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madison Donating Member (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-27-07 01:37 PM
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3. When I wrote "trapped by the system and rules," I was ...
When I wrote "trapped by the system and rules," I was referring to the fact that it takes a two-thirds majority to override a presidential veto. In the senate, that would be 67 votes, and, so, would require 18 Republicans to vote with the Democrats. That was never going to happen. (It is also against senate rules to just keep submitting the same legislation over and over again once a bill is defeated.)

But, with the aid of the media whores, the Democrats who voted to "deny funds for the troops" would be -- and have been -- accused of hating the troops or of not supporting the troops, and that accusation would be used to defeat them at the polls.

You can scoff, but one cannot be a legislator if one cannot get elected. It is all well and good to sit on the sidelines advocating for an end to our involvement in Iraq, but it is another thing to garner the votes to require an end.

Certainly the Nuremberg Trail judges did not agree with you that a life sentence is worse than a death sentence. They hanged the worst Nazi criminals and gave life sentences to the somewhat less evil ones.
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