Victory! You Stopped Pelosi's Surrender Bill!

Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who helped us win!

by Rod D. Martin
May 25, 2007

Over the past several weeks, tens of thousands of you have helped us fax, call and write Congress to stop the Pelosi-Murtha Preemptive Surrender Bill.

Well, yesterday you won.  And so did America.

In the face of all your opposition, Democrats blinked, selling out their MoveOn buddies.  Senate and House leaders caved to reality, pulled Pelosi's "Preemptive Surrender Bill", and instead passed a bill that funds the Iraq War through the end of the fiscal year and does not include a withdrawal timetable.

Famed columnist Bob Novak put it this way: "Democrats felt they could not afford the risk of letting a war in progress run out of money. The Democrats' problem is that this demonstrates conclusively that they are all talk on the Iraq War -- a fact that their base will quickly realize."

The votes were 280-142 in the House, and 80-14 in the Senate.  Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama voted against funding our troops in the field, even while most of their peers vote…