Posted on 06/06/2006 7:24:49 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer have been complaining for a week now about an $80 million cutback in New York City's anti-terrorism funding by the Department of Homeland Security.
But it turns out that they both voted to make substantial cuts in the city's terrorism funding last year.
According to Newsday, the Democratic duo backed a $95 million cut last December in funding from the Centers for Disease Control for bioterrorism programs around the nation. Of that amount, approximately $3 million would have gone directly to New York City.
Mrs. Clinton and her Democratic co-hort actually wanted to cut bioterrorism funding even more. In October, they both backed a preliminary proposal that would have slashed the CDC grant by $123 million.
On Sunday, Sen. Schumer staged a press conference to complain about a proposed $7 million cut from the CDC in the city's bio-terror programs, saying it was like "rubbing salt in the wound" after DHS announced cutbacks in the city's terror funding last week.
But Schumer failed to mention his own votes in favor of cutting bioterror funding.
He told Newsday that he "stands by" his earlier decision to slash terror funding for the city, saying he did so because the cuts were attached to a bill that funded health care and education.
Sen. Clinton, who has launched a letter writing campaign to force a restoration of DHS's terrorism funding for New York, has had no comment on her own votes to back cuts in anti-terror programs.
Flip flop; flip flop; flip flop. What a couple of winners.
I watched it and was disgusted at how stupid it all is. I can't stand ANY Kennedy. They're all crooks or charlatans.
Just posted it here http://albanysinsanity.com/?p=135 for all my readers.
Thanks Carl.
Can you say "let's create an issue that we can blame Bush for"?
These two make me sick. Thank god we have some people out there telling the truth like Carl Limbacher and us with Blogs.
Yep!
What I want to know is why they kept their bloody yaps shut when the money was being spent on things like diversity programs and air conditioners.
it was an election year
and bush can't win in the media
I thought he spent too much and it was running up the deficit
now he is spending to little
you are never going to make everybody happy and the media is always willing to give a air time to a "critic of the administation"
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