Another GOP Defection

Free Market News Network
January 30, 2007
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Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) said Friday he would support the symbolic resolution opposing President Bush’s plan to escalate in Iraq, according to The Associated Press. Brownback, a candidate for president in 2008, was once a strong supporter of the president’s foreign policy.

Brownback’s defection makes him the seventh GOP senator to agree to rebuke the president’s escalation plan, according to The AP’s numbers. The Kansas senator says he supports the measure favored by Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) that expresses disagreement with the president’s plan and urges a less central role for the American military in Iraq.

Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, predicted Sunday that no more than 20 senators would support the president’s plan for escalation when the Senate debates the symbolic resolution this week, according to The New York Times. The Times places the number of GOP senators expressing doubt about the president’s plan at nine. – JS

but will it translate into votes when the Senate has a binding proposal on the table, one that allows money to be used only for getting the troops home?

Hey, who wants to follow a narcisssistic AWOL cheerleader into Armageddon?

Even a few republicon cronies are capable of getting a clue.

for a non-binding resolution that has no teeth. They need to put their money where their mouths are and do something to reign in Darth Cheney and his slimeball front man.

he will vote in favor of escalation.

watch for a news conference shortly. He hates being out of the limelight for too long.

He wants to be able to pull the troops out and blame the whole mess on the new Democratic majority preventing him from presidentin'. Darth Chenney, on the other hand, just wants more blood for his dark altar. One day soon, they are going to undermedicate the chimp and he's going to break down crying at the podium over what mean Unca Dick is making him do.