Shootout in the Beltway
This entry was posted on 3/28/2007 7:24 PM and is filed under Media, Politics.
As it has been reported the House presented a budget for Senate approval, which will be certainly vetoed by the President. The Senate did pass the proposal with a slim margin but as many Senators have said it was merely a means of getting to the President quickly while fully knowing it would be canned.
What did the budget contain other than the cut and run March 2008 policy as it relates to Iraq? Well it contained plenty of charred pork. The proposed budget was a sign of desperation on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s part as she attempted to rally the Blue Dog Democrats behind her in an effort to address the anti-war hard left wing branch of the Democrat Party, which is becoming a growing number of their supporters. Items included some of the following:
$100 million: Divided 50/50 for both parties to pay for national conventions. These taxpayers’ monies would be used to buy champagne and pay for live entertainment. Your author notes he will probably not be invited.
$3.8 billion for agriculture disaster relief, which would alleviate several disasters experienced during the past year. One such disaster would include the freeze that impacted the California citrus industry, a freeze that was probably spurned by global warming. Your author questions the need for some of this funding when farmers are required to maintain crop insurance.
An increase in tobacco taxes that would fund health insurance for poor children. When poor children make up the smoking population your author will support such logic.
$3.5 million allocated for Washington DC tourists who wish to see Congress in action.
These are just a few of the dozens of gems that all hinge on whether or not US troops will be withdrawn by March 2008. In other words federal monies will not be sent unless the troops give up and return back to the States.
The American Left has always maintained they support the troops despite their contempt for President Bush. Your author has argued this is impossible. Once again some folks trying to play sides and whether they like it or not, as your author has pointed out, the citizenry do not write foreign or military policy. They may wish to protest and vote but other than those mechanisms they are limited.
Speaker Pelosi and her closest supporters, most notably Democrat Congressman Jack Murtha from Pennsylvania and Senate Majority Leader Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada have shown their willingness to ingratiate themselves to a segment in our society that lives in a fantasy world. This group embraces Socialist ideology and wishes the United States to maintain a neutral stance in the world, while not aware that if such thought process is used the advocates will have to give up their current lifestyle. These same folks bond with rich Hollywood types, pseudo intellects or foreign critics and not the average American. Figures such as Michael Moore speak for them or at least takes their money when they pay to see his films.
Never mind that 3 of the 18 Iraq provinces are under control and that the only violence that we hear about compliments of the bias big media machine is from the city of Baghdad. Forget mentioning the progress made in the country, intelligence gathered against combatants and the very fact that the Muslim terrorists have been shuttered. This is completely irrelevant and the American Left has said so by Pelosi and the House’s actions.
Reader your author has repeatedly stated why the Democrats won in November 2006 and it had nothing to do with the Iraq War. The evidence of such statement?-The Mark Foley intern scandal and Jack Abramoff ties to Republicans. The very fact that longtime Connecticut Democrat Congressman Joe Lieberman was ousted by his own party, then won as an Independent against Anti-War Democrat Ned Lamont and his millions are proof enough. In other words the American Left had their candidate and he failed. Yet Pelosi and others still maintain this anti-Iraq War mantra, going to so far to hang the federal budget on it.
Reader remember this budget attempt and the outcome of the Lamont-Lieberman election, when trying to make sense of the House and their leader Pelosi. Something tells your author the Democrats are shooting blanks and all is not well.
