Miller flip flops on prior vote against war funding

Dear Congressman Miller,

We were so impressed with your vote in the House on May 14 to oppose the $100 billion supplemental war funding bill to continue our endless military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course you and the sixty others who voted against it knew it would easily pass anyway, but it was an important principled stand.

Since then, the Senate passed their version of the bill, tacking on an additional 100 billion in the form of a loan to the IMF (to bail out European banks!), and now the House Republicans are saying they won't vote for the revised House/Senate version of the bill! This means the bill could actually fail!! And the wars could end!!

Unless of course the "House leadership" can convince at least forty of those Democrats who voted no on the first version of the war funding bill to flip their vote and vote yes on the revised bill.

And sadly we watched as you were one of the first of those Democrats to step forward and announce to reporters that you would vote yes on the revised bill. I guess this shouldn't surprise us, since you are actually Chair of the "Congressional Democratic Policy Committee".

But this certainly makes your original vote on May 14 look like an empty gesture, a safe vote for the purpose of political posturing.

NOTE TO READERS: If you don't like American policy of endless war, and George Miller's support for it, call him and tell him!

George Miller's contact form: http://georgemiller.house.gov/contactus/
Phone: 202-225-2095