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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:05 PM Original message |
Obama: Dems lack votes for timetable |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'll skip past the denunciations and just get to the point: Obama's right. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 07:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
13. "...making the US Army fight its way out of Iraq with no funding or support." |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:00 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. Actually using money for say, new aircraft, to pay for a withdrawal, is a crime. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:07 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. it isn't illegal to spend huge amounts of money appropriated... |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:44 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. Where do you get the idea the military will ask for that against Bush's wishes? |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 08:58 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. and the votes aren't there for passing more funding either, if the Democrats were united/nt |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 10:37 PM Response to Reply #19 |
36. Stop making sense |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 09:58 PM Response to Reply #36 |
46. you are right, but I wonder if people actually believe it? |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. Glover's story is not quite accurate |
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tired_old_fireman (323 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. Putting a ceiling on the number of deployed troops |
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saracat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. Do we have a list of the 15 holdouts? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Republicans who are waivering |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 10:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
34. If the number 15 is right, referring to the number lacking for a cloture vote |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. Then let's not put any funding bills on the calendar for a vote. n/t |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. So they are just going to roll over and let little george have his war? |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
8. So get the fucking votes. |
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independentpiney (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. Fund it for six weeks, then make Petraeus report back |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
10. Utter nonsense |
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ColonelTom (415 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 08:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Bingo. "We don't have the votes" is a LIE! |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. Not true |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 07:50 AM Response to Reply #32 |
39. Stop parroting the propaganda |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 10:19 AM Response to Reply #39 |
42. That;s not what you said in the post I replied to |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 06:39 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Again, you're wrong |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 07:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
44. DING DING DING! PSPS, you're our grand prize winner! |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. BULLSHIT! |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. Perhaps SENATOR Obama knows a little more about counting votes in the Senate than you do |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. perhaps |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. Perhaps that's why he is a US Senator and one of the leading candidates and Kucinich |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
12. this is a smoke screen.... |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 07:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Precisely |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 04:55 AM Response to Reply #12 |
38. exactly |
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MasonJar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
16. Well, keep the vote open until you get them. That's what the Pugs do. |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:59 PM Response to Reply #16 |
33. My last attempt in this thread to convince... |
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stlsaxman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
17. If Obama gave a f*#k he'd rally for those votes HIMSELF and he'd be a shoe-in as the Dem nomination |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
18. Vote on it anyway |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. sounds similar to We do not have time to impeach. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. I remember hearing this from Obama on the previous vote. He's like a broken record. (nt) |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:22 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Because it was true then, and |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:27 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Obama is trying to make a self-fulfilling statement. He's working to demoralize anti-war folks. (nt) |
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Inuca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:52 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. I really doubt that his statement... |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
27. "Dems lack ethics to follow their oaths." |
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BenDavid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
35. Here again is where Obama should |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-13-07 10:40 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Maybe you can explain to me how funding gets passed |
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TankLV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
40. Bullshit - as usual from him...many others have listed why this is bullcrap... |
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Tyler Durden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
41. IF WE HAVE 41 VOTES, THEN WE HAVE THE VOTES. |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
45. Let Bush veto it |
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