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The Cut and Run Crowd
WALL STREET JOURNAL ^
| October 23, 2003
| Editorial
Posted on 10/23/2003 5:17:54 AM PDT by OESY
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:50:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Who do our Congresspersons think they're fooling? As they ponder a pork-laden energy bill and a multi-trillion-dollar Medicare prescription drug benefit, some have chosen President Bush's Iraqi reconstruction request as the place to make a stand for fiscal rectitude.
The issue is whether to exploit Iraq's future oil revenues by giving some of the aid not as a grant, as the White House insists, but as a loan. The Senate voted last week to make $10 billion of its $18.4 billion reconstruction package a loan. Though the House voted all the money as a grant, that schizoid chamber passed a non-binding motion Tuesday instructing conferees to adopt the Senate position.
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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: appropriations; biden; brownback; cantwell; chambliss; collins; cutandrun; democrats; edwards; ensign; graham; inouye; kerry; miller; murkowski; nighthorsecampbell; rebuildingiraq; rinos; snowe
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posted on
10/23/2003 5:17:55 AM PDT
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OESY
To: OESY
bump for later read
Prairie
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posted on
10/23/2003 5:23:15 AM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(We will not deny, ignore or pass our problems along to other Presidents. ---GWBush)
To: OESY
and a multi-trillion-dollar Medicare prescription drug benefit, Huh? That's $ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. There isn't that much money in the net worth of the entire solar system.
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10/23/2003 6:09:12 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: OESY
Making the aid a loan instead of a grant is like throwing a drowning person a float with no air. Why punish the people for Saddams evil reign? These nay sayers piss away $20 billion before breakfast every day on failed social programs.
To: Ron in Acreage
Heck, let's put every former dictatorship on U.S. welfare then.
To: Austin Willard Wright
Heck, let's put every former dictatorship on U.S. welfare then.Former? How about the $20 million promised Arafat? Are we still paying the weasely little terrorist? The Pork from Byrd’s state alone would pay for Iraq.
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10/23/2003 6:42:17 AM PDT
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yoe
(Term Limits - and 2 terms are the limit for all elected to a Federal office!!)
To: yoe
Yes....indeed. Of course, we know that welfare has turned West Virginia into a paradise on earth. Heck, if we do the same for Iraq, the resulting miracle will be astounding. Next, I suppose the conservative something-for-nothing welfarists will start defending the Great Society.
To: Austin Willard Wright
Next, I suppose the conservative something-for-nothing welfarists will start defending the Great Society.
Any day now! All they're waiting for is a queue from the WH. Blackbird.
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