Posted on 01/07/2007 7:51:21 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Pelosi hints at denying Bush Iraq funds
12 minutes ago
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said newly empowered Democrats will not give President Bush a blank check to wage war in Iraq, hinting they could deny funding if he seeks additional troops.
"If the president chooses to escalate the war, in his budget request, we want to see a distinction between what is there to support the troops who are there now," she said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
"The American people and the Congress support those troops. We will not abandon them. But if the president wants to add to this mission, he is going to have to justify it and this is new for him because up until now the Republican Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards, no conditions," said Pelosi, D-Calif.
Her comments on CBS' "Face the Nation" came as Bush worked to finish his new war plan that could send as many as 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq and provide more money for jobs and reconstruction programs.
Bush is expected to announce his plan as early as Wednesday.
When asked about the possibility of cutting off funds, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer declined to say whether Democrats might do so, saying only that the current strategy clearly is "not working."
"I don't want to anticipate that," said Hoyer, D-Md., on "Fox News Sunday."
Some military officials, familiar with the discussions, say Bush at first could send 8,000 to 10,000 new troops to Baghdad, and possibly Anbar Province, and leave himself the option of adding more later if security does not improve.
"Based on the advice of current and former military leaders, we believe this tactic would be a serious mistake," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
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"It's ruined by single-issue voters who won't support someone who isn't totally in agreement with them on guns, gays, abortion or immigration."
You win the thread. :)
Every time I see her on the news I get a sick stomach! Did you notice that fake plastic looking smile? It reminds me of the Joker!
They could do with half the troops they have their now if we would use our military the was it was designed to be used, break things and kill people!
I hear ya....I hear the same thing from my hubby..a 1sgt
"She would be making a serious mistake. This country would split right down the middle."
I think you're missing the point.
That is EXACTLY what the Radical left wants!
A divided country makes it EASIER to push through an Anti-family, anti-life, anti-American pro-Socialist agenda..
And thier willing Media allies will make it all that much easier.
Remember, Global Warming will kill us all, and our only hope is to accept Marxism/Socialism as our savior by electing Al Gore as Global Dictator, kill God, and butcher babies...
I want to deny NANCY PELOSI funds for her next face lift.
Yeah, I don't think she has the nerve or the political power to pull this off.
That said, I'm sure she's congenitally twitching with these kinds of liberal impulses.
re: Where are they?
Truth is there aren't that many of them. If you look at the voting nationwide this was anything but a rout or a landslide. The nation is just about evenly split between those who get it and those who don't, so it's how the relative few left over decide to vote that moves the sticks.
Time is running out. If we don't get serious about the threat our nation faces it's over for us.
It's kind of like playing Risk. The islamofascists know how to take over the weak, and will eventually get strong enough to go on to bigger prey, right?
Yeah, I don't think she has the nerve or the political power to pull this off.
That said, I'm sure she's congenitally twitching with these kinds of liberal impulses.
"They could do with half the troops they have their now"
Amazing how the attitude of an enemy changes after a visit by 35-50 B-52's, isn't it??
Maybe you need to check Bush's record a little more closely. He and his veto pen do not have a close relationship. Bush has signed everything and anything that has crossed his desk with only 1 exception - and that 1 exception had nothing to do with the Iraq War.
Congress holds the power of the purse through the appropriations process funding the Military (Article 1 Section 8 U.S. Constitution). Working for the Air Force in a Budget Office we have played hell to make ends meet over the last few fiscal years. After the November elections we had a pretty good feeling we were screwed! The statements by this raving moonbat confirm it. I fear for our ability to Fly, Fight and Win in FY08. God help us all if she gets her way.
The GOP needs to run a TV add to the idiots.
The GOP needs to run an add telling the idiot RINOS this is what you get for not supporting what you promised in your campaigning as a conservative!!!!
So how do we tell them NOW! What influence can we have, where do we go, to alert the computer driven, that this is what is planned? No wonder they never acknowledged their plans for Iraq! If they had, they would have lost the election!
Right on! It's time to get hot or get off the pot. History will judge the entire war and our efforts by what happens in the next six weeks!
I'm being realistic about it .. we don't have any wiggle room with a Dem control congress
Deny it .. but it is a fact
Try it, bitch....
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