Religions > Atheism > We Know What You Are, Congressman, We're Just Haggling Over The Price
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"Fred Stone" |
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09 Dec 2007 05:04:08 AM |
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We Know What You Are, Congressman, We're Just Haggling Over The Price |
http://decision08.net/2007/12/08/want-my-support-for-the-war-youll-have-
to-pay-for-it/
Want My Support For The War? You’ll Have To Pay For It
No wonder Democrats who are against the war are so upset with the current
Democratic leadership…after repeatedly vowing to end the war, then
repeatedly vowing not to fund the war without a date certain for
withdrawal, the Democrats in the House and Senate are poised to pass a
war funding bill with no timetables for withdrawal - for the price of $11
billion in pork:
House Democratic leaders could complete work as soon as Monday on a
half-trillion-dollar spending package that will include billions of
dollars for the war effort in Iraq without the timelines for the
withdrawal of combat forces that President Bush has refused to accept,
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) said yesterday.
In a complicated deal over the war funds, Democrats will include
about $11 billion more in domestic spending than Bush has requested,
emergency drought relief for the Southeast and legislation to address the
subprime mortgage crisis, Hoyer told a meeting of the Washington Post
editorial board.
If the bargain were to become law, it would be the third time since
Democrats took control of Congress that they would have failed to force
Bush to change course in Iraq and continued to fund a war that they have
repeatedly vowed to end. But it would also be the clearest instance yet
of the president bowing to a Democratic demand for more money for
domestic priorities, an increase that he had promised to reject.
“The way you pass appropriations bills is you get agreement among all
the relevant players, among which the president with his veto pen is a
very relevant player,” Hoyer said. “Everybody knows he has no intention
of signing anything without money for Iraq, unfettered, without
constraints. I think that’s ultimately going to be the result.”
The Democrats plan to take a three-step approach to completing the
deal. House leaders are considering an initial allotment of about $30
billion, ostensibly for the war in Afghanistan and some other military
needs, which all sides in the deal recognize could be shifted to fund the
Iraq war.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) then would allow
Republicans to increase that amount to avert a filibuster of the spending
bill in the Senate. The goal of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) is $70 billion for the war, more than the $50 billion short-term
funding that House Democrats initially proposed but far less than the
$196 billion Bush has sought.
The Senate-passed bill would then go to the House for final approval.
Don’t get me wrong - I’d be happy to get war funding squared away, and
I’m not naive to the ways of Washington horse-trading. Still, when the
subject is our men and women in uniform fighting overseas, one might be
excused for wishing that support for the war was more than a bargaining
chip for more domestic giveaways.
At least we know the Democrats are cheap dates now…
UPDATE 2:29 p.m.: Apparently, I’m not the only one who feels this way:
the director of the Office of Management and Budget is warning the
president will veto the bill if it is a vehicle for pork.
The White House budget director warned on Saturday that President
Bush was prepared to veto a $500 billion catchall spending bill that
Congressional Democrats are assembling to pay for government operations
and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The warning from Jim Nussle, the director of the Office of Management
and Budget, amounted to a pre-emptive strike in a battle over federal
spending that is growing increasingly intense.
Mr. Bush has already vetoed one spending measure, and twice this week
he used his presidential platform — once in the Rose Garden and once at a
news conference — to criticize lawmakers for failing to send him
appropriations bills.
Democrats said Friday that they were working on a package to resolve
their longstanding impasse with Mr. Bush by providing him with unfettered
money for the war in exchange for more domestic spending.
Mr. Nussle met with Congressional leaders this week in an effort to
resolve the impasse. But on Saturday, reacting to news accounts about the
plan, he called it fiscally irresponsible.
Though the package is not yet complete and the administration has not
seen it, Mr. Nussle sent an e-mail statement to reporters accusing
lawmakers of “trying to leverage troop funding for more pork-barrel
spending.”
“If presented a bill like the one described in today’s press reports,
the president would veto it,” the statement said.
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Fred Stone
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