Walsh featured in MSNBC piece on anti-escalation vote
Republican Rep. Jim Walsh, who almost lost his upstate New York district last November, will vote for the resolution.
We asked Walsh: will any minds in the House be changed over the next three days of speechmaking?
“I think on our side it will change a few,†Walsh said. His hunch was that some Republicans who were at first leaning toward voting for the resolution might vote “no.â€
Some of his GOP colleagues have come up to Walsh to ask him how he’ll vote. “If they’re asking me what I’m doing and why, then they’re looking for a rationale†for voting for the resolution. And perhaps they haven’t yet found it.
Will the outcome of the vote on the resolution – assuming it gets about 280 votes on Friday – change Bush’s mind? “If he is surprised by the number of Republican votes for this (resolution), it might affect his thinking,†Walsh said.
[...] Walsh’s support for the Iraq war was starting to waver, as he felt the heat over his record of voting with Bush over 80% of the time. He ended up voting [...]