Thursday, September 20, 2007

Why Do the Repubs Hate the Troops?

43 Senate Republicans and Joe Lieberman voted against Senate Amendment 2909, an amendment brought by Jim Webb (D-Va.), who has a son serving in Iraq. The amendment falls four votes short of the sixty needed to avoid a filibuster. The amendment would have given troops the same amount of time at home as they serve in deployments in Iraq.

Why do Repubs hate the troops? Why do they continue to enable the president?

These Repubs (and Joe) hate our troops:

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)


Highlighted senators are from my neck of the woods -- my two senators and those in neighboring states.

The cable news channels basically ignored this vote, but MSNBC was covering the vote today to condemn MoveOn for their Petraeus ad.

posted at 12:32:00 PM by fdtate

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