Majority Opposes Bush's $190 Billion War Funding Request

Washington Post   |  Jon Cohen, Dan Balz   |   October 1, 2007 06:31 PM


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Most Americans oppose fully funding President Bush's $190 billion request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a sizeable majority supports an expansion of a children's health insurance bill the president has promised to veto, putting Bush and many congressional Republicans on the wrong side of public opinion on upcoming foreign and domestic policy battles.

The new Washington Post-ABC News poll also shows deep dissatisfaction with the president and Congress. Bush's approval rating stands at 33 percent, equal to his career low in Post-ABC polls. Congressional aproval is even lower: Just 29 percent approve of the job the Congress is doing. That is Congress's lowest approval rating in this poll since November 1995, when Republicans controlled both the House and Senate, and represents a 14-point drop since Democrats took control last January.

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- reece5309 I'm a Fan of reece5309 9 fans permalink

There is no public outcry against the war

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:59 PM on 10/01/2007

STFU bitch you're boring, stupid and human scum just like Hunter says.

We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.

Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?

They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character.

They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them.-Hunt­er S. Thompson

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:01 PM on 10/01/2007

Leave it to Hunter Thompson to speak truth to power with no bullshit!. A real American Patriot.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:54 PM on 10/01/2007
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There is no public outcry against the war.
-reece5309
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Then you're not listening.
No surprise there of course.

P.S. Just because you keep repeating something ad nauseum does'nt make it true or real.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:07 PM on 10/01/2007
- reece5309 I'm a Fan of reece5309 9 fans permalink

there was a public outcry against the amnesty bill - there is no public outcry against the war

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:15 PM on 10/01/2007

Exactly there is no outcry at all. What's a few hundred thousand people marching were really just getting some sun. The soldier who returned his medals was really just sending them in for maintenance.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:07 PM on 10/01/2007
- Thalia I'm a Fan of Thalia 162 fans permalink

Ah, but Rush says he's a phony soldier, and Repubs would call that soldier a traitor.

See?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:10 PM on 10/01/2007
- reece5309 I'm a Fan of reece5309 9 fans permalink

you mean john f kerry?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:18 PM on 10/01/2007
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We appreciate your candor...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:12 PM on 10/01/2007

Ive tried to get used to the new first page system but ... I hate it!

I think it takes away the continuity of the thread!

Over to kos ...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:56 PM on 10/01/2007

It discourages internal discussion.
Maybe that's the point.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:58 PM on 10/01/2007
- MI6troll I'm a Fan of MI6troll 25 fans permalink

It has also run off the spammers.

Probably the real reason.

New poster logs on, sees a 200 entry page one clogged by B'Bitch, ghosts and Cap'n and leaves.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:00 PM on 10/01/2007
- reece5309 I'm a Fan of reece5309 9 fans permalink

kos it is - on my way

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:06 PM on 10/01/2007
- MI6troll I'm a Fan of MI6troll 25 fans permalink

You'll last 24 hours, tops.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:09 PM on 10/01/2007

Headline:
Majority Opposes $190 Billion War Funding Request

SubHead:
Passage Guaranteed by Dem Majority.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:55 PM on 10/01/2007
- naschkatze I'm a Fan of naschkatze 89 fans permalink

I don't know how the House breaks down, but in the Senate it seems as if 50% of the Democrats are true Democrats or progressives while the other half are DINOs who vote with the Republicans and help pass Bush's agenda. I'm thinking of the MoveOn resolution and the Kyl/Lieberman amendment.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:23 PM on 10/01/2007
- SeconLine I'm a Fan of SeconLine 67 fans permalink
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Gotta love this:

Dobson & the other Whackos are threatening to split for the GOP and run an Anti-Choice 3rd party candidate if Rudy gets the (R)-Tard nomination!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-news/comments/2007/10/01/66499#postComment

Do it! Vote your conscience!

Do it for America!!!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:53 PM on 10/01/2007
- JaneC I'm a Fan of JaneC 277 fans permalink
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Yep, they want to run Tony Perkins. The fundies don't like St. Rudy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:55 PM on 10/01/2007
- SeconLine I'm a Fan of SeconLine 67 fans permalink
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That sounds about right.

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1074/5408-0008.jpg

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:59 PM on 10/01/2007
- peacekitten I'm a Fan of peacekitten 628 fans permalink
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Norman Bates?

They want to run the actor who was Norman Bates?

How cool is that?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:02 PM on 10/01/2007
- naschkatze I'm a Fan of naschkatze 89 fans permalink

I hope they do. If Obama is the Democratic nominee, the Fundy Republicans and the common Crook Republicans will split the white vote, Obama will take the black vote, and the Democrats will unbelievably win the South. Ya think?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:26 PM on 10/01/2007
- kellygrrrl I'm a Fan of kellygrrrl 641 fans permalink
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"Majority Opposes Bush's $190 Billion War Funding Request"

Gee, ya' think?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:53 PM on 10/01/2007
- WolfLarsen I'm a Fan of WolfLarsen 34 fans permalink

Yeah a majority of Americans oppose the funding but that is not enough for the Democrats. I guess they feel they need 100% approval before they can find the will to stop the war. What courage. Pathetic.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:09 PM on 10/01/2007

kellygrrrl : If ' The Majority " is the 70 % of Americans that want out of Iraq, yeah... -ralph

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:12 PM on 10/01/2007
- MI6troll I'm a Fan of MI6troll 25 fans permalink

I see that the bushbot idiot, Doug, is posting.

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hamilton/miscimages/beware.jpg

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:52 PM on 10/01/2007
- JaneC I'm a Fan of JaneC 277 fans permalink
    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:57 PM on 10/01/2007
- Doug I'm a Fan of Doug 13 fans permalink

I love that. Bushbot!!!! I disagree with half of Bush's policies and tactics, yet I'm a Bushbot.

Not everything is black and white.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:49 PM on 10/01/2007

"Majority Opposes Bush's $190 Billion War Funding Request"
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How painful this must have been for ABC to release!

They're getting as bad as faux lately ...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:51 PM on 10/01/2007
- researcher I'm a Fan of researcher 113 fans permalink

he will get his money and the demos will get one of their bills passed. the alpha dog bush will strike again.

the demos will trade blood for the passage of one of their bills. bush will get blood for oil 190 mil and the demos will trade iraqi and american blood for one of their bills passed.

33% support bush now that is scary. those warmongers will be out there voting in 2008.

take your pick folks with your two party system: blood for bills passed (dems) or blood for wars for profits(repubs).

still love your two party system? guess who told you it is the best system in the world. suckers.

come on voters support a third party in 2008 and send the demos packing. they dont deserve to control the house,senate, and the not so white house. if we cannot have nancy and reid impeached at least send them packing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:50 PM on 10/01/2007

"the alpha dog bush will strike again."

LOFL

The clusterfuck an alpha?

Man ... you got it bad!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:54 PM on 10/01/2007
- elr50 I'm a Fan of elr50 20 fans permalink

And give it back to the Repukes? Are you out of your mind? You think we're in trouble now-remember how it was when we had a Repuke congress and president not so long ago? Just look at the Supreme Court! We will be in trouble for a long time.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:57 PM on 10/01/2007

This is more Bush smoke and mirrors. The congress needs to hold him and his sycophants responisble for all the lies and liars that got us to this place. Rummy, Wolfy, Cheney, Condi, Powell, Addington, Scooter and a host of third-rate Washington creeps, not to mention the Great Man Himself. Liars and criminals all need to be brought before the bar. Not one more dime for this horror! Not one! Do you hear me Nancy? Do you hear me Harry? Not one more dime.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:50 PM on 10/01/2007

Hah, well you might as well triple that figure.

Russians Evacuate Iran.
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4636
Load and load, it's going to be a long cold winter, freezing in the dark and all.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:48 PM on 10/01/2007
- zull2 I'm a Fan of zull2 38 fans permalink
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The fundamental problem with the Bush administration, and with George W. Bush himself, is that he thinks he's the CEO of a corporation, and not an elected representative of the people. Because he thinks he is the CEO, he sees any money coming in as profit, and thus, he thinks he has full rights to spend it any way he chooses.

That money is tax money. It is the property of the people of this country. The majority of the people are the ones who decide what to do with it. If the majority decides that their tax dollars are being spent incorrectly, then the president is not acting as a representative of the people.

For all the Republicans out there, this is why people HATE George W. Bush. Because our tax dollars, which we are required by law to pay, are being used to occupy another nation. This isn't the war on terror, and the administration's claims that by occupying Iraq, that somehow this will stop terrorism, are absurd and insulting to the intelligence of the American people.

The United States does NOT have the financial strength any longer to continue policing the world. When we waste so much of our budget on political wars such as the occupation, when our government reduces the economy to rubble by implementing ridiculous economic policies (such as dropping import tariffs with countries that charge massive tariffs on our exported products), by using "cowboy diplomacy" instead of REAL diplomacy, they have essentially reduced our world power status to a joke.

If you are a Republican, how could you possibly feel proud about this? Do Republicans seriously hate this nation and its people that much? A vote for these aforementioned Republican­/neo-conse­rvative policies should be considered treason. To continue supporting these policies should be considered treasonous. These policies directly harm the people of this nation. A country IS its people. To betray the people, thus this country, is treason.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:46 PM on 10/01/2007

I think the basic BushCo position at this point is: Congress is our bitch. And, for all intents
and purposes, they're right. With Nancy 'impeachment is off the table' Pelosi
at the helm, caving and waffling on issue
after issue, I think our biggest weak spot
nationally is still unfortunately our Congress.
Bush is going to keep shoveling money at
the military-industrial horse---- story
indefinitely, as long as Congress keeps
caving and caving. So, write off your public
accountability, constitutionality, and the rest
of it, until and unless Congress decides to
marshal their resources in an honest and
wholehearted effort to stop the war.
I don't think I'm even going to the polls in 08,
not at this rate, no real point in it....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:45 PM on 10/01/2007
- youngharry I'm a Fan of youngharry 3 fans permalink

If, as Bush says, this is a "Global War" then we need a bigger army. Give Bush the $150 Billion dollars, but attach a provision that he must institute a draft to fight for America if the war is that important.
Then we'll see how long the war lasts.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:44 PM on 10/01/2007

He will veto it and then start bitching and moaning about how the dems are not supporting the troops.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:52 PM on 10/01/2007
- wadenelson1 I'm a Fan of wadenelson1 241 fans permalink
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How American!

Wait until the bill arrives to complain that the meat was undercooked.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:42 PM on 10/01/2007

I think it was Rummy or Wolfie who said this was on the house, that oil would pay for the war and reconstruction. How many billion do you think we should pay before we admit we're screwed. And, Wade, I suppose you think we should leave a tip, too.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:54 PM on 10/01/2007
- cynara I'm a Fan of cynara 14 fans permalink

Damn, I misinterpreted the headline. I thought that "majority opposes Bush's $190 Billion War Funding" refered to a congressional majority. Just as I was thinking "about time", my hopes were dashed yet again when I began reading the article and realized we were talking about the general public. Total dissapointment, since Congress seems to not give a hoot what the public thinks. (8% public support for war with Iran? Lets go!)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:39 PM on 10/01/2007
- Thalia I'm a Fan of Thalia 162 fans permalink

They just approved 150b for it.

Our gov't. is completely broken.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:40 PM on 10/01/2007
- shhhhhhh I'm a Fan of shhhhhhh 14 fans permalink

Our last hope is it has to go through appropriations in the HOUSE. This is our last hopes to see if the Democratic majority in the HOUSE can reverse what is really a balanced, non majority Senate with Cheney having the tie-breaker vote.

Stay tuned folks for we could all be pissed real soon. Or should I say more pissed ??

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:43 PM on 10/01/2007
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