On Tuesday, January 30th, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will chair a full Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, “Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War.” Earlier this month, Feingold, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, became the first Senator to call on Congress to use its power of the purse to redeploy our troops safely from Iraq so that we can refocus on the global terrorist networks that threaten our national security. Feingold proposed this action after President George Bush announced plans to escalate our military involvement in Iraq despite the objections of members of both parties, military and foreign policy experts, and the American people.
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That’s my man!!
new ad that will be airing soon…
VoteVets.org: Join the Troops, Stop the Escalation
H/T C&L
This is something that I hope will get folks to see that things in “Oz” are not as they seem. Thanks for sharing this with the Pond!
Who hijacked daily kos?
I can’t remember who I heard say this, so with that caveat, he said that if the Congress cuts off funding for military action in Iraq, the Pentagon & Intelligence Black Budgets are so huge, the Administration could move money around and continue the war. Hell, they might get a loan from Haliburton. I’m just floating this something that might be nothing.
Also, Bush will likely issue the Mother of All Signing Statements and the “Law” will become “Slaw,” shredded and flavored to the President’s taste. I head Conyers on NPR talking (very slowly) about investigating and taking action against the signing statements. I hope he does.
I have watched and listened and waited for BooMan to come to his senses. His endorsement of Sen. Brownback is the final straw. I have waited for him to explain himself, but he refuses. I am shocked and saddened at BooMan’s cowardly actions.
Sen. Brownback is wrong for America. He is wrong on Education. (He’s pro-Literacy.) He is wrong on defense. (He’s against refuses to endorse random nuclear attacks to project our power internationally.) He is wrong on Transubstantiation. (That is indeed the Blood of Christ in the Communion Cup.) He is wrong on Geography.(He says the Earth is a flat square, when in fact it is a disk sitting on the back of four gigantic elephants that glide through space on back of an even more hugemongous turtle.) He is wrong on Cosmology. (He claims the world was created 4,668 years, 7 months, 5 days, 3 minutes and 17 seconds ago, +– 5 minutes, when it was clearly created 4,866 years, 7 months, 5 days, 3 minutes and 17 seconds ago, +– 2 minutes.) He is wrong on his favorite color. (It is beige, not off-white.) He is wrong on the Middle East. (The rise of Israel is the breaking of the Sixth Seal, not the Fifth Seal.) He is wrong on the Economy. (Ethanol is not the answer to all our economic problems. Spinning wheat into gold is.) He is wrong on Terrorism. (The problem is not the Heathen Muslims intent of converting the world with a blood-stained scimitar. Terrorism is the initial foray of Isengard against Middle Earth.) Sen. Brownback is just plain wrong.
If Booman does not come to his senses and endorse the only candidate who truly sits on the right hand of the Lord, Former Senator Richard (The Lion-Hearted) Santorum, than this is my last entry in this God-forsaken blog. If Booman does not come to his senses and change his endorsement, then Goodbye Cruel World. You have heard the last of Teach313.