GOP filibusters Jim Webb's troop-readiness bill

tristano's ghost · July-11th-2007, 02:29 PM

Seven Repubs did defect... but not Dick Lugar, despite his little "rant" last week against the prez. Lieberman, of course, voted to sustain the filibuster.

GOP filibusters troop-readiness bill

Still, 56 votes is getting there... we'll keep peeling votes away from the Party o' Obstruction and Continuing the War.

Scott Dolan · July-11th-2007, 02:37 PM

Lugar made it perfectly clear that day that he was not prepared to vote for any of those bills yet. Which made his overall statement somewhat meaningless, IMO.

jesus marion joseph · July-11th-2007, 04:18 PM

I can't profess to know the details of Webb's bill, but I saw him on CNN the other night, and it seems to me that he is, quite possibly, the most reasoned voice on the state of our military out there at the moment.

Gary Sisco · July-12th-2007, 08:10 AM

They're just going to wear the GIs out for their own partisan reasons. The military is already extended to a point that if it were required to deal with anything else it would not be able to. It can only barely tread water with the wars it has going now.

It's a disgrace, really. It'll take a generation for it to recover (and needless to say a couple of trillion more confiscated wages). The after effects will be worse than after Vietnam. In those days, there was still a living notion of service and obligation in the US, though tattered. This one started without those things and will end with them being measured in subzero terms.