Posted on 03/23/2007 9:42:37 AM PDT by pabianice
Dems vote for defeat, plus $124B in pork to its reps.
Both Waters and Lee voted no, I wonder if they even realized what they were voting on?
Rep. Mike Pence quips:
"Here are some examples of what the Democrats consider 'urgent' needs that require 'prompt action: '
-- $25 million for payments to spinach producers
-- $120 million to the shrimp industry
-- $74 million for peanut storage
-- $5 million for shellfish, oyster and clam producers
"Spinach, shrimp, peanuts and shellfish? That's not a war funding bill, that's the salad bar at Denny's."
The only thing missing is the incoming passenger jet.
$2.10 rise in the minimum wage
$1.8 billion in crop disaster assistance
$1.9 million for a Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Celebration
$1.5 million for a virtual reality spray paint simulator system
$1 million for a biathlon trail upgrade at Fort Richardson, Alaska
$150 million for aircraft and facilities to patrol the U.S. northern border
$10 million to remove sediment from Rio Grande
500 million in emergency funding to suppress anticipated wildfires
$1.3 billion in new funding for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Katrina efforts
$515 million for state and local grant programs for port and rail security and "emergency management performance grants."
and others, a total of $21 billion in pork
Exactly right - Those in the GOP base who stayed home last November (and put domestic issues over the WOT) are just as responsible for the further difficulties, worries and uncertainties our soldiers down range will now face (and continue to face for the next year and a half).
Harry Mitchell (AZ-5 - they guy who outsted JD Hayworth): Rep. Mitchell beat the fiscal responsibility drum on his campaign website: “Unfortunately, fiscal irresponsibility and pork-barrel spending has Washington swimming in red ink . . . In Congress, I will promote fiscal policy that is both responsible and accountable, just as I did at the local level.” Now that his own Democratic leadership is the one doing the drowning, will Rep. Mitchell have the courage to just say no? [nope, he voted yes]
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/03/the_iraq_spending_bill.php
Exactly! Bears repeating...
The base turned out like it or not....it was the moderates as much as we all hate to admit it. But we are lucky, most moderates are tools and all you have to do is toss them a bone once in a while and they will love you, a moderate 2008 President wouldnt be the worst thing for our electoral prospects, Sam Brownback would.
Headline:
"House Democrats Vote Against Troops For Bribes of "Pork"
Protest Placard:
"House Dems- Pork over Troops"
Bringing your poor Rudy crap into this thread shows how little you care.
"If our side has any skill at all, getting rid of him in '08 should be like shooting fish in a barrel."
The mountain hippies, greens and Yankee liberal halfbacks who infest Shuler's district are well organized, it will take quite a fight.
There is no such thing as a "blue dog".. they owe all their jobs to the leadership so their strings are pulled like puppets..
They will do whatever it takes to keep employed.
Since when does a "good" man sell out the Troops, his party, the Country just because he has "libs attacking him"?!?!?
The bill is loaded with billions of dollars in earmarks, seemingly included to help attract undecided members. These include:
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from Democrats add non-military spending, pork to troop funding bill
The supplemental spending bill includes more than $3.7 billion in farm subsidies, $2.9 billion in additional Gulf Coast hurricane relief and $2.4 billion for social programs such as money for rural Northwest school districts, health insurance for poor children, energy assistance for poor families and others.
Not enough to override a definite Presidential veto! There will be many Presidential vetoes from now on for the next two years, and no legislation will always be a much better option than very bad legislation.
That's an ignorant and offensive statement.
By the way, what is suspected to be the largest employer in the state is located either in (I think) or very near his district - I don't think all his constituents who work at the National Security Agency will take too kindly to this.
Gilchrest defected.
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