Via the Republican Study Committee:

This is without a doubt one of the worst bills to come to the floor since I have served in Congress. The Democrat bill creates 435 commanders-in-chief, it attempts to micromanage the war, it chokes off funding for America's troops, threatens our national security and contains billions in unrelated spending that wraps old fashioned pork in the American flag. With this bill, the Democrat majority has transformed pay-as-you-go to pork-as-you-go.

America take notice, for this is the Democrat version of fiscal responsibility and reform. Though this is a troop funding bill, the Democrats prohibit spending on spending on a Marine Corps deployed in Iraq unit beyond 210 days but spend $219 million on peanuts, shrimp, and spinach. This is how the Democrat Majority defines emergency spending? I'm told that if you look deep enough, the entire recipe for Kung Pao shrimp can be found in this bill.

Thankfully, the founding fathers created a system of government to prevent terrible pieces of legislation like this from becoming law. Thus, for all of the promises of money - and then threats - made by the Democrat leadership to their own members this week - this bill will go nowhere. In a month, we will again debate 'emergency spending' legislation and this time it will be clean.

The focus of the Iraq War Supplemental Bill ought to be on one thing: supporting our troops and securing our homeland from the threat that our nation faces from radical Islam. The Democrat's slow bleed strategy will harm our troops, harm our country and should be defeated. The cost of fighting this war is extremely high, but the cost of losing it is higher.

Posted by: Ragnar at 05:09 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 "pork-as-you-go" sounds dirty...

Posted by: wooga at March 23, 2007 06:19 PM (t9sT5)

2 Thankfully, the founding fathers created a system of government to
prevent terrible pieces of legislation like this from becoming law.

That's right, Defeatocrats.  Your razor thin majority isn't quite the mandate you claimed it was.  Elections have consequences.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at March 23, 2007 06:43 PM (yJKSD)

3 Here is a bill that has no legs except for those which our major media outlets will use to flog this administration.  Certainly, an argument can be made, rather strongly I think, that this administration has brought this onslaught to it's front doors by being so passive to all those previous attacks.  Most Americans are unwilling to produce more than "two cheeks" for turning while others just slap the sh*t out of them.  This administration insists on finding more cheeks for slapping... leaving many Americans to abandon its support.  For me, I am so sick and tired of the Democrats whining and hurting our country...but the Republicans seem to offer nothing more than cave-ins.  Where do fighters go, where do the warriors go, where do the believers in freedom go, and where do the winners go?

Posted by: RJ at March 23, 2007 07:20 PM (yyxO/)

4 RJ, They are over seas kicking the shit out of our enemies. There will be hell to pay in 08.

Posted by: wb at March 23, 2007 08:15 PM (tfzrA)

5 Muslim and democrats both eat shit and bark at the moon.

Posted by: greyrooster at March 23, 2007 08:50 PM (jNRRK)

6 "Where do fighters go, where do the warriors go, where do the believers in freedom go, and where do the winners go?"                  
           Well ... we have to be our own fighters. The folks serving our country in uniform aren't allowed to stand up for themselves, so we have to do it. Our leadership on the right can't communicate to citizens in the middle, so we need to do it ourselves.  If we don't hold counter demonstrations, nobody else will either. Like it or not, we are the cavalry, and we need to be riding over that hill NOW!
                       USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 23, 2007 09:46 PM (2OHpj)

7 ("pork-as-you-go" sounds dirty...)  Of course it does, and naturally Democrat party members are involved           USA, all the way!

Posted by: Michael Weaver at March 24, 2007 04:59 AM (2OHpj)

8 Michael Weaver,
 
You couldnt be more correct, the problem is that most of the calvary hasnt figured out that they are the calvary or that the indians have snuck into the fort and are attacking, so they are currently planted in front of the one eyed monster watching American Idol or Dancing with the Stars.  

Posted by: doriangrey at March 25, 2007 07:30 AM (F5T2G)

9 DorianGrey -

I dunno about the rest of this country, but I, for one, am not planted in front of anyone's "one-eyed monster."

Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold, Arrogant Prick at March 25, 2007 01:57 PM (1eK1l)

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