Draft is Dodged

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WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday against a bill to reinstate the military draft, a tool that had been used by Democrats to point out the inherent inequality of volunteer service.

The House voted 2-402 against suspending the debate and moving toward passage, meaning that the bill could be debated in perpetuity. The procedural motion is an action that prompts the sponsor of the legislation to pull it out of consideration.

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (search), D-N.Y., introduced the legislation in January 2003 in an effort to highlight what he saw as an ill-prepared and ill-advised Iraq policy. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (search), D-S.C., pushed a similar bill in the Senate.

The legislation in both chambers declares that it is the obligation of every U.S. citizen and resident between the ages of 18 and 26 to perform a two-year period of national service.

GOP leaders said that Rangel and Hollings introduced the bills with the sole intent of scaring people in an election season.

"This campaign is a baseless and malevolent concoction of the Democrat Party, and everyone in this chamber knows it. It has one purpose — to spread fear. To spread fear among an unsuspecting public, to undermine the War on Terror, to undermine our troops, to undermine our cause, and most of all, to undermine our commander in chief in an election year," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

whew! that was close....

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I'm sure the Democratic linebacker from Tennessee will appear at a podium somewhere today and say " We gave them the vote, it wasn't anything they did to win it."

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So, Charlie Rangel ends up voting AGAINST the very Bill he sponsered in the 1st place ? Someday, science may just discover how the Liberal mind functions, but for us, that mystery is trickier to solve than finding the last digit in Pi.

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So, Charlie Rangel ends up voting AGAINST the very Bill he sponsered in the 1st place ? Someday, science may just discover how the Liberal mind functions, but for us, that mystery is trickier to solve than finding the last digit in Pi.

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not all that surprising if you think about it. he's merely following his party's nominee's actions... for it/against it, for it/against it.

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