Hill Close To Deal on War Funds

[kskiska]

Source: WP

Plan Includes Boost In Domestic Spending

Saturday, December 8, 2007; A01

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."

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120702550.html?hpid=topnews

[bluestateguy]

1. More war money with a few table scraps of pork thrown in...

A little money for deadbeats who don't pay their mortgages. That's sure worth a blank check for Baby Bush to play war for another year.

[rodeodance]

3. there is no taxpayer $$ going to those mortage problems.

[zabet]

2. The Dem Congress is

as spineless as a petri
dish full of amoebas. x(

[rodeodance]

4. NOT one filibuster from them (the Dems)--just lots of yelling from Repugs and bingo.

[PSPS]

5. "failed to force Bush to change course in Iraq"

Talk about a biased tilt!

... 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.

To say they "failed" implies that they tried to do it.

The fact is that the democrats apparently don't want to stop the crime & killing spree any more than bush does. Otherwise, they'd just refuse to bring any bill to the floor for a vote that didn't stop the war crimes and theft of the treasury. Instead, we get more political theater with nonsense about "veto" and "we don't have the votes."

The democrats could easily stop this madness dead in its tracks today if they wanted to. But they don't.

[Pastiche423]

6. The Dems really are trying to lose 2008

aren't they.

[ixion]

7. because it's just not democracy if you're not killing people

thanks dems! :sarcasm:

[Truth2Tell]

8. Recommended, because people need to know

about the complicity.

Everyone who votes for this shit owns this war now. All of them.

[Voltaire99]

9. Reid and Pelosi: Bush couldn't have asked for better collaborators

Bushism is a simple recipe.

Take one part malevolence from the Republican side.

To that, add repeated dashes of feckless Democratic surrender.

Serves eight years.

[Brrrp]

10. Why is Steny the one floating this deal?

The article describes Nancy as uncommitted. Is Steny doing her dirty work for her?


Maybe she's trying to act like this isn't really her decision, but a "mandate" from her Democratic colleagues in the House.

But it is always her decision. She could simply not agendize this bill, or any other bill that gives Bush the money for the war without a deadline for withdrawal.

[Fluffdaddy]

11. Congress really disappoints me...............I'm Done caring

I sent money,I worked the polls. We won back Congress only to see the Democrats back down to every fight. I Done

[mike_c]

12. pigs....

I'm speechless with anger.

[rockybelt]

13. Traitorous bastards!

Pelosi, Reid, etal, you are now as guilty as George Bush and Dick Cheney with your complicity to keep this illegal and immoral war going. You have no business being in the Congress of The United States. You now belong in prison with your two pals in the white house.

Another dark day for the U.S.