Do you think Congress got the message during recess?

I spoke to my Congressman, Paul Hodes, in Peterborough on Thursday. He said that he is hoping that pro-war Congresspeople got a strong message from their constituents during the break to bring the war to an end.

What's happening in your districts? Any hope that the tide will turn?

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surely, you jest? ok, I won't call you shirely.

as we're right next door. Leahy spoke strongly about the only way to end the war being total defunding of it. Sanders is also on that page. Peter Welch came out against the 50 billion dollar supplementary. As if Vermont has any real influence. Oh well.

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1662588

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John Cornyn
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he was troubled with the slow pace of al-Maliki's government in fostering political reconciliation but cautioned that U.S. efforts to push too hard could backfire.

"Senator Warner is a great patriot and a student of history, and he's clearly sending a signal to the Iraqis that our patience is not unlimited, and that's correct," said Cornyn, a fellow member of Senate Armed Services Committee. "But I don't think it's in our best interest to put so much pressure on the new Iraqi government that it absolutely collapses."

"We don't want to allow that to happen, because it would make us less safe here at home," he said.

Kay Bailey Hutchison
HUTCHISON: I can't think of anything worse than America cutting-and-running because times are tough. I think it would hurt our troops. We need to support them, and make sure they have the cover they need. We must never cut-and-run. That would shred the credibility of America. The NIE says we are destabilizing the al-Qaeda leadership. The worst thing we could do is appear to leave and give terrorists a victory.

Joe Barton

Some Members of the House of Representatives believe Congress needs to set an artificial timetable for withdrawal of our troops. President Bush vetoed such a proposal, and I recently voted in agreement with the President’s veto. The role of Congress is to provide our troops with funding they need; it is not the role of Congress to usurp our nation’s military commanders who are best able to determine the future military course from the field.
Success in Iraq is critical to our fight against terror. And it’s a fight that affects us all.

welcome to texas.

Our "liberal" Rep. Chris didn't appear to hold any town hall meetings during his break.
Instead he invited us to pay some money to go ride the bumper cars at Glen Echo Park with him this weekend.

I'm sending back his donation envelope with a note that I would rather be invited to the impeachment proceedings than to his stupid bumper car rides.

And for the record, Van Hollen said in late August that he thought impeachment would divert too many resources from other stuff that was more important.

I worked on his first campaign for Congress. I will not work on another campaign of his unless he shapes up.

they want $9 million to build a facility for dry powder storage

will quickly be drowned out by the noise created from the Bombs being dropped into Iran for Shock and Awe v2.