Joe Biden Says He Won't Cut off War Funding

By Jeralyn, Section Elections 2008
Posted on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 12:15:31 PM EST
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See Joe Biden on Meet the Press this morning. Crooks and Liars has the video in which Biden says he won't vote to cut off war funding.

When asked by host Tim Russert if he would vote to cut off funding for Iraq if President Bush refuses to accept a withdrawal date, Biden moves directly to the “cutting off funding means you don’t support the troops” mentality pulled straight from the pages of the RNC playbook. Instead of speaking the truth, that it means appropriating funds to begin a safe and smart withdrawal from the country, not abandoning out troops, Biden instead says he won’t vote to cut off funding and chooses to chastise Democrats who support it.

It’s infuriating to say the least to see Biden falling for the White House framing– not one single Democrat in Congress wants to leave our soldiers stranded in the middle of the desert with no food, water, ammo or protection–and cutting off Bush’s funding would not do that–and Senator Biden should know better.

Update: See below for some of the reasons I've never favored Joe Biden.

From a post I wrote in 2005:

Joe Biden also brought us the Rave Act (more here)and has been a supporter of increased rights for law enforcement and wiretapping. He won't get our support. Here's his voting record on issues of import:

Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping. (Oct 2001)
Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
Rated 60% by the ACLU, indicating a mixed civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
Rated 36% by NARAL, indicating a mixed voting record on abortion. (Dec 2003)

Biden also brought us this bill:

Biden's new bill would make it a federal felony to try and trick certain types of devices into playing your music or running your computer program. Breaking this law--even if it's to share music by your own garage band--could land you in prison for up to five years.

Here's Joe Biden on the military draft.

And, in his home state of Delaware, in 2005, one of every four inmates that died in prison died of AIDS. What did he do to help? Nothing, as far as I could tell at the time.

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Give Biden credit (5.00 / 1) (#3)
by cmpnwtr on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 01:08:47 PM EST

Biden did openly challenge Petraeus this morning, more than any other Dem has dared to do saying Petraeus is "dead flat wrong."

: Give Biden Credit? He is the Senator from MBNA (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by jerry on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 01:21:52 PM EST

"Give Biden Credit" reminds us that Biden was a very strong backer of the bankruptcy bill. He is the Senator from MBNA after all.

: Yes ... (none / 0) (#4)
by robrecht on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 01:14:51 PM EST

He's very good at taking Bush to task for having no Iraq strategery. I would love to see a debate on Iraq strategery between Biden and Bush.
Is he slimeyer than most politicians when it comes to shameful self-promotion. That's so hard to tell because that need's to be measured on a logarithmic scale.
And like Jeralyn says he's not good on many other issues.

Biden Supports the Troops??? (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by john horse on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 05:57:02 AM EST

Can someone please explain how continuing to send in American soldiers to die or be injured in an unjustified war is supporting our troops?

Even worse than that ... (none / 0) (#1)
by robrecht on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 12:20:03 PM EST

He tries to claim personal political success for pushing the Cougar mine resistant vehicles as part of the supplemental. As if there is any reason that should be funded through a supplemental as opposed to the normal military budget. Shameful.

Jeralyn, good to see you (none / 0) (#2)
by oculus on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 12:54:03 PM EST

speaking up on defunding. But, what will BTD blog about? Paris Hilton?

Let's (none / 0) (#6)
by Edger on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 06:17:46 PM EST

Defund Joe Biden...

Ms. TL (none / 0) (#8)
by Wile ECoyote on Mon Sep 10, 2007 at 07:16:07 PM EST

you may want to list now the reasons why you don't like all the candidates. That way you won't have to post the OBTW, here is why I don't favor him or her. It could save time in the future.