The Senate, actually, and more pointedly, at Harry Reid.
After all of the showboating of the all-nighter, which accomplished all of NOTHING, he pulled the entire Defense Funding Bill
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/....ap/index.html
So they want to force troop withdrawl, which we already knew, which they already tried and it was vetoed without enough votes to overturn it. Do they think Bush will change his mind? Or that the fundamental disagreements that Republicans have with the time table will disappear?
What makes me so mad about this, though, isn't their political agenda. It's that Reid pulled the entire Defense Spending/Funding Bill to play politics. The bill, as stated above, includes a pay raise for our military; it includes funding for more and better equipment for those deployed; it includes regulations on detaining "enemy combatants". So much for "supporting the troops".
And yeah, yeah, I know that they think that pulling the troops is supporting them. But they should also know that it ain't gonna happen with that time table. Bush won't go for it, and they don't have enough votes to override the veto. And in the meantime, they are denying the military a pay raise (which I think they deserve!) and equipment. They are ignoring the whole Gitmo issue, which I thought was one of their talking points.
Seems to me like they are pandering to the anti-war crowd to the exclusion of all else. What happened to that whole idea of "compromise" and "working together" they were so fond of talking about when they took control on Congress?
After all of the showboating of the all-nighter, which accomplished all of NOTHING, he pulled the entire Defense Funding Bill
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/....ap/index.html
Quote:
| The maneuvering occurred as the Senate debated a broad defense bill that includes a pay raise for the troops, revised regulations for detaining suspects in the war on terror and an increase in the size of the Army and Marines. Following the vote, Reid said he would suspend work on the measure, to which the Democrats sought to attach the troop withdrawal provision, until a date to be determined. |
What makes me so mad about this, though, isn't their political agenda. It's that Reid pulled the entire Defense Spending/Funding Bill to play politics. The bill, as stated above, includes a pay raise for our military; it includes funding for more and better equipment for those deployed; it includes regulations on detaining "enemy combatants". So much for "supporting the troops".
And yeah, yeah, I know that they think that pulling the troops is supporting them. But they should also know that it ain't gonna happen with that time table. Bush won't go for it, and they don't have enough votes to override the veto. And in the meantime, they are denying the military a pay raise (which I think they deserve!) and equipment. They are ignoring the whole Gitmo issue, which I thought was one of their talking points.
Seems to me like they are pandering to the anti-war crowd to the exclusion of all else. What happened to that whole idea of "compromise" and "working together" they were so fond of talking about when they took control on Congress?
