Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Cochran, Wicker vote to help Morsi

Senators Cochran and Wicker voted to send F-16's to Egypt. You know, the Egypt that is banning Youtube and calling Jews "pigs" and "apes". Senator Rand Paul introduced an amendment “To prohibit the sale, lease, transfer, retransfer, or delivery of F-16 aircraft, M1 tanks, or certain other defense articles or services to the Government of Egypt”. The amendment failed in the Senate recently by a vote of 79-19. Here are the votes on whether to table the amendment:

YEAs —79
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Flake (R-AZ)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Hirono (D-HI)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Nelson (D-FL)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Toomey (R-PA)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs —19
Boozman (R-AR)
Coats (R-IN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Fischer (R-NE)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Lee (R-UT)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

The F16 still looks cool, but it's a jet from the 70s. Pretty sure we've given the Israelis plenty of toys capable of picking them out of the sky (especially the stripped down versions we're sending). We need to sell off as much of our old stuff as we can before it becomes totally obsolete.

Anonymous said...

Of course 6:29 will have no heartburn when Morsi uses the jets to repress Egyptians because we need to sell off the old stuff before it becomes totally obsolete.

bill said...

That's why we sold Egypt the F-16's? Because we're marking them down? Who's in charge of this, Jerry Lake?

Anonymous said...

Not sure why anyone would be surprised that Cochran and Wicker would vote along with the rest of the political establishment. After all, they both voted for the NDAA which allows the President to ignore the Constitution and your and my family members into secret custody with no due process. No difference between a Dem or a Repub.

Anonymous said...

That's why we sold Egypt the F-16's? Because we're marking them down? Who's in charge of this, Jerry Lake?

Apparently no adults are in charge.

Anonymous said...

What could possibly go wrong?

Anonymous said...

We are NOT selling them the F-16, we are GIVING them to Egypt

Anonymous said...

When they act up, we cut off spare parts and they have no airforce (see Iranian F14s). This is in line with the amount of military aid we've always given them. We do not care who is in power, only that they are "our guy." Stick and carrot. Nothing to see here.

Anonymous said...



THANK YOU 10:59!!! We GAVE the bastards the aircraft. An f-16 is no match for a F-18 or f-22 (when the Oxygen is working).... BUT they can be used to drop mark 32's (cluster bombs) on troops or civilians. I heard Nunnly voted for it as well, this is bullshit.

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU 10:59!!! We GAVE the bastards the aircraft. An f-16 is no match for a F-18 or f-22 (when the Oxygen is working).... BUT they can be used to drop mark 32's (cluster bombs) on troops or civilians. I heard Nunnly voted for it as well, this is bullshit.

Anonymous said...

1:30

How many jihadis have been created by supporting "our bastard[s]"?

While you have a good point on this particular issue of limiting externalities, I say that there's a lot to see in this arena. But Americans are generally too self-interested to discuss the full ramifications.

Pugnacious said...

Wicker and Cochran joined the OTHER Israeli-Firsters in voting for the transfer of weapons of war to Egypt.

Rand, like his father, supports an even-handed policy of not arming any of the belligerents in the Middle East.

Anonymous said...

According to the UN no nation can sell a complete weapons system. We basically sold an obsolete air vehicle without a computer system, weapons delivery system, air radar system, microwave traffic controller, Egypt has to come up with a computer to manage the plane, Then it has to integrate 15 year old missiles from the Russians to an obsolete radar tracking system. So they are buying a rocket with wings. I really have no problem selling off some of the garbage that is sitting in the desert. The Israelis have had this f16 system since 1981. Egypt is 31 years behind the learning curve. Plus Israel has f35s and plans on purchasing more. No need to worry about Israel's air superiority. They will dominate all in an air battle..

PS look up the X-44 manta, consider that a drone of the future.

Pugnacious said...

Looking behind the curtain, you'll see why the Israel-Firsters in Congress want to "give" those F16s to the Egyptian military. Just another case of Israel carrying out the US proxy war against China for control of Africa's(Richard Adkerson's Freeport MacMoran) petroleum and mineral wealth.

The Egyptian military has just carried out the flooding of the tunnel network into Gaza that is used to ferry food and supplies denied them by Israel's land and sea starvation blockade.

Anonymous said...

LOL at JERRY LAKE comment. Love those commercials.



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