Gephardt backs Bush position

[jbfam4]

Gephardt backs Bush position
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/15/sprj.nilaw.bush.congress.iraq/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) --President Bush cajoled GOP senators this week in a meeting on his Iraq spending request, showing what one senator said was the most passion the president has exhibited since just after the September 11 terror attacks.


Two Republican senators who asked not to be named said the president's comments were so harshly worded that they alienated some of those he was trying to win over.

"The president was very forceful and condescending," one senator said. "This is old-style politics, and it made me mad."

"They were very upset," said the other senator. On the question of grants versus loans, this senator said Bush told the group, "I'm not going to debate it," as senators started asking questions.

[madrchsod]

1. gephardt is a

dumb ass and bush is a spoiled little mommies boy.

[jbfam4]

2. left out the part about Gephardt

Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, said he supports Bush's entire $87 billion supplemental request, which includes the $20 billion, calling it "the only responsible course of action."

However, a spokeswoman in his office said that while Gephardt will vote for the bill in its current form -- which makes all the money a grant -- he would prefer that part of it be a loan and would vote for an amendment to that effect if one is offered in the House.


More interesting is the two unidentified senators reaction since they are in the same party as Dubya.

[StlMo]

7. Unfortunately, not committing resources to Iraq

will only increase the suffering Bush has inflicted on the Iraqi people.

The key for the Congress will be to fight the war profiteering by Republican corporations.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

3. Harsh criticism of Bush from Gep

Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Missouri, said he supports Bush's entire $87 billion supplemental request, which includes the $20 billion, calling it "the only responsible course of action."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/15/sprj.nilaw.bush.congress.iraq/index.html

:puke:

[StlMo]

8. Check A Miserable Failure.com - Gephardt HAS criticized Bush harshly

[ixion]

4. way to support the neocons, gephardt

you spineless waste of space. :argh:

[StlMo]

9. In reality, Gephardt has fought a long campaign against the NeoCons.

:dem:

[Classical_Liberal]

10. Citation of him fighting the neocons

? With actual actions take I might ad.

[StlMo]

12. Gephardt has a long history of fighting the NeoCons.

Gephardt has a long history of fighting the NeoCons.



Gephardt led the fight against the critically flawed NAFTA.
NeoConservatives delighted in the lack of worker rights and the absence of environmental protections. Even though Clinton, Dean, Kerry and Lieberman caved to the right wing agenda, Gephardt stood firmly opposed to the so-called "free trade" attack on America.

Gephardt led the fight against permanent normalized trade with China.
America could have bargained for safe labor conditions and protection against conservation catastrophes, but instead centrists and NeoConservatives used the opportunity to strike a blow against jobs and lives. Dick Gephardt valiantly opposed their plot, but the right wing interlopers prevailed. If only more Congressmen had lived up to Gephardt's example - the world would be a much better place.

Gephardt led the fight that banned discrimination because of gender, race, ethnicity, orientation, age, and religion. Amazingly, NeoConservatives want to drag America back to Medieval social restrictions. Gephardt led the campaign that kept sexual orientation from being an exception in America's effort against discrimination. Gephardt and his allies ended the ban on gay and lesbian Americans serving in the armed forces. NeoCons knew that Americans were becoming more tolerant of different sexual orientations so the NeoCons attempted to institutionalize hate in the form of legalized discrimination. Yet, the NeoCons failed and will continue fail to impose their bigotry on America - because of the brave opposition of leaders like Dick Gephardt.

Gephardt led the fight against the NeoConservative plan to rape Alaska for a miniscule amount of oil. Thanks to leaders like Gephardt, progressives saved that unique piece of America.

Gephardt led the opposition that kept Bush from putting large doses of the poison arsenic into drinking water.

Gephardt led the successful protection of the Department of Education by NeoConservatives that fear an educated populace. Gephardt struck a further blow with the expansion of access to federal student loans to all students instead of a select few - allowing more Americans to build a better life.

Gephardt leads the fight to solve America's horrific HealthCare crisis. It is a high priority for NeoConservatives to protect the gluttony of gigantic pharmacological corporations. NeoCons bribed just enough members of Congress to block Universal HealthCare in the past. A Gephardt Administration would realize what NeoConservatives dread - all Americans receiving medical attention.

Gephardt leads the fight to save Social Security while NeoConservatives attempt to destroy it by transferring its funds to the Robber Barons that lead the NeoCons.

Gephardt leads the fight to save Medicare while NeoConservatives try to wipeout Medicare and all other programs that help the American people (because their masters want the money - and NeoCons just hate people who aren't rich).

Gephardt leads the fight to discover the truth about September 11. The NeoCons are scrambling to hide Bush's failure to take any measures against a terrorist attack that Bush knew was coming. Gephardt had the guts to ask what Bush knew and when he knew it. The truth was blocked in the Senate, but not in the House of Representatives - thanks to Gephardt.

Gephardt leads the fight to establish an International Minimum Wage - a living wage for all people everywhere. Gephardt leads the fight to abolish sweatshops and child labor. It is hard to imagine a concept that strikes more fear into the dark hearts of NeoConservatives than the global agenda of Dick Gephardt.

Contrary to popular opinion, Dick Gephardt did not give Bush what Bush wanted in Iraq. When one goes past the right wing mainstream Media spin, one discovers that Bush entered office (thanks to five idiotic and immoral Supreme Court judges) with the authority to invade Iraq - and to order the U.S. military to remove Saddam Hussein. The constitution also specifies that the authority to conduct more than limited action in Iraq or elsewhere requires an official war declaration. The alleged war resolution signed by George Bush jr. had only symbolic conditional approval for Iraq and the conditions where things NeoCons despise - International support and a requirement for a real threat. It also blocked NeoCon plans to invade Syria, Iran, Lebanon, etc. Gephardt forced Bush to sign a document that Bush did not want.

Dick Gephardt is a progress populist and the NeoCons correctly fear that Gephardt will lead the people against the evil NeoCon agenda.

[ikojo]

14. Too bad Gephardt couldn't lead DEMOCRATS while he was majority

leader..

Too bad it was under GEPHARDT'S leadership that the Dems lost the House of Representatives to the "Gingrich revolution."

As always when offered a choice between Repub lite (DLC'ers like Gephardt and Lieberman) and a real Republican, people choose the real thing all the time.

[StlMo]

16. Pull your head out of your ass.

Gephardt broke away from the DLC a long time ago.
Gephardt left the DLC when it started to become the Republican appeasing organization it is today.

Despite a gigantic money disadvantage and a NeoConservative owned mainstream media, Gephardt led Democrats to victory in the House of Representatives - a fact not reflected in the "official" results only because of Republican election theft.

[pansypoo53219]

5. this will lose him

how many votes? half of his support you guess?

[dfong63]

6. gep seemed to be on a roll for awhile, but now this...

[teryang]

11. He's is full of it

...he's back on my shitlist

[KG]

13. but, but, gep. wore such a nice tie to his rose garden photo op.

you know, the one where he and holy joe couldn't wait to give the chimp the go-ahead to start an illeagal and immoral invasion.

[ikojo]

15. One of the few times Gephardt shows up to vote

on something and it's to support an illegitimate regime!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[StlMo]

17. You are wrong.

See post 7.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

18. Step right up, folks! He walks, he talks, he crawls on his belly...

...like a snake! He's the amazing Gephardt, the Congressman with the backbone that disappears on command! Now you see it, now you don't!!

Some days you see it, some days you don't!

Step right up, folks! He walks, he talks, he crawls on his belly like a snake! He's the amazing Gephardt, the Congressman with the backbone that disappears on command! Now you see it, now you don't!!

What's it going to be today, folks! Step lively and look close...it could happen in an instant!

Step right up, folks! He walks, he talks, he crawls on his belly like a snake! He's the amazing Gephardt, the Congressman with the backbone that disappears on command! Now you see it, now you don't!!

Right this way, folks!