I knew that voting against body armor was going to come back to haunt Republicans. In 2003, Rick Santorum voted to kill an amendment by Mary Landrieu. A Republican killing a Democrat's amendment isn't news. Except that the amendment was $1 billion for National Guard body armor. Now VoteVets.org is running a campaign ad targeted at Santorum.
Don't trust the Santorum campaign touting their polling numbers. (In fact, don't trust internal polling stories.) A recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows Santorum trailing by 18 points with likely voters. He's going hard to the right in the general election. If the race was that close, Santorum would be steering towards the middle. Bye Bye Rick.
FactCheck.org Fact Checks The Ad - "FALSE CLAIMS"
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Good call, "anonymous."
ReplyDeleteVote vets is a PAC formed specifically to attack those who support Bush's policies.
In short, Vote vets would be running ads against Republicans who support Bush's policies regardless of the bogus body armor issue.
If only Michael Hussey could check facts 5% as well as Annenberg.
Bryan, I have a friend who served in Iraq who states that National Guard were using Vietnam era armor. Also, this has already been fact-checked by Media Matters.
ReplyDeleteBryan, you can go to the Senate website and see that Republicans voted to table Landrieu Amdt. No. 452.
Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Allard (R-CO), Yea
Allen (R-VA), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Nay
Bayh (D-IN), Nay
Bennett (R-UT), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
Bond (R-MO), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Nay
Breaux (D-LA), Nay
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bunning (R-KY), Yea
Burns (R-MT), Yea
Byrd (D-WV), Nay
Campbell (R-CO), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Nay
Chafee (R-RI), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Coleman (R-MN), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Corzine (D-NJ), Nay
Craig (R-ID), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Daschle (D-SD), Nay
Dayton (D-MN), Nay
DeWine (R-OH), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dole (R-NC), Yea
Domenici (R-NM), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Edwards (D-NC), Nay
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Fitzgerald (R-IL), Yea
Frist (R-TN), Yea
Graham (D-FL), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagel (R-NE), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Hollings (D-SC), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Jeffords (I-VT), Nay
Johnson (D-SD), Nay
Kennedy (D-MA), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Not Voting
Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Nay
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Nay
Lieberman (D-CT), Nay
Lincoln (D-AR), Nay
Lott (R-MS), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Nay
Miller (D-GA), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Nickles (R-OK), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Nay
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay
Santorum (R-PA), Yea
Sarbanes (D-MD), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Sununu (R-NH), Yea
Talent (R-MO), Yea
Thomas (R-WY), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (R-VA), Yea
Wyden
"Bryan, I have a friend who served in Iraq who states that National Guard were using Vietnam era armor."
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Way to go, champ.
Also, this has already been fact-checked by Media Matters.
"Media Matters" is hopelessly partisan, unlike the Annenberg Center which actually does accurate fact-checking most of the time. Plus they don't touch the issue of the supposedly vintage armor, from what I can see.
That leaves you relying on anecdotal evidence that you are unable to verify.
That type of thing makes puts "Pushing Rope" in the category of the world's worst blogs.
It's simply pathetic to claim, as Media Matters does, that since the appropriation could have been used for body armor that therefore votes against the Landrieu Amendment were votes against providing body armor.
You're nothing more than a partisan dupe, Michael.
I've been researching this because I'm a Marine mom, and it looks like almost everyone ended up voting for something much better than the original down vote:
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That's what went into law.
Who are these "VoteVets", they certainly don't have our troops' best interest at heart. Wikipedia lists them as a strong liberal progressive group for Democrat Congressmen