why did the democrats even bother trying to challenge bush on money for troops?

Question

they knew he would veto! i do not like bush, but in this case, i actually agreed with his reasoning!!! the troops need all the financial help they can get these days! if the democrats hope to make any progress on iraq issue, they will have to wait until the elections, and hope they get elected so they can pull troops out! there seems to be nothing! they can do until bush is out! agreed? if not, what can the democrats do?

Answer 1

It's just posturing. They are not REALLY against the war, the democrats were calling for war even before Bush came to office and the result would have been the same. Don't listen to these two-faced clowns.

Answer 2

It is all part of the political game. The people sent them to Congress to do the impossible with Bush and they did their best for the people. Unfortunately while Congress represents the people Bush represents Bush and the corporate interests.

Also they knew that the people would get madder at Bush which will bode well for the Democrats in the election next year. The name of everyone voting in Bush's favor on this and other things is being recorded. It is those particular individuals that can be expected to be targets for the Democrats. If they don't blow it as Kerry did last time, the Democrats should do well. They could even pull off a landslide like 1964 when Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater by a landslide and ushered more Democrats into seats in both chambers of Congress.

Answer 3

The voters who voted the Democrats into the majority expect them to do their best to bring the war in Iraq to a close. The deadlines were reasonable. The voters do not expect the Democrats to just give Bush the money he asks for without at least trying to rein him in.

There are two problems, however. The Democrats don’t have enough votes to override Bush’s vetoes. There are also divisions within the Democrats as to how to handle war funding. Some Democrats want to defund the war immediately. Others want to give Bush more latitude in pursuing the war.

Answer 4

Democrats are claiming credit with the aid of fact they're conscious, as you for sure are actually not, that the only reason Bush is even speaking approximately chickening out any troops is as a results of the fact he's familiar with that if he does not a minimum of talk approximately it, the Dems could get the votes they could desire to truly end the war. yet interior the long-term, the shaggy dog tale would be on the Dems. Bush will pull out approximately 5000 Marines in the previous the top of the 365 days, yet next summer season, while he says he will start up the withdrawal of the 30,000, he will pull yet another 'progression is being made so we could desire to maintain them there longer' stunt like the only he's pulling now. Bush, listening to his commanders on the floor? Bush has had a revolving door on the two the final's workplace and the ambassador's. he's placed numerous people into each activity until eventually he gets people who will persist with orders and say what he needs them to assert. Does anybody somewhat have faith that Bush did no longer examine with Petraus what HE needed to work out interior the content fabric of those talks while he flew to Iraq final weekend? don't be deceived, people. Petraus is telling Congress precisely what Bush informed him to assert, a similar way Colin Powell informed the U.N. what Bush needed him to assert even even with the shown fact that HE KNEW IT became into incorrect on the TIME. And whilst he's speaking troop withdrawal next summer season, it somewhat is with the circumstance that issues have better. Any bets on whether that genuinely happens? i do no longer think of there is any decrease to what this administration will do to lie to the yank people.

Answer 5

The more funding you give this idiot the more he is bolstered to think that his war is justified
You mean, why is Congress doing what the Constitution requires them to do? Or do you mean, how dare Congress assert that it is actually an equal branch of government?

Congress has sole power to allocate federal funding. That's their Constitutional obligation. It's not something the President can do under the Constitution. He's not a monarch, despite what he thinks.

So, the idea that Congress is betraying American because they are doing what the Constitution explicitly makes their sole province is irrational. And the thought that they simply have to roll over and do whatever the President wants is a perverse distortion of what the Founders intended when they created separate branches of government.

Answer 6

They pushed The Surrender Bill because they thought that it would make Bush look like he was declining financial support for the troops (as if!). This bill has billions in corrupt pork, and surrender dates, tied to financial support of the troops. The Dems wanted to hold Bush hostage to these, but he's going to veto and get money from emergency measures for the troops anyway.
In the end the Dems look like the surrender monkeys that they really are, totally against the military and completely devoid of common sense with regard to National Security, for abandoning Iraq will leave its resources to Al Qaeda which plans to slam us with an attack to the tune of several million Americans dead next time.
This Surrender Bill, filled with pork, is basically an Al Qaeda aid package and a preplanned Iraqi Holocaust, which will mean many, many, many, many more US deaths in the short and long run than fulfililng our obligations.

Answer 7

Because they were elected to do a job; End the War! I have submitted e-mails to Congress telling the Dems to stand firm and not back down. They are doing the will of the people, NOT the will of the Democrat party; OH! Wait! That's very nearly the same thing, isn't it?

Answer 8

It was a political stunt to make Bush look bad. They wanted him to veto the bill so they could use that to say he is not supporting the troops. Now they must find a way to fund the troops that Bush will sign or it will look like they are not supporting the troops.

Answer 9

Personally, I think they were given , by orders, enough Repulican votes to pass it. That way King Bush could veto it. Then rehash a new bill Then the Rebuplicans that voted yes on last bill with the Democrats will have a bill they can pass as Repulicans. This way the Democratics look totally ineffective.

Answer 10

This stunt the Democrats are pulling with a time line is going to come back to bite them in the axx. If we pull out it will be at the sacrifice of America's integrity and respect. The nonsectarian government will be massacred as infidels along with solidifying America as the great Satan and betrayer that is the ultimate enemy of all Muslims. If Democrats want that going into office the they are whack. They won't even be able to have time to push the National Socialist Party agenda because they will be fighting terrorist from within and without.