I go to watch a little league game and come back to find that the House Dems have sold out their base and funded more mayhem for our troops in Iraq. I could rant about it, but I’ve known this was coming for a while. Some people see it as a total betrayal. I don’t. Not really. I see it as a decision to not to let get things get really ugly…which is what would happen right now because we have not succeeded to splintering the Republican caucus. Whether it is ending the war or impeaching Bush and Cheney, we first must splinter the GOP caucus. They held firm this time. A lot of people think we’ll see the same story play out in September. I don’t. I really think the GOP pulled out their last hurrah on this bill. They’ll rue this day for years to come.
The vote was 280-142, with eighty-six Democrats voting in favor and 140 voting against. Two Republicans voted against. The ‘Yes’ votes were very predictable. For Philly readers, Patrick Murphy, Chaka Fattah, and Bob Brady voted against. Allyson Schwartz and Joe Sestak voted for.
Update [2007-5-24 21:40:30 by BooMan]: Senate caves, too. The count was 80-14. Enzi, Coburn, and Burr voted against it, presumably because it had extraneous spending in it.
NAYs —14. Boxer (D-CA), Burr (R-NC), Clinton (D-NY), Coburn (R-OK), Dodd (D-CT), Enzi (R-WY), Feingold (D-WI), Kennedy (D-MA), Kerry (D-MA), Leahy (D-VT), Obama (D-IL), Sanders (I-VT), Whitehouse (D-RI), Wyden (D-OR).
Not Voting – 6. Brownback (R-KS), Coleman (R-MN), Hatch (R-UT), Johnson (D-SD), Schumer (D-NY), Thomas (R-WY)
