[Grovenet] Ugly Politics...

[Meredith Bliss]

Oh yeah? Under the R's, all of the spending would have been slipped into the 
bill the night before the vote and no one would know about it until months 
later.

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 14:47, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Democrat style:
>
> WASHINGTON - While Democrats try to restrict how President Bush can spend
> the $100 billion he wants for Iraq, they also hope to load his measure up
> with $10 billion in add-ons - from aid for avocado growers to help for
> children lacking health insurance...
>
> Bush and GOP leaders on Capitol Hill managed to keep prior war funding
> bills largely free of such budgetary add-ons when Republicans controlled
> Congress. Now that Democrats are in charge, the party's leaders are eager
> to use the cost of the war as leverage to force Bush to accept spending -
> such as aid to farmers - that he has successfully killed in the past.
>
> "It's starting to become a train onto which a lot of baggage is being
> thrown that has got nothing to do with the war or really legitimate
> emergencies," said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H.
>
> Countered Obey: "We will only fund what is necessary."
>
> Whatever is added to the bill in the House is likely to grow in the
> freer-spending Senate.
>
> Full story at:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_on_go_co/iraq_add_ons;_ylt=Ap_NoQbKN
>Q HJj7MsLPJLSRgb.3QA
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/384uqy
>
> --------------------------------
>
> For six years the President and Republican supporters have made the
> Democrats look good.
>
> Now the Democrats are in control in Congress and immediately start making
> the President and the Republicans look good.
>
> Sigh...
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire
>
>
>
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