Vermont keeps giving us good progressives (or Socialists). I do hope Rep Welch can see his way to vote No on this.

Why would a congressman who has promised to never vote for war funding without a timetable now decide it was okay to vote for this bill? Is warmaking any different with a (D) after its name? Not to those upon whom war is made, I can assure you of that.

Keep your promise, Congressman.

What leadership ambitions does he have? If he wants a House Leadership position, well Newt made his name opposing the first President Bush for not being conservative enough.
When the first Bush failed to win reelection the parties Base made him king.
Going along to get along just makes you a place holder waiting in line.
You must lead the mob in times of change to be the leader. Or is 2 wars a banking crisis unemployment officially around 10%, unofficially much higher, not enough of a Crisis for Pete to realize the mobs have already formed in Cyberspace.
The fake corporate sponsored mob of Tea Baggers will not save moderate Blue Dog Dems Scylla and Charybdis fight the monster or swim toward the whirl pool reach the bottom and then kick up and head for the surface.
For trying to walk the middle path between monsters means that you have to fight them both, at the same time.
The middle path between two dangers is not the cautious, prudent path in a time of Crisis its the path of indecision.
There is Right and Wrong Pete make a choice nobody said it would be easy.
Think of others who will be helped the most by your actions one way or another.
Will your actions today make the world a better place. Triumph, Fail who cares sometimes Somebody just needs to make a stand!
Are you a Leader are you SomeBody?

I always liked Sheila Jackson Lee. For a Texan, she was a refreshing breath of sanity. I assume she feels that black voters want her to help Obama “succeed” (where success is defined as making the DC insiders happy). I would have hoped she could be a voice to ask Obama to redefine success in the terms of the people who actually voted for him, and not in the terms of the people who really want him to fail to do what he was elected to do.

I assume he wants to trade in his old car under the Cash for Clunkers program.
Which I’m sure was going to pass anyway it sounds like a vote getter before the election.

Why vote against the war supplemental? Listen to Roger Morris run down the Village power structure maniplulation.

I called twice this week and each time reported each call on the FDL Whip tool.
The person who answered just said he was
still ‘considering it’ [the bill]. Constituent service sucks at his DC and Burlington office. I was polite and stressed my opinion that he should vote “No” (was told that message would be passed to the congressman). The second time I phoned (Burlington office, Friday afternoon), I told the person that I’d read that Welch was leaning “yes” (I’d got this from Jane Hamsher’s updates here). Didn’t matter, no commitment from his office. In fact, the persons told me each time, “he’s been busy” and “I’ve not had a chance to talk to him about it.” I’m gonna keep trying, but it seems all I get are obfuscatory answers.

He’s scared good! I hope Rahm is promising him a lot for his soul. Voting against the war now would get him a leadership position in the future,as opposed to cash today.
Today we see who the politicians think can reward or punish them more big business or us!
The GOP made a similar mistake last election they dismissed our opposition to the war, the economy, the lack of national healthcare.
They thought their would be no consequences for their actions.

It was your comments that tipped us to the el-problemo.

Thanks!