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Weasels, Part Whatever!
Congressional Democrats plan three-stage charade to pass Iraq war funds
In order to once again approve hundreds of billions of dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while posturing as opponents of Bushs war, the Democratic leadership in Congress has crafted an elaborate legislative charade that is set to begin unfolding this week.
The leaderships scheme involves splitting contradictory measures contained within the massive spending bill and putting them to separate votes in an attempt to placate the divergent wings of an increasingly fragmented party.
The Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi of California, has promised to have a war funding bill on Bushs desk before the end of this month. The House bill is to authorize $162.5 billion in war spending nearly $100 billion to cover war costs for the current fiscal year, which goes through the end of September, plus tens of billions more to pay for the fighting into the summer of 2009, more than five months after the next president takes office.
Ok, let’s face it: War is expensive. And I don’t just mean monetarily. I have an idea! How ’bout all those whining about funding our military give up THEIR salaries, perks, etc? I can pretty much bet not a ONE of them actually needs the money the taxpayers are dishing out annually for THEIR stipend!
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat of Nevada) said on Monday that a war funding bill would be brought before the Senate on Wednesday. Reid, however, was less sanguine about the prospects of the legislation being passed before the Congress begins its Memorial Day break.
We are not going to be panicked into completing this, Reid said in remarks delivered on the Senate floor. We know there is enough money to fund the troops for a considerable period after the Memorial Day recess, he continued. Well do our best to get that done, but were not going to be pushed into doing something we dont think is appropriate.
Uh, like WINNING maybe?
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