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Double oink

Posted on March 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Double oink

The Senate lards on the pork in narrowly passing its version of the troops funding measure. Still to be worked out, apparently, is the Senate’s March 31, 2008 withdrawal-from-Iraq deadline, as opposed to the House’s Sept. 1, 2008 withdrawal date. All of which may be mute if Bush, as expected, vetoes it all. You could call them unpatriotic. But I’d prefer "bought-and-paid-for."

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Oink

Posted on March 24, 2007 | Comments Off on Oink

The House Dems’ lonely cry: We’ll end the war by funding the war and, meanwhile, here’s some pork.

"To get her narrow majority of 218 votes, Ms. Pelosi and Appropriations Chairman David Obey had to load it up like a farm bill: $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers, $283 million for dairy farmers–all told, some $20 billion in vote-buying earmarks of the kind Democrats campaigned against last year."

It won’t pass the Senate, of course, and if it does Bush has promised a veto. Just don’t call them unpatriotic. 

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