Durbin voting YES

[Neecy]

Won't use the troops 'as a pawn'.

Unbelievable.

[DUyellow]

1. Unbelievable.

[Bluebear]

3. Believable.

Unfortunately.

[uppityperson]

2. Support the troops. Incredible. So many are saying this. Shame on them.

How DARE they use these people for politics? Shame on them.

[Neecy]

4. yep. He and Murray used GOP talking points...

And stabbed the Dems who are voting no in the back.

[uppityperson]

20. I just sent Murray an email she will not be happy to read.

[LSK]

5. what does he know that we dont???

[madrchsod]

18. i`m thinking the same thing

i have a few ideas about this vote and i may change my opinion about this matter in the future.i`m still really pissed off but i`ve lived long enough to realize somethings are not what they seem...i guess we`ll have to wait for a few more months

[TwilightGardener]

6. It's CHIMPY who's using them as pawns--they need to stop buying into the rhetoric.

[WinkyDink]

7. Is this on C-Span 2?

[LSK]

9. yes, Levin up now

[Neecy]

10. yes

Now Levin voting YES

[Bluebear]

12. Levin: "We must give the troops all the support they need"

Fuck you, Levin.

[Cameron27]

8. That hurts so much.

I love Senator Durbin, but his decision is terrible.

[DUyellow]

11. Carl Levin voting yes

he said he must support the troops

[The Iron Maiden]

13. Concerned about the benchmarks...

but still voting for the bill...

Thanks for perpetuating the myth that the soldiers will be left stranded without equipment if the war is de-funded, Carl... Thanks so very much...

[TwilightGardener]

22. Welcome to DU!

[illinoisprogressive]

14. Durbin is one of the most liberal. but, if he votes yes I think Obama will go that way.

They are really close and they vote alike.
Durbin is my senator and I know he is following his conscience. Levin is voting yes as well

[Neecy]

16. the vote is in a half an hour

(gee, they sure dedicated a lot of time to this important issue, eh?)

I didn't hear Obama or Hillary announced as speakers.

[TwilightGardener]

17. Who else will speak?

[Neecy]

21. lemme think...

Dodd...I think Landrieu...one more that I don't remember.

[TwilightGardener]

24. Thanks.

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. I just shot him off an email he's not going to be very happy to read!

I am so fucking mad right now!:grr:

[laylah]

26. I have sent him

many an e-mail only to get some unrelated response weeks/months later. I am so disappointed in him. He is my Senator and I have always (since I came back in '02) trusted him. No more...no more at all.

[laylah]

19. Say it ain't so...

not my Senator :cry: OMG...is there not ANYONE we can trust anymore? (rhetorical question, obviously)

[madrchsod]

i know how you feel-- i might have to move to wisconsin.....

"The latest version of the Iraq Supplemental Appropriations Bill is scheduled to come to a vote this week and I will not support it. It is a toothless measure that gives a blank check to the President and does nothing to end our involvement in Iraq".....

ya it`s an email from Russ Feingold explaining why he`s not voting for it.... nothing from dick today and now i know why

[laylah]

36. ...

:cry: That is all I can muster anymore.

[Solly Mack]

23. Uh, the troops are ALREADY being used as pawns

[City Lights]

25. Wow.

That's hard to swallow. I love Durbin, but am so disappointed and disgusted right now. x(

[saged52]

30. me too -

exactly what you said.

[Breeze54]

27. Levin too... " Can not, in good conscience, will not vote against funding"

:banghead:

[ProSense]

28. "Pawn"?

This is exactly the kind of rhetoric some Democrats used when they characterized Kerry-Feingold as precipitous.

This has to stop?

[DUyellow]

29. Mary Landrieu voting YES also

sell out

[TwilightGardener]

31. Well, THAT'S a big surprise...snerk.

[Bluebear]

33. Quelle surprise. nt

[Neecy]

34. she at least has an excuse

If she voted no she'd be cooked in Louisiana...the package contains significant Katrina funding.

And at least she didn't spend her time whining about troops being without equipment and repeating other GOP lies.

[TwilightGardener]

35. OK, will give her a pass.

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[Neecy]

37. McConnell bitching about the bill

Doesn't like the domestic spending in a military appropriation bill.

Can't have any crumbs going to the proles! Heavens no! The military has to suck up every fucking dime.

[TwilightGardener]

38. He's going to get his way--he needs to shut his turtle-head the fuck up.