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NCB.....The fact that you want to continue to focus on these dead-end bills (yes, I agree with you, for the most part, they have no merit..and no support and no chance of passage) only demonstrates to me that you have nothing positive to say about the success (?) of your own party’s agenda over the last five years.
What I find amusing is that some here seem to think that only Dems introduce bills that have no merit and have no wide spread support even among their own party and will never see the light of day.
The difference is that the Dems havent demagogued the Repubs by creating a list of such meritless Repub bills that have no support within their own party, with inaccurate descriptions, and that they know full well, have no chance of passage.
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Magic Toy......in response to which President robs the Social Security Trust Fund in order to make the debt/deficit picture look better....alll recent presidents have, but none to the extent of Bush:
Bush has requested and the Repub Congress has approved over $400 billion in "supplemental appropriations" to fund the war in Iraq over the last 5 years.
Supplemental appropriations are "off budget" spending, meaning that there is no budget authorization to pay for these expenses, so what the government does in "borrow" from the Social Security Trust Fund.
It is basically a paper transfer, but without a paper trail, so this $400 billion never shows up in the deficit figures.
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