Kucinich: 'Non-binding resolutions' are an excuse for serious action

[Flabbergasted]

As both the Senate and the House consider and debate "non-binding resolutions" to address the President's proposed "troop surge" in Iraq, Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich took the floor of the House today to declare, "The House will soon entertain a resolution relating to the surge. It is a nonbinding resolution. The war, however, is binding."

"The real -- and Constitutional -- power of Congress, as a co-equal branch of government, is to cut off funds for an immoral and illegal war," Kucinich said. "Money is there right now to bring our troops home, and bringing our brave troops home is part of a plan that involves enlisting the support of the United Nations to mobilize international peacekeepers so our men and women can come home."

"I have a 12-point plan which I have circulated among Members of Congress," Kucinich said, "as to how we can get out of Iraq. The American people will not tolerate nonbinding resolutions as being an excuse for strong and substantive action to end the war as quickly as possible."

http://kucinich.us/node/2649

[EndElectoral]

1. Well said Dennis...starting to think we need a Kucinich-Feingold ticket

[Daylin Byak]

2. Dennis, you couldn't said it more.

All this does for both parties is thay yeah we don't agree with the Prez plans but were not going to do anything about it right now.

Reid better get his shit together soon, or my 2009 well be calling him Minority Leader Harry Reid real real quick.

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Dennis is so right. I don't know who the pols think they're fooling

with non-binding resolutions.

[LWolf]

4. Well, at least

the rest of the pack is considering telling the world that they disagree with Mr. Bush, even if they don't want to cross the line into active opposition by actually introducing, debating, supporting, and voting for something that takes action to halt his march to destruction.

We're all supposed to be impressed, and admiring, when, years after the fact, the rest of the pack finally decides that maybe they ought to disagree with him about Iraq, right?

We're supposed to be so impressed that we don't pay any mind to those that were actively opposing the actions in Iraq from the first.

I'm not that impressed, to be frank, with the "let's wring our hands about how wrong he is" crowd. I am impressed with Congressman Kucinich, and the rest of the reps, who have stood without their hand-wringing colleague's respect or support, doing the harder job of actual opposition, all along.

[Time4Peace]

5. Congressman Kucinich is quite impressive

:toast:

[Flabbergasted]

6. Welcome to DU

[goodhue]

7. !

[goodhue]

10. !

[Imagevision]

8. Kucinich the first to say cut the freegin funding!! get their attention!

I'd like to hear more of what Kucinich and Obama has to say?!!

[Greyhound]

9. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

This one totally slipped by me and, I'm sure, most of DU. He is the only candidate making sense, the only one proposing plans that will make real improvement, and the only one with nothing to try to justify or side-step. He is also the only one that is being sabotaged from both sides, coincidence?

:kick: & a virtual R

[EndElectoral]

11. At least with Kuccinich you know he'd get us out of Iraq!

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. Kucinich needs to show his leadership skills and

get the House to consider his legislation. No more "the Republicans are in charge" BS. Now we will just how effective he is.

[Nederland]

13. Exactly

If Kucinich really has the leadership skills to be President, he should easily be able to get something more substantial through the House.

[paulk]

14. actually, it's a way of putting something "on the record"

when you're not sure a binding resolution would pass...