Democrats voting yes on the rule are the ones who are casting their vote to give Bush a blank check

[seafan]

Important! Watch the individual votes on this *rule*.

Read this last graph from Sirota; it is the whole ball of wax:


May 24, 2007

I'll do an update on the Iraq vote over at Working Assets later today when/if it happens. If you are watching C-SPAN, make sure to carefully watch the vote on the rule. All the Republicans will likely vote no - they want an open debate because they somehow think reiterating to America their steadfast support for the Iraq War is good politics. You are going to see a lot of Democrats stand up and berate the war, and say they really are voting against funding the war because they are voting against the predetermined Republican amendment. Yet, most of these Democrats will likely vote for the rule, which is the real vote for war. Democrats voting yes on the rule are the ones who are casting their vote to give President Bush a blank check.

Remember, all we need is 20 Democrats to vote no on the rule to send the bill down and start over. If that doesn't happen, then the question becomes which U.S. Senator is going to answer the "where's the beef?" question by putting their antiwar rhetoric into action by pulling an old-school, read-the-phonebook filibuster? Sens. Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Bernie Sanders and Russ Feingold seem to be girding for a big fight, while the Associated Press reports both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama "declined" to take a position. Will we see a real filibuster, or will we see capitulation in the upper chamber? Stay tuned.

And isnt' it interesting that as we speak, Bush is trying to distract us from this vote by jabbering in a hastily called *news conference?*

[AndyA]

1. I'm listening to the House on C-Span.

I don't think this thing is going to pass. All the Dems I've heard so far say they are voting NO on the supplemental. Unless they are planning to say they're voting no and then cover it up by voting yes for the rule, this thing could very well fail.

I hope this is what happens! Those of you with Dems in the House, call them, call them, call them!!!

[seafan]

3. Are you able to jot down the votes in real time and post here? I've got a distraction here that I'm

trying to clear up. We've got to document how these people vote.


Hopefully, I can get back in time for the vote.

[peacebird]

2. PLEASE keep us cube-ratsinformed on the rule vote and what's going down

thanks!

[seafan]

4. Here is a convenient list of all Reps to use as a checkoff list.

http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml

[seafan]

5. Final vote list here

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 418
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

H RES 438 YEA-AND-NAY 24-May-2007 1:23 PM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Providing for the consideration of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2206, making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007


(click the link for the entire list)

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2007/roll418.xml


With comments from David Sirota here

[Zodiak]

6. 24

Just 24 out of over 200 Democrats do not want to give Bush his blank check.

So 90% of the House Democrats are not on the side of the People who elected them?

Great.

Big tent my ass.