Democrats Back Down on Withholding Funding For Our Troops
June 16th, 2008 at 10:38pm Matt Margolis
Once again the Democrats back down…
Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill of his presidency without any of the conditions they sought for withdrawing U.S. troops, congressional aides said on Monday.
Lawmakers are arranging to send Bush $165 billion in new money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, enough to last for about a year and well beyond when Bush leaves office on January 20.
“It’ll be the lump sum of money, veterans (funding) and that’s it,” said one House aide familiar with the negotiations on the legislation.
Sorry Democrats, looks like the troops will get funded.
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4 Comments
1. Danish Artist | June 17th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Goes to show the lemming left, liberal Democrats are only interesting in votes not results.
Hmmmm, let’s see on proposed legislation:
Promise: Out of Iraq
Result: Weak non-binding resolutions, no confidence votes and unrealistic cut-and-run haphazard withdrawals.
Promise: “Common sense legislation” on gas/oil
Result: Unrealistic climate change initiatives, spending on making the Capitol “green” with a 45 year payoff of spending vs yearly savings. Gas/oil prices through the roof.
Promise: Social Security & Medicare fixes
Result:
Promise: education fixes
Result:
The lemming left has been fooled time and again. When will they lear?
2. Jason Argos | June 17th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Let us have a moment to remember this good man who died recently supporting his country. This article by the Army Times
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/06/military_suicide_060808w/
3. hermie | June 17th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Actually, in 2006 Pelosi & Co said that Social Security didn’t need to be fixed, so they offered no plan.
4. Timothy Horrigan | June 17th, 2008 at 8:57 am
The Democrats are NOT proposing reducing our troops’ pay or benefits… nor are they even proposing reducing the number of troops worldwide (although they do oppose “stop loss” orders keeping personnel in uniform after their original service commitment is met.) What they are against is continuing funding for the war in Iraq.