Hey Astrocloud.....
In addition to my points about the subversion of the free press by religiously driven, partisan billionaires....and by William F. Buckely Jr.'s nephew, Brett Bozell, I thought that I provided a non-partisan explanation of what actually is taking place with regard to the supplemental war funding bill. The Congressional Daily reporting, titled, "* Bill to boost war spending has something for everyone (03/09/07)"
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0307/031307cdam1.htm
.....seems to explain the reasons for most of the non-military "add ons", and I provided other support for my point that this is about the way congress does business, not "democrats in congress", as Charles Hurt painted it. Republicans also seem to acknowledge that many cuts or omissions in their pre-midterm election budget proposals were legitimate expenditures, but delayed for political reasons....they had to appear to voters to be "reigning in" spending.
If you disagree with any of the spending "add-ons", as explained in the piece that I just linked to, let's discuss the specifics. If we can afford to waste hundreds of billions in Iraq, why wait until next october to fund these add-ons, when the government can borrow more money now, to do them?
We have added $3 trillion to the total federal treasury debt, since Jan. 2001. It was $5.7 trillion then, this year, it will reach $9 trillion. IMO, it's already hopeless....it won't be reversed, and that was the intent....just ask <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200889.html">Grover Norquist</a>....to bankrupt the federal treasury. If republican Jack King, for example, can't get the "add-on" for children's health insurance in GA, this will happen:
Quote:
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...cid=1114564774
.........This week's maneuvering over PeachCare's $131 million shortfall opened a window on the tensions between Georgia's congressional delegation and the statehouse — both dominated by Republicans — that have grown over the last couple of months.
The state's congressional delegation scratched its collective head recently when Perdue sent the General Assembly home for two weeks, saying they could do nothing more for PeachCare until Congress acted. Congress had no plans to do anything about the program during those two weeks.
"It's a judgment call on their part," Rep. Nathan Deal, a Hall County Republican involved in the search for federal funds, said of Perdue's maneuver. "I can understand from their perspective that they want to know what Congress is going to do."
Perdue this week finally committed state funds to temporarily keep PeachCare afloat, but only while saying Congress had finally heeded his call by adding $735 million needed by Georgia and the other states facing shortfalls to the Iraq war bill.
The House Appropriations Committee arranged that amendment this week, though its chairman and other House leaders announced weeks ago they intended to use the Iraq bill as a vehicle for funding SCHIP.....
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I use the above reporting as support for my point that Charles Hurt's "article" in the OP, totally ignored that this "add-on" example, and I'm sure, at least half the others, have strong support from republicans. Only republicans are mentioned in the demand to fully fund SCHIP, something that republican governer Perdue has said that Bush promised to do, but then didn't......
All spending should be budgeted in the federal budget, and the "lame duck" congress, after the november election, didn't bother to draft or pass a "real" 2007 to 2008 budget, so things are reduced to this....
Charles Hurt was throwing the same "Support the Troops" rant at us,....give them the money....so they can "fight the GWOT"....it is "un" patriotic to add non-military items to the spending bill....blah....blah....blah....