BREAKING-House passes $106 billion fundng bill

[jenmito]

226-202. Just saw it on MSNBC.

[Clear Blue Sky]

1. Oh good. Where will this $106B come from? Fire up the printing presses...

[lamp_shade]

2. Yesssssssss...

[Oregone]

3. I was worried we weren't going to have enough to keep bombing children and goat farmers

[Clio the Leo]

6. Or grant money for swine flu vaccine research or promote more fuel efficient cars....

.... and stuff.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/06/11/war_bills_flu_provision_could.html?hpid=topnews

[cottonseed]

4. Who cares. Nothing really matters anyways.

Obama hurt my feelings and he's worse than Bush. Kucinich was my only love and he flew off with some red head in a flying saucer.

[jenmito]

5. I'm sorry for your loss. I'm sure LOTS of people had their feelings hurt when

Kucinich flew off with some redhead in a flying saucer. :(

[lindisfarne]

7. Why don't the Republicans support the troops? Only 5 voted for it.

The $106 billion measure, in addition to about $80 billion for military operations, provides for an array of other spending priorities, including $7.7 billion to respond to the flu pandemic and more than $10 billion in development and security aid for Pakistan and Iraq as well as countries such as Mexico and the nation of Georgia.

Democratic leaders pushing the bill on behalf of the Obama administration had to overcome an unusual alliance. Anti-war Democrats opposed continued war spending and Republicans condemned $5 billion in the measure to secure a $108 billion U.S. line of credit to the International Monetary Fund for loans to poor countries.

The vote was 226-202, with only five Republicans voting for the bill and 32 Democrats opposing it.
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No loans to poor countries; it might help to prevent terrorism & wars in the future

[MadHound]

8. And the war machine keeps feeding meat into the grinder. Just gotta love that "change"

Two party/same corporate master system of government is functioning quite well, thank you very much.

[QC]

9. They can move pretty fast when they want to. n/t

[avaistheone1]

10. Washington was crying last week it was going to have to cut back on entitlements.

This week we have Billions of dollars to blow up the planet.

How things change.

[lindisfarne]

11. Actually, there's money for humaniarian purposes in there too! nt