Biden: We HAVE to fund the war....to "SUPPORT" the troops

[Bluebear]

"I believe as long as we have troops in the front line, we're going to have to protect them," said Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. "We're going to have to fund them."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070524/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq

Just like he "had" to support the credit card companies with his bankruptcy bill vote. What a sorry Republican-light DLC creation he is.

[aquart]

1. Ah, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Believing that craven capitulation will get him the White House? Biden is one of the reasons for this horrid betrayal.

[Rydz777]

2. Biden says he will support the Democratic capitulation even

though he disagrees with it. This is classical mugwump - mug on one side and wump on the other. Dodd is forthright and says he will not vote to issue Bush any blank checks. We'll soon know how the other candidates stand (or bow.)

After four years of disaster, the American people know that the way to support the troops is to bring them home alive NOW.

[mmonk]

3. Tell a lie enough times and people will believe you.

[pberq]

4. That's our Joe Biden - a traitor just like he always has been

[Atman]

5. Yes, because SUPPORT means keeping them there forever, not coming home.

That's an odd definition of support, if you ask me.

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[Swamp Rat]

6. The front line is 15 blocks from my house! .... FUND OUR LEVEES GODDAMMIT!!!

FUCK YOU BIDEN!!!

[Solly Mack]

26. (((Swamp)))

[Coexist]

43. much love from here

:hug:

[dave_p]

7. How can anyone take this clown seriously?

So long as the troops are there, we have to keep passing the war funding.

But so long as we keep passing the funding, the WH will keep the troops there.

Great thinking, Joe.

What an imbecile.

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. Fuck you, Joe. You're a coward, and you have blood on your hands. nt

[sutz12]

9. Well, hell. At least repeal the Bush tax cuts to pay for it. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. HA! When Hell freezes over and not one minute before! Ain't gonna happen.

Paying taxes and fighting in wars are only for the little people. :eyes: george's real base, the Haves and Have Mores won't be asked to sacrifice anything.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Biden attending a fundraising picnic in my area this weekend -

I feel very tempted to attend, just to give him the "what for" over this latest vote!! :mad:

[spotbird]

30. please do. nt

[Beelzebud]

11. This is why we always lose. We adopt their talking points as facts.

The whole absurd idea that if we de-fund the war it will "leave troops in the field without any equipment", is total bullshit.

Taking away King George's money is not EVER going to translate into our soldiers having to hand in their weapons and armor, and just go hungry as they swim back to America.

That is a right-wing meme, and it's pathetic that just about EVERY prominent Democrat plays right into it.

[Nunyabiz]

13. Dont you just love hearing a Dem spew

Rethuglican talking points and treating them as if they are reality instead of the bald faced lies they are?

[NC_Nurse]

14. Bullshit.

STFU, Joe.

[The Stranger]

15. Ralph Nader was right.

[skipos]

24. That Gore=Bush?

It is still quite obvious that he was very, very wrong about that.

[The Stranger]

28. Try to think a little bigger than that. And think about recent events, like yesterday.

The Democrats, once elected, became the same thing as Republicans.

[donco6]

16. They think they have to, to get (re)elected.

Personally, I think they're wrong.

[Ganja Ninja]

17. Biden is a Lieberman Democrat.

I'm beginning to suspect that most of the Democrats are.

[Clark2008]

18. What's sad is the number of DLCers (or affliated) who are

running in our presidential primary.

Let's count them:

HRC
Edwards
Biden
Richardson

That's half.

Scary, isn't it?

[NotGivingUp]

19. yes, we must provide money so they can stay there and kill and be killed. nt

[BlueIris]

20. SHUT UP, JOE BIDEN. SIT DOWN, YOU CHEAP HACK.

PLEASE. MY GOD.

[spanone]

21. Biden is enamored by the sound of his own voice.

[Neecy]

22. network booking agents dialing Joe up furiously

How much do you want to bet that Biden will be on every Sunday news show spouting this bullshit? His is about the only "Democratic" viewpoint they allow and we all know why...

[Bluebear]

35. You read my mind.

He will be "the Democratic Voice" this Sunday.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Biden should follow his true calling - selling hair restorer.

[Solly Mack]

25. LMAO. I fucking win

And what do I win?

Not a fucking thing but more politically expedient death and destruction

[Jack Rabbit]

27. !!

Hillary Clinton
John Edwards
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Chris Dodd
Bill Richardson
Dennis Kucinich
Mike Gravel

[Bluebear]

36. I like your shopping list. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

39. Actually, I'm not too thrilled with the merchandise.

Really tawdry stuff.

[Bluebear]

40. I hear you.

I have been pawing through it trying to find something that I really, really like.

[Jack Rabbit]

41. Unfortunately, the other market has serious product liability promblems

[spotbird]

29. Fuck him

A plane ticket home supports the troops.

They don't understand that we didn't buy the lies any more from the Republicans than we do the Democrats now.

[treestar]

31. He's right in terms of most people in this country

Maybe not for DU. What would really happen if Congress did what DU wants? Why is everyone so sure there is no risk there? The mass of the public has been thoroughly brainwashed on sacred cow status for the troops.

[TwilightGardener]

32. I agree--I wish we hadn't caved so quickly, and that's my beef with

Dems in Congress--makes us look like a folding card table. But, if public perception is that Dems, and not Chimpy, are denying troops needed money/equipment, we are screwed, now and in '08. And knowing how our media leans, that WILL be the public's perception.

[spotbird]

33. If they vote down the

continuation of the war it will call their lie that the troops would be left starving in Iraq.

Courage.

[magellan]

38. BINGO

"If they vote down the continuation of the war it will call their lie that the troops would be left starving in Iraq."

[treestar]

42. Can't they still do that?

I recall Hillary started a bill to undeclare the war.

And the advantage of that would be not tying it to "supporting the troops" as the right wing media would surely have it.

[truebrit71]

34. Biden is an enabling sack of shit.

n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

37. You couldn't pay me a million dollars to vote for that man. What an asinine thing to say.

We're being ignored. They expect we'll just vote for them anyway. We'll get over it by the '08 election. All will be forgotten by then. Who cares what the VOTERS want...we know best.:grr:

THINK AGAIN DEMS!