| Topic: |
Religions > Atheism |
| User: |
"Fred Stone" |
| Date: |
06 Dec 2007 03:28:58 PM |
| Object: |
Dems do (again) what Dems do best (again) |
They surrender:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/06/499888.aspx
From NBC's Mike Viqueira
It turns out that there will likely be some more war funding coming from
the Democratic Congress this year after all.
Democrats had been adamant that their pre-Thanksgiving package of $50
billion for the war -- with conditions -- was a take-it-or-leave-it piece
of legislation. No more.
The Administration and GOP campaign to highlight the possibility of mass
Defense Department layoffs should no more money be forthcoming has paid
off politically. Speaker Nancy Pelosi now says that there will likely be
money in an end of the year spending bill targeting the civilian Defense
employees, numbering in the tens of thousands, who would be notified in
coming weeks of a furlough should Congress fail to act before the holiday
break. Democrats were concerned about this potential development, and
they now ready to act to avert it.
Pelosi also said that there might be money for the war in Afghanistan.
Democrats have largely been supportive of the war effort there, as
opposed to Iraq. Yet critics will see this as a shell game, since
earmarking money for Afghanistan will free up money for the
Administration and the Pentagon to send to Iraq.
Pelosi had promised anti-war Democratic members that she would stick by
her guns and not put forward any more legislation this year that would
fund the war in Iraq. This nascent arrangement -- hinted at for days on
the Hill -- would allow her to stick to the letter of that pledge.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
If you go into Sudan today
Your heart will fill with dread
If you go into Sudan today
You might just lose your head
Because on the sands
With blood on their hands
Every nut that ever was
Will be there because
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