The next Iraq War funding vote is in a few weeks - why do things seem so quiet?

[RiverStone]

Maybe after the BIG let down last May, many progressives are either assuming another cave in by DEMS or have simply grown cynical, detached, or to damn angry to read the MSM anymore.

Remember the drum beating and protest marches leading up to last May's vote? From my vantage point, here we are just a few days out from September - the same September where we are to either give Shrub more fucking time to run his reckless and failed policy deeper into the hole - or finally...FINALLY tie a withdrawal time-line to continued funding.

A few remain consistently and loudly against more funding (huge kudo's to Dennis Kucinich); though I almost sense a certain fatalistic assumption that the generals will report what Shrub wants them to say - and ad nauseam - the funding for the Iraq war will continue unabated. The DEMS will remain fractured and not vote in unison to end the damn thing.

Of course, I hope I'm wrong. I don't read the corporate news as much anymore either.

I too have grown cynical. Sadly assuming the DEMS on The Hill will (yet again) NOT do as they promised they would in November of 2006...END THE WAR.

Will September's vote look different than May's? :shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

1. Everyone has an idea of what will happen, I think.

There will be just enough "progress" to forestall any real legislation from passing (aside from toothless bullshit like the Iraq Study Group bill). I also think there will be more focus on Iran--and if anything happens in Iran, our troops will have to stay in Iraq to support that new mission. Congress will be afraid to reduce troop levels if it means giving up our front in the NEXT war. It's looking kinda negative.

[OneBlueSky]

2. well, I'm drawing my own personal line in the sand . . . I will NEVER vote for anyone . . .

who votes in favor of spending another $50 million (which, btw, WE DON'T HAVE!) on this illegal and immoral war . . . not in the primaries, and not in the general election . . . there's some things you just have to take a stand on if you want to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, and this is one of them . . .

will it make any difference at all in the grand scheme of things? . . . not a chance . . . but at least I'll be able to live with myself . . .

[RiverStone]

3. Exactly!

there's some things you just have to take a stand on if you want to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, and this is one of them . . .

Too bad more Dems on The Hill don't feel the same way OneBlueSky!

[Timmy5835]

4. What is interesting......

.....and may gum up the works for Bush is the Pentagon doesn't want the extra money, Gates didn't even ask for it.

[mudesi]

5. This is their LAST chance for me

It's time for the Democrats to put up or shut up. Send a bill and let him veto it. After he vetoes it, send it again. If he continues with his petulance, don't send a bill at all and force his hand.

Either way, this is their last chance for me, personally. If they let us down again, I will lose all hope.