Roll Call recounts that "in an unusual move, Senate Democrats split the votes on war funding and domestic spending, even though both will -- upon House passage -- move to the president as one piece of legislation." Dividing the vote "ensured that Democrats opposed to war funding would not have to cast a vote for the overall bill with that funding included." The
New York Times says Democratic leaders "conceded they were not happy with having to accept the war money and hew to the president's limit on spending. But they noted they were able to steer money to their priorities, win some spending against White House wishes, and complete all the spending bills, which they saw as a victory in itself."
To: SierraWasp; Grampa Dave; blam; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; kellynla; onyx; Brad's Gramma; Howlin; ...
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This guarantees a major US Troops presence in Iraq for at least the duration of this President’s term and if the Rats want to own defeat then all they have to do now is win the White House. If a Rat does win the White House then either they are automatically listed a loser or a liar.
5 posted on
12/19/2007 9:44:10 AM PST by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...which will fund government operations for 214 Cabinet departments.214 - WTF???
To: jveritas; FARS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; knighthawk; Marine_Uncle; SandRat; Steel Wolf; CAP; ...
9 posted on
12/19/2007 9:56:13 AM PST by
elhombrelibre
(GEN Petraeus is MAN of the YEAR. Ron Paul is the Jane Fonda of the year.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Good news.
Excellent herding and branding of congress by GW!
10 posted on
12/19/2007 9:58:04 AM PST by
Grampa Dave
("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Two stories here.
1) Bush has more power and popularity then MSM conventional wisdom.
2) Government will try to spend money to prop up economy to stay in power. Govenments try to manipulate the economy to stay in power, part of the reason for ‘the 4 year cycle’ in America for the last 50 years.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
There is some amazing spinning about this bill going on. We won’t know about all the stuff that was dumped in there for months, if ever.
23 posted on
12/19/2007 10:57:31 AM PST by
zeugma
(Hillary! - America's Ex-Wife!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
Heh heh... I guess we know which side of the aisle has ineffective leadership.
Senate adds Iraq war money to huge budget bill
Reuters | Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:17pm EST | Richard Cowan
Posted on 12/18/2007 10:09:20 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941527/posts
25 posted on
12/19/2007 11:29:34 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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