Reid allowed Mukasey vote for the PRIVILEGE to give Bush $460 billion

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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/10/harry-reid-allowed-mukasey-vote-to-make-deal-on-military-spending-bill/
Harry Reid Allowed Mukasey Vote To Make Deal On Military Spending Bill
By: Logan Murphy on Saturday, November 10th, 2007 at 12:15 PM - PST From Greg Sargent at TPM:

Here’s some more on what exactly happened in the negotiations that led up to the rushed confirmation of Michael Mukasey yesterday.

According to sources inside and outside the Democratic leadership, Harry Reid allowed a vote on Mukasey because in exchange the Republican leadership agreed to allow a vote on the big Defense Appropriations Bill, which contains $459 billion in military spending but doesn’t fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One key reason Dem leaders wanted this defense approps bill passed, sources tell me, is that they wanted to be able to argue that they had sent a bill to the President funding the military, if not the war itself. The idea was that doing this would allow them to protect themselves in the days ahead when the battle over Iraq funding heats up and Republicans inevitably charge that Dems are refusing to fund the troops.

“This lets us argue, `Hey, we just sent $450 billion to the military,” one leadership source tells me. Read on…

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1. The new "RUMOR is News" tendency should be countered for what it is, a bunch of LIES.

Mukasey was going to be confirmed, the hearing and vote were not rushed, and this is a huge pile of Dem bashing BS.