Dems Issuing A Blank Check to Bush?

  You've probably all read it by now, hoe the Democrats are crafting a war funds bill that would have no timelines for troop withdrawal in it. I should note that they are also cutting back on the money for our domestic needs because King George doesn't like those either.

  The Democrats are pointing out that the federal minimum wage increase is in the funding bill, but so are some of the tax cuts for for small business's that hire low-skilled or handicapped workers.

   Of course, the usual anonymous sources are saying that the details of the bill are subject to change.  Sure they are, and George Bush is subject to an increase in his I.Q., and we know that isn't going to happen.

    So, military operations in Iraq will be funded through the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30, 2007.

   The Democrats will hope and pray that they can get enough Republicans to switch over to supporting the troop withdrawal when the imaginary September ' wait and see ' period comes around and things are no better in Iraq. Not gonna happen folks. The Republicans are playing a different version of ' bait and switch ' on the Democrats, who are falling over it like rocks in water.

   The Democrats say that they are pushing this currant bill forward because they want to avoid another Bush veto. Bush's veto's were the only thing that Congress had going in their favor and they just flat out trashed it. What a bunch of fucking idiots!  My pet ferret has more spine than these wussies.

     Sorry to say it people. Don't look for any kind of a withdrawal timeline for our troops or for any ' benchmarks ' with any bite for the Iraqis because it ain't going to happen until Bush and the rest of these clowns are all gone. I seriously doubt if it will happen even then.

   The Democrats are turning into ' Bush Lite.'

Tags: Democrats Congress Republicans Iraq war funding George Bush veto

Pork-barrel Spending Continues With Democrats In Control

   A Senate bill which was approved last week to authorize water projects has some 446 earmarks contained in it. 692 earmarks are in the House version of the bill.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.): Senator Boxer drafted this bill which runs at $14 billion. $1.4 billion goes to funding projects in her state. she got $25 million for the revitalization of the Los Angeles River, which is double what the Republicans where going to put into their bill. That bill met a death in the last Congress.              Source

 

Money for California water projects

Here are some major provisions for California in the Senate version of the Water Resources Development Act, whose chief sponsor is Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.:

-- Raising Folsom Dam for Sacramento-area flood control. Federal share, $444 million; other agencies, $139 million.

-- Bel Marin Keys restoration at Hamilton Army Airfield. Federal cost $166 million; nonfederal $55.5 million.

-- Llagas Creek flood work in Santa Clara County. Federal share $65 million, nonfederal $40 million.

Among items in the bill without a price tag:

-- Flood control project review in St. Helena in Napa County, South San Francisco bay shoreline flood and salt ponds restoration study, study of San Pablo Bay watershed and a report on whether federal maintenance of the Larkspur Ferry Channel is appropriate.       SFGate

 

   There hasn't been a new water project bill in at least seven years so now is a good time to put some of that federal cash to a use for something other than the Iraq war. I'm sure that between the bridges and the levee's and many other things that have been neglected, most of this money will be put to good use. If not, the Democrats will answer for it in the next election cycle.

   Let's just hope that they don't get carried away with their new found authority.

 

Tags: Barbara Boxer Democrats Republicans water authorization bill