Wasting time... Symbolic Votes

[USPatriot8320]

Democrats Plan Symbolic Votes Against Iraq Plan </NYT_HEADLINE><NYT_BYLINE type=" " version="1.0">
By JEFF ZELENY and CARL HULSE
</NYT_BYLINE><NYT_TEXT>WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — Democratic leaders said Tuesday that they intended to hold symbolic votes in the House and Senate on President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Baghdad, forcing Republicans to take a stand on the proposal and seeking to isolate the president politically over his handling of the war.
Senate Democrats decided to schedule a vote on the resolution after a closed-door meeting on a day when Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts introduced legislation to require Mr. Bush to gain Congressional approval before sending more troops to Iraq.
The Senate vote is expected as early as next week, after an initial round of committee hearings on the plan Mr. Bush will lay out for the nation Wednesday night in a televised address delivered from the White House library, a setting chosen because it will provide a fresh backdrop for a presidential message.

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But Republican officials conceded that at least 10 of their own senators were likely to oppose the plan to increase troops levels in Iraq. And Democrats were proposing their resolution with that in mind, hoping to send a forceful message that as many as 60 senators believed strengthening American forces in Baghdad was the wrong approach. Democratic leaders said they expect all but a few of their senators to back the resolution.

Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/washington/10capitol.html?ei=5065&en=43a3f1448e55872c&ex=1169096400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print)

[Air-Warrior]

Conscientious Dems and ALL Republicans should walk out when such stupid motions take place.

[DesertFox]

Well, this makes as much sense as anything else Democrats have proposed or done -- if more troops are needed, don't send any; if fewer troops are needed, send more. The Democrat cure for any national headache is hit the country in the head with a hammer.

[DoctorDoom]

On the plus side, when the Congresscritters are busy taking meaningless show-biz votes, they're not engaged in further encroachments on our liberty.

[Naturalized-Texan]

These "symbolic votes" are a sure sign that the Dims are completely misreading the results of the congressional elections. The Dims think that they won because the voters wanted us to surrender to the terrorists. In reality, the Dims didn't win; the Republicans lost. The Republicans lost because they haven't been conservative enough and because they haven't been tough enough in fighting the War on Terror. These "symbolic votes" will backfire big against the Dims and they are too stupid to realize it.

[d'urville]

These "symbolic votes" are a sure sign that the Dims are completely misreading the results of the congressional elections.

That and the fact that's it's a rip-off of the GOP putting their "cut 'n run" ideas up for vote last year.


The Dims think that they won because the voters wanted us to surrender to the terrorists.

That perception is one of the worst delusions of all, because the terrorists agree with them.


In reality, the Dims didn't win; the Republicans lost.

As did the entire country.


The Republicans lost because they haven't been conservative enough and because they haven't been tough enough in fighting the War on Terror.

* cough * amnesty * cough *

It's a sure-fire win for any candidate that'll take a hard line on both amnesty and the WoT in 2008. The Majority Party is doing everything out of sync again, why raise the minimum wage now when that'll tank the economy in about two years? They live for the day.



These "symbolic votes" will backfire big against the Dims and they are too stupid to realize it.

There will be hell for them to pay, they ran against their own moveon base with no real strategy to implement in case they happened to win by default, which they did.