Senate MINORITY Leader McConnell to Filibuster Dem Iraq Vote!!

[Roland99]

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Top_GOP_senator_will_filibuster_any_0111.html

"At a news conference, McConnell accused Democrats of secretly favoring a plan to cut off funding for the troops - an allegation that Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. denied," AP reports.

"The fundamental decision to stay on offence and to finish the job, I think is correct, and we believe the president is heading in the right direction and tend to support him," Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell said before Bush's speech last night.

McConnell also talked to some right-leaning bloggers earlier this morning to earn their support for his potential filibuster, telling them on a conference call with other journalists that he expects Independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman to also join in with the Republicans.

"Senate Minority Leader McConnell held a call with a few bloggers and journalists this morning," according to the Power Line blog. "He supports the president's plan for a surge, which he views as 'courageous and correct.'"

Contact that warmongerer's office:


202-224-2541



EDIT: Also, note Sen. McConnell's IGNORANCE and HYPOCRISY here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3050154&mesg_id=3050154

[Ioo]

1. He can try, but as many Republicans that hate this war... I am sure the 60 to close

the debate is there....

[meegbear]

2. Is that a "nuclear option" I smell?

MMMMMM, nuclear.

[bobbolink]

24. Ohhhh, heavens to Murgatroid, NO! We're all about bipartisanship, donchaknow

GAK

[Neecy]

3. Of course, LIEberman joins right in...

What a disgrace these warmongers are...the shame of a nation.

[peacetalksforall]

20. It looks like Joe is always going to go with R's if Israel is involved.

He might go with Dems on a dam issue or something purely domestic and non-Israel related. (And there is no need of anyone accusing me of being an anti-Semite. I'm not. I'm pro-humanity.)

Leiberman Dem-Repub: How ethical does a person have to be to not spill the secrets? He meets and discusses secrets with the D's than meets with the R's. AIPAC has a winner with Joe and they get to him through the R's?

[Waya]

Is the Nookular Option out of the question?

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. No, it's not out of the question and the Gang of 14 doesn't exist in the 110th Congress.

:)

[Strawman]

22. Do it! The day is near when that idea comes back to bite them in the ass

[Patsy Stone]

4. What.Ever.

Loser.

[eleny]

5. Let them

He can help hand us the oval office in '08.

[The Stranger]

6. How in the ____ did they concede the meme that DOING THE PEOPLE'S WILL is "CUTTING OFF TROOPS"?

How in the fuck did that framing of that issue get so lost?

Congress has a duty to cut off funding to lost, torturous, uconstitutional, murderous, criminal wars. How in the fuck did that get spun as "cutting off the troops"?

Wake them up, please.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. He doesn't have enough votes to filibuster.

He would need 60 votes and that ain't gonna happen. Dream on Mitch.

[trogdor]

16. Uh, that's 40 votes, not 60.

So what's he gonna do, have a bunch of freepers call in death threats to any GOP'er thinking about voting for cloture?

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Good! As the hours go by, he'll look more like a psycho! nt

[Perky]

10. I am not sure he has the votes ( I count 9 republican voicing concern)

We need ten Republicans

Coleman
Brownback
Hagel
Collins
Snowe
Smith
Voinovich

Specter
Lugar

Maybe Alexander he is worried about Harold Ford in 2008.

[Beaverhausen]

14. are those all definite "NOs" for funding the surge?

If so, cool!

[LSK]

11. ummmm, funding would have to be approved

So he can filibuster all he wants, he would be preventing funds from being passed.

:rofl:

[Roland99]

12. Updated OP with link to a thread I created the other day showing McConnell's lack of reality!!

[marmar]

13. What a lying prick. They are not cutting funding to troops already in Iraq.

Is there a Republican out there who can say anything that's true? Save for maybe Chuck Hagel, I don't think so.

[underpants]

WOW the paranoia didn't take long did it? Now we have "secret plans"

:scared:

[Irishonly]

15. Maybe

we should send him pacifiers to help him with his whining. Hypocrite

[MzNov]

17. Would that be SECRET plans, like bush's SECRET plan to invade Iran???

[raysr]

18. The Dems should have let the Republics

"nuke" the fillibuster for what good it did them to keep it alive.

[jgraz]

19. Memo to McConnell: You Lost

Get Over It.

[Nite Owl]

21. Wrong move for them

It's definitely a shovel meet hole act for them to try to filibuster this when the public is so against escalation. Reid says he has the votes but it would be a lose/lose for the GOP.

[LSK]

23. he doesnt have the votes

Luger,
Voinovich,
Coleman,
Brownback,
G Smith,
Hagel,
Collins,
Sununu,
Specter,
Snow


Franken discussing now.

[Strawman]

25. Are those 10 votes SOLID for cloture?

Cuz we'll need at least 10 considering Joementum.

[Roland99]

26. Would be interesting if fellow KY Sen., Bunning, didn't climb aboard the filibuster trainu

Bunning has already expressed skepticism of the plan to escalate.

[BayCityProgressive]

27. UP OR DOWN VOTE ASSHOLE!

I called his office and told the girl to tell the dear senator to stop putting the interests of Halliburton over the interests of the country and end the war in Iraq! She wasnt too impressed.

[Roland99]

28. I had called the other day (see link in the OP). McConnell is disconnected from reality.

I tried calling again today but hung up after 5 min.

[me b zola]

29. I wonder if we can dig up any McConnell quotes

I wonder if we can dig up any McConnell quotes :cry: crying for an up or down vote when the pukes were in the majority?

[Roland99]

30. This one's close >>>>>>>>>>>>

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/10/31/filibuster/index.html

At a press conference this morning, Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell said that he and his colleagues would guarantee that Samuel Alito gets a fair hearing and an up-or-down vote, "as has always been the case on the Supreme Court nominees."

[me b zola]

31. That was about all my search would come up with...

...quotes regarding Judicial nominees, which I think the media would give him a pass for if he said that he meant only judicial nominations.

I'm hoping to find a broader statement that even in context would reveal his hypocrisy.

[Roland99]

33. I'll keep looking. There *has* to be something better.

[Supersedeas]

32. TEND to support him -- wtf -- melliemouth kind of hogwash is that