numerous illegal voter registration drives, signing up people who were dead or didn't exist. Forget it Forrest. Republicans have a lot of ground to gain before they will ever be as corrupt as Democrats.

Various contrived scandals. Democrats claim Republicans slit there tires on election day. Moreover, Republicans routinely call Registered Democrats posing as Election officials and give them the wrong polling locations.

Face the facts, both parties have been swimming the sewers for quite some time now.