Steny Hoyer: Blackmail Still In Play For The Supplemental
Give me my pork, or Soldiers will be left twisting in the cool breeze of a Democrat majority
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Our dear friend Steny Hoyer is no stranger to mucking things up in Congress. He has a passion for delaying and withholding and obstructing and otherwise putting off anything meaningful that might come out of Congress until he gets something for himself out of it.
The esteemed Mr. Hoyer is ALSO no stranger to the Democrat strategy of talking out of both sides of one's mouth. Hoyer says via the AP piece:
"I think policy needs to be changed," but as long as troops are deployed "those troops need to be supported."
Hmm.
Why, then, did Hoyer tell Roy Blunt on the House floor yesterday that "other things" were being discussed before the much-needed supplemental for our Soldiers would get any closer to being done?
"There are obviously needs in addition to Iraq that are being discussed, and I would tell my friend that those discussions are ongoing," said House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) said. "A decision on what may or may not be added in addition to the supplemental that may be necessary for Iraq – there may be other things – that decision has not been made at this point in time."
Mr. Hoyer, at this point in time Soldiers are still in Iraq and are still in need of supplies and ammunition and all the other things "those troops need to be supported."
As Blunt's release indicates:
Republicans are committed to giving our troops in the field the resources, equipment and supplies they need to complete their mission and return home successful. Now is the time for Democrats to permanently shelve their failed ‘slow-bleed’ strategy, pass a clean troop supplemental and stop using the needs of our troops as blackmail for special interest projects
Can we please let go of Katrina, or at least detach it from the war in Iraq? Can we PLEASE focus single-mindedly on the ONE Iraq supplemental and put all the blackmail earmarks in something ELSE?
How about you guys on the Left hold up FISA to get your lard, keep us at risk here at home, and leave the deployed men and women OUT of your little schoolyard shenanigans?
m'kay?