Not known for heavy lifting, thougtful reporting.....or, dare we say it? that niggling detail? FACTS!
The more Americans learn about the FACTS surrounding military action against SYRIA, the more they OPPOSE it! Maybe the GOP should have tested public opinion before marching to the orders of Saudi Prince Bandar or is it Larry Summers?
Military action will NOT resolve anything, or haven't we figured that out yet?
GOP pans senators’ hesitation on Syria
Photo by: The Associated Press Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., listens at right as the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, during the committee's hearing to consider the authorization for use of military force in Syria. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Thursday, September 5, 2013
By: O’Ryan Johnson
Both of the Bay State’s newly elected senators are balking on decisions on the use of military force in Syria, saying they want more information before they’ll make up their minds — and drawing derision from conservatives.
Edward J. Markey and Elizabeth Warren issued separate statements yesterday which both said they were “concerned about the unintended consequences” of military action to deter the regime of Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war. Markey also voted “present” on a resolution in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to sharply limit President Obama’s military options.
The state GOP, in a mocking statement titled “Profiles in Courage,” said, “when it came time to lead today, 10 Senators voted yes, 7 Senators voted no, and Ed Markey timidly raised his hand and said ‘here.’”
“It seems Ed Markey has decided that instead of continuing to flip-flop on matters of national security, he simply won’t vote,” said Massachusetts Republican Party director Rob Cunningham.
“Massachusetts voters already have a reason to regret choosing Markey to fill John Kerry’s shoes.”
“Markey is an anti-war liberal from Massachusetts,” said Victor David Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Oh? Here's Wikipedia on HOOVER.
Here's some of their funding:
The Hoover Institution is funded by multiple sources. It receives nearly half of its funding from private gifts, including corporate charitable foundations, and the other half from its endowment.[27]
Past corporate donors have included:
- Archer Daniels Midland Foundation
- ARCO Foundation
- Boeing-McDonnell Foundation
- Chrysler Corporation Fund
- Dean Witter Foundation
- Exxon Educational Foundation [28][unreliable source?]
- Ford Motor Company Fund
- General Motors Foundation
- JFPI Corporation
- J.P. Morgan Charitable Trust
- Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
- Procter & Gamble Fund
- Rockwell International Corporation Trust
- Transamerica
“He’s consistently voted that way in the House, now he can’t do it because he feels it would weaken someone in his party, yet he doesn’t want to vote yes, so he splits the difference.”Markey, the state’s junior senator by just a few months, elected last spring, was the only “present” vote.He said in a statement after the vote, “This is an important decision that has the potential to draw us into the Syrian civil war. .... When I have had a chance to further analyze all of the information, I will then make a fully-informed vote of yes or no on the final resolution next week on the floor of the Senate.”
Warren, the state’s senior senator elected just last fall, is not a Foreign Relations Committee member and hasn’t voted, but said, “I remain concerned about the unintended consequences — both immediate and over time — of using military force in the midst of a civil war in an already volatile region of the world. I will be attending another classified briefing in Washington on Friday that will give me a chance to examine more carefully the potential costs and benefits of U.S. intervention.”
Hanson said lawmakers have had more than a year to consider the consequences of military action.“Time doesn’t seem to be the problem,” he said. “It’s a tough choice. You don’t want to vote ‘present.’”
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