Do Nothing Foundering democrats
Like this is any surprise. The November elections were decided based on the fact that the media told the country that Americans did not like President Bush and that the Iraq war should end. The people voted like sheep and we got the democrats. Have the democrats done what the media said the American people want? Of course not. The democrats can't even not step on their own dicks.
In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats' domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol: Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage and student loan interest rate cuts all passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.
But now that initial progress has foundered as Washington policymakers have been consumed with the debate over the Iraq war. Not a single priority on the Democrats' agenda has been enacted, and some in the party are growing nervous that the "do nothing" tag they slapped on Republicans last year could come back to haunt them.
"We just plain suck," said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel who helped engineer his party's takeover of Congress as head of the democrat Congressional Election Campaign. "People voted for change, but Iraq, the economy and Washington, D.C., [corruption] all tied for first place. We have done nothing about anything."
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President "Support the Troops" Bush has cut off funding for U.S. defense and homeland security, betraying the trust of U.S. troops fighting his war of choice in Iraq and the American people he swore an oath to defend.
With the veto, Bush denied:
• $20,594,672,000 in funding for the U.S. Army and reserves
• $7,891,201,000 in funding for the U.S. Air Force and reserves
• $5,974,169,000 in funding for the U.S. Navy and reserves
• $2,648,081,000 in funding for the U.S. Marine Corps and reserves
• $82,462,000 in funding for the U.S. Air National Guard
• $628,855,000 in funding for the U.S. Army National Guard
• $2,714,487,000 in other defense operational and maintenance funding
• $5,906,400,000 in funding for the Afghanistan Security Forces
• $2,432,800,000 in funding for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund
• $2,000,000,000 in funding for repair and replacement of homeland National Guard equipment
• $71,726,000 in intelligence funding
• $115,000,000 in funding for container and supply chain security
• $970,000,000 in funding for air travel security, including checked baggage explosive detection systems
• $8,000,000 in funding for Federal Air Marshals
• $190,000,000 in funding for port security
• $325,000,000 for passenger rail security
• $3,251,853,000 in funding for veteran's health care, including treatment of post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury
• $466,778,000 in funding for VA trauma centers, prosthetics, rehabilitation for the blind, and mental health treatment
• $595,000,000 in funding for upgrading VA hospitals and medical centers
• $32,500,000 in funding for prosthetic research for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
Those are the facts. President Bush does not support the troops, and wishes to leave them in Iraq indefinitely -- extension of tour after extension of tour, stop loss order after stop loss order -- without adequate protection, equipment, supplies, or medical care.
Cowards, all of you.
Comment by admin4— 2007/05/05 @ 06:07 PM — (Reply)