Today, the House of Representatives began debate on a non-binding resolution on the Iraq War troop escalation. Below is the text of that resolution.
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Disapproving of the decision of the President announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That —
(1) Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect the members of the United States Armed Forces who are serving or who have served bravely and honorably in Iraq; and
(2) Congress disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.
Each member of the House has been given five minutes to speak on this resolution. The Democrats have made this resolution as straightforward and as easy to grasp as possible. What does a non-binding resolution do, you may ask? It sends a clear message to the White House that Congress (via the American people) reject Bush’s policy of sending more troops to referee a civil war in Iraq.
NPR’s Morning Edition has more on this great debate.
Feb 13, 2007 by Peter Slutsky in
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that Republican U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood of Georgia has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 65 years old. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and staff.
Feb 13, 2007 at 2:48 PM | No Comments »
The former Governor of Massachusetts has officially announced that he will seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States of America. Romney was, for the most part a failed Governor, having little accomplishments to point to. He did not seek a second term as Governor, because, well, he would have lost to this guy. Oh yeah, he’s also a liberal Democrat. UPDATE: Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Feb 13, 2007 at 10:52 AM | No Comments »
Say what you will about Ralph Nader, but I would like him to go away. Run for Senate, run for Dog Catcher, run for the School Board for all I care…just PLEASE stay out of the 2008 election!
No one cares if you don’t like Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton hasn’t won anything yet, so please Ralph, stay away!
Go phone bank for your favorite candidates:
Democratic candidates Nader likes include former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, he said.
Gravel/Kucinich 2008? Only time will tell. Stay tuned.
Feb 6, 2007 by Peter Slutsky in
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Good morning, America…
It has been a little while since I last blogged here at DoubleSpeak. I have been busy moving, job hunting and re-acclimating to my life in our nation’s beautiful capitol city. However, I plan to increase the blogging in the coming weeks and months and we as a team hope to add some new faces to the blog team in the lead up to 2008.
There is an article from Cox Newspapers this morning on the marital status of the 2008 presidential candidates. When all is said and done, it seems that the party of family values (the Grand Ol’ Party) doesn’t really value their families too much.
The GOP has long touted itself as the party of family values, but its developing 2008 presidential field has recorded four divorces and one annulment, compared to three divorces among the Democrats.
Yeah, Democrats get divorced too, but you just have to love people like Rudy Giuliani (divorced twice) and Newt Gingrich (also twice divorced) who tout values and can’t seem to keep track of their own.
Will the hypocrisy ever end?
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