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Call Your Congresspersons: Vote No On Supplemental

By Big Tent Democrat

Jane explains why:

Leadership needs 18 votes out of the 51 Democrats who originally voted against the supplemental in order to pass this bill. Since 35 of the 51 are members of the original Out of Iraq caucus, and several freshmen (including Alan Grayson, Eric Massa and Donna Edwards) ran as strong anti-war candidates, I don't think that challenge will be easily surmounted. In addition, 33 members subsequently signed on to a letter expressing concern after the Senate added the IMF funding -- and 12 of those originally voted "yea" on the supplemental. Add to that the Democrats who will bristle at being forced to sign on to Lieberman's civil liberties nightmare and I think opponents of the war have a very good chance of defeating the supplemental, or forcing conditions on its passage.

Jane has a neat action tool for letting the Congress know how you feel. Use it.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 05, 2009 (boomark / email).