McCain Amendment Passes!

[joemurphy]

Now, is Bush gonna veto it?

[Massacure]

1. McCain Amendment? Explain to the rest of us.

[LittleClarkie]

3. Prisoners of war getting treated by the book

Geneva convention wise. Not quite, but close to that.

[liveoaktx]

8. Link

http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=147024

Bush said he would veto this.

[aquart]

27. Can't wait.

Impotent ass.

[liveoaktx]

2. 90 Aye 9 No

[LittleClarkie]

5. That sounds veto proof

Doesn't it?

[AlCzervik]

7. it is veto proof.

[merwin]

17. I hope he vetos it. That will make him look that much worse when it gets

overridden.

[AlCzervik]

20. true, he hates this ammendment almost as much as he hates McCain.

[BootinUp]

21. Yep. He will get pummeled.

can't wait.

:popcorn:

[NoodleBoy]

9. who voted no? make a list & distribute

[AlCzervik]

11. roll call isn't up yet.

[joemurphy]

15. The No Voters to McCain:

Cornyn and Stevens...the usual Neanderthals.

Is this a major revolt? It's a big slap at Gonzales, Rummy, Cheney and Bush who wouldn't apply the Geneva Convention to Taliban prisoners and Al-Qaeda suspects.

[Straight Shooter]

19. Cornyn, that dipwad.

I heard him on NPR licking Harriet Miers' pump heels. What a suckup.

[texpatriot2004]

22. Yeah, recently he said that they "would not repeal the tax cuts

(for the wealthiest 1%) of 2003 because they had created millions of jobs."

This lying dirty bastard is my Senator along with that crook Hutchison.

[charlyvi]

4. Poor Shrubbie! I almost feel sorry for him.

NAH!!!


:rofl:

[SharonRB]

24. You almost had me there.

[havocmom]

6. High noon at the Oval Corral

Let's see if the mad cowboy blinks.

[SharonRB]

10. I've been watching the vote and

I have a question. Isn't this just an amendment to a larger appropriations bill? If so, doesn't the whole bill have to pass for this to mean anything? Or, is there a line-item veto on the appropriations bill?

[liveoaktx]

16. Look at it from the other end-they need to pass the appropriations bill

and this is the second time McCain has tried to get this prisoner treatment amendment passed. The first time the Senate pitched it. This time it will go through because it's tied to appropriations, which, as Stevens has repeatedly said, has to get passed this week.

Bush does not have line-item veto

[SharonRB]

23. Thanks -- that makes me feel better

I didn't see how they could possibly not pass the on a bipartisan basis and I guess I was right for once. Is there any way it can get pulled before the bill goes for final approval?

[proud patriot]

12. bush does not have the courage to veto anything

:D

[MasonJar]

13. We have to keep a careful eye on this according to McCain;

the amendment could be pulled in the House/Senate finalizing committee.

[Mass]

14. It is going to be dropped in conference.

No need to veto it.

[AlCzervik]

18. link here--no roll call yet though

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051006/ap_on_go_co/congress_detainees;_ylt=Ak715LFfawh.ZauUW7h1qxus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-

[LetsGoMurphys]

25. I heard Michael Savage ripping him on this..

Called him McKennedy ( I guess thats supposed to be an insult). He said this proves he got too messed up in the Hanoi Hotel to be in politics. Then said he should have just sold plumbing supplies in Tuscon.

[Generator]

26. Yeah imagine being tortured and then being anti-torture

the nerve!

[Mnemosyne]

28. Savage is such a dick! n/t

[Ready4Change]

29. Well done. But it's a sad day.

It's a sad day when this nation, of all nations, has to pass an amendment for what seems to be such an obvious thing.

And against administration wishes, to boot.