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

No Funding! Yes Impeachment!

Dear Representative Miller,

I wish the Democrats sent no military budget at all. That would have called the Administration's bluff and would have forced them to orderly withdraw the troops, since they would have had enough funds to do just that. Why can't the Democrats be more forceful? What are they afraid of? And why don't they want to impeach Bush, who lied to start this illegitimate war?
Respectfully,
Alberto Ramon
El Sobrante

Why can't Dems announce NOW, while there is still plenty of money for troops, that they will not be offering ANY funding bill in Sept?

Please watch this short Kucinich video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDtWCJF7xgY

Kucinich says Congress is not obligated to offer ANY Iraq Supplemental funding bill at all when Bush comes asking for more money in September. (No need to round up votes; no veto.) Congress can put Bush and the Petagon on notice NOW, while there is still PLENTY of money in the pipeline, that there will be NO supplemental war funding bill offered in September, period.

WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THIS STRATEGY, CONGRESSMAN MILLER??

By putting them on notice NOW, Congress would not be accused of putting the troops in harms way without funding. This would give the Bush administration plenty of warning and time to start preparing and implementing a phased troop withdrawal plan. If Bush fails to take these steps, Congress can begin Impeachment against him for recklessly endangering our country and our troops.

Yes this is showdown brinkmanship, but it puts Congress on the high ground and Bush on the defensive, and it renews the public's respect and trust in Congress. And it's the only way we'll get these maniacs to end the Iraq occupation. The incremental legislation strategy is just playing into their game! You can't use parlamentary rules and procedures with people who have shown they have no respect for the law or the Constitution.

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