Democrats rush to victory
Last week we were treated to the sight of old bags in pink boas with tears streaming down their leathery, bloated cheeks because Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t pull the troops out of Iraq. A lot of theater, not much substance. Now that Code Pink is safely behind bars, or safely leaning on a bar, or barred from Nancy Pelosi’s office, the Demorats can get back to the business of politics.
Now Mark Pryor, a Democrat from Arkansas, has proposed a “secret” date for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. According to the Washington Post;
The Arkansas Democrat is a key holdout on his party’s proposal to approve $122 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while setting a goal of March 31, 2008, for winding up military operations in Iraq. Unlike the plan’s Republican opponents, Pryor wants a withdrawal deadline of some kind. He just doesn’t want anyone outside the White House, Congress and the Iraqi government to know what it is.
So the thing is; the Democrats don’t have to agree on a date, they don’t really have to have a date at all. All they have to do is get on TV and say “Sorry, that’s classified and I can’t talk about it”. They can payoff the anti-war nuts without really having to do anything. And since liberalism is only graded on intentions and not performance, they’ll all get an “A+”. Yay! Brilliant. They can just wait till everyone forgets about it, like Bill Clinton’s promise to withdraw troops from Bosnia (the deadline was 11 years ago, if you’ve lost count, by the way).
Meanwhile, the Senate is busy loading up the defense with $20 billion worth of pork, according to the Washington Examiner;
Like their counterparts in the House, the Senate has larded its version of an “emergency†war spending bill with nearly $20 billion in pork-barrel outlays, including $100 million for the two major political parties’ 2008 presidential conventions.
The $121 billion bill includes $102 billion for the troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as $14 billion for Hurricane Katrina aid and more than $4 billion for “emergency farm relief.â€
“Congress will have to make the choice between booze and balloons or bullets and body armor,†John Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., told The Examiner on Monday. Coburn and a handful of other senators hope to shame their colleagues into stripping the pork out of the war spending bill.
I guess their eyes just glaze over at the prospect of a defense spending bill. This is how the Democrats support our troops, this how much they love the country. This is how much Democrats care about our National Security.
Category: Politics
