Oh, yeah, it's official: they funded the troops without restrictions.
$70 billion. I guess we'll just have to get the rest next year.
By Moe Lane Posted in About Flipping Time | Congress | Great Netroot Betrayal | Kabuki Dance — Comments (7) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Inevitable, if a little annoying that the Democrats are being so tedious about doing as they're told:
House Approves $70 Billion More for War
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress approved $70 billion Wednesday for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a bitter finish for majority Democrats who tried to force a change in President Bush's war policy.
The House's 272-142 vote also sent the president a $555 billion catchall spending bill that combines the war money with money for 14 Cabinet departments.
Bush and his Senate GOP allies forced the Iraq money upon anti-war Democrats as the price for permitting the year-end budget deal to pass and be signed. But other Democrats were eager to avoid being seen as not supporting troops who are in harm's way—and avoid weeks of bashing by Bush for failing to provide that money.
Via Ace.
Read on.
I suppose that I should be grateful that the Democrats aren't going to cancel Christmas for all those defense employees after all, but really: can't they just grow up about it? I knew, you knew, the American public knew, heck, anybody with a lick of sense knew that this was how things were going to end. Why did we have to waste so much time waiting for the Democrats to finish their kabuki dance?
That's a rhetorical question, of course: we all know why. You'll notice that I don't bother wishing that they grow up. Frankly, at this point I don't think that particular community would embrace reality if it were carrying a six-pack of beer...
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What is the bill number and where is the roll call, please? I want to torment my Rep to death. Thanks.
Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
They want to be traiterous ala Vietnam but the country won't let them.
The days of a Jane Fonda visiting the enemy or a Democrat congress cutting funding to end a war are gone. It is a new day baby.
I personally want to thank new media as I always do. I truly believe that if not for the internet and FOX news coming along strong in the last 10 years it would be the same as 1974.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
and the rest the next year, and the rest the next year, and the rest the next year, and the nex.........................
It only took half the pork of last years budget.
Good for them
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