Anti-War Bloc in House Vows to Oppose Further Iraq Funding

[babylonsister]

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqm/cqmidday110-000002555651.html

Anti-War Bloc in House Vows to Oppose Further Iraq Funding

A group of 69 House Democrats has put the White House on notice that its members will not support any more war funding bills unless the measures include a timeline for withdrawal from Iraq.

“We agree with a clear and growing majority of the American people who are opposed to continued, open-ended U.S. military operations in Iraq,” the anti-war bloc, led by California Democrats Lynn Woolsey and Barbara Lee, wrote in a letter to President Bush Thursday. Woolsey and Lee co-chair the Out of Iraq Caucus.

Ron Paul of Texas was the only Republican to sign the letter.

The announcement — the latest sign that Democrats are determined to limit U.S. involvement in Iraq —follows the decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to pull the fiscal 2008 Defense authorization bill (HR 1585) from the Senate floor this week after attempts to add a withdrawal mandate were blocked by a GOP filibuster.

Rather than allow votes on non-binding withdrawal proposals, Reid decided to wait until more Republicans are ready to join Democrats on a mandatory timeline. Only four GOP senators crossed party lines July 18 to vote in favor of limiting debate on the withdrawal amendment to the defense bill.

[rodeodance]

1. I wonder if they wrote this letter to Pelosi?? also

[Peace Patriot]

2. It's interesting that the percentage of real representatives of the American people

in Congress has not changed, from the Diebold I Congress (the last one) to Diebold II (this one). We vote, and nothing happens. A MINORITY of the Democratic Congress members is still trying--courageously, dauntlessly--to represent the great of majority of Americans. During Diebold I, that majority of Americans against the war grew from a significant 56%, just before the war (Feb. '03), to an overwhelming 70% majority today. And still nothing changes.

The "new" Congress puts "impeachment off the table" and re-funds the war with ANOTHER $100 billion of our non-existent money, for Bush/Cheney to kill more Iraqis in order to force them to give up their oil rights.

I think that's what Diebold/ES&S "trade secret," proprietary vote tabulation was/is all about--to retain that upside down percentage in Congress, against the interests and views of the great, peace-minded, justice-minded American majority, whether it has a 'D' in front of it, or an 'R.' Doesn't matter. Basically nothing changes, because two rightwing Bushite corporations--Diebold and ES&S--and now calling ALL election results from under a veil of corporate secrecy. The fascist vote in Congress ranges from about 55% to 70%, depending on the issue. The more important the issue is to the war profiteers and global corporate predators who are now running our government--"trade secret," proprietary vote counting, the war, military funding, troop safety/slave labor deployments, impeachment, accountability of any kind, Constitutional government, rule of law, "free trade" (global corporate piracy) rules, funding of the police state, domestic spying, etc.--the less representation we have.

These 69 House Democrats, who are trying to represent our interests, are not even 25% of the House. 25% was about where the strength of the real representatives was during Diebold I. So we may even have LOST GROUND by electing a so-called Democratic Congress.

Impeachment "off the table."
The ONLY Constitutional tool for reining in an out-of-control president is "off the table."
The war is ESCALATED, and larded with more money.
Not stopped. Not de-funded. Not even a time-table.
ESCALATED!
Now Bush/Cheney can do anything they damn please--like today, Bush's statement that he will NOT enforce ANY Congressional subpoenas.
That is the direct result of taking "impeachment off the table." (WHAT table, Nancy? WHOSE table?)

Is this what the American people voted for?
DID the American people in fact vote?
Or did Diebold/ES&S just program Karl Rove's figures into their "trade secret" code?