Some things are more important than winning elections, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has apparently concluded. Some things, like being a rubber stamp for Bush, and supporting an escalation of the War on Iraq.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) joined with Bob Corker, Joe Lieberman, and other misguided Republican Senators to vote against a senate debate on Bush’s Iraq War Surge/Escalation. [See how your senators voted.]
Nevermind that the American people do not support an escalation.
"'We are witnessing the spectacle of a White House and Republican senators unwilling even to engage in a debate on a war that claims at least one American life every day and at least $2.5 billion dollars a week,' said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat."
The vote was 49-47 — “11 short of the 60 needed to go ahead with debate.”
Alexander is up for re-election in 2008. As a story in the Washington Post notes, Sen. Alexander will likely face some serious consequences on election day in 2008. The first-term Senator from Tennessee "could draw a formidable opponent in 2008 as his state drifts increasingly Democratic."
Lamar Alexander also supports pay raises for Congress, but Not pay raises for minimum wage workers!
As Tennessee and the nation 'drift increasingly Democratic,' voters will soon repay Republicans like Alexander who place party loyalty above their country by rubber-stamping every deadly delusion that emerges from the madman in the oval office.
In the meantime:
"Next week, the Democratic-led House is expected to move forward with its version of the nonbinding resolutions stuck in the Senate."
"You can run, but you can't hide," Reid said. "We are going to debate Iraq."
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