Michelle points to a post by Don Surber, Bush acknowledged word of this tactic today in his Heritage Foundation speech. He claimed there would be up to 11 Billion dollars in unnecessary spending in such a bill and vowed to veto same if it reached his desk.
1:07: Bush rejects combining the funding bills for military and veterans with the Labor/HHS appropriations bill. "It's hard to image a more cynical ploy than holding the funding hostage for our veterans," he says. "I will veto such a three-bill pileup."
From first link:
44 Republican senators sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Plurality Leader Harry Reid urging them to pass stand-alone Defense and VA spending bills by Veterans Day. The letter included this zinger: “Our soldiers and veterans already have done so much for our county. The Democratic Congressional Leadership should not now cynically use them to shoulder a bloated ‘minibus’ funding bill up Pennsylvania Avenue and wrest billions in excessive spending.”
"He claimed there would be up to 11 Billion dollars in unnecessary spending"
This from the moron who has wasted $500 Billion on a failed war in Iraq. What a dope...
Posted by: chris | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 03:51 PM
Glad to see The Dubya sticking to his guns on this.
I don't see any S-CHIP bloatage passing this year. The Dems are shameless in their pandering and pretentious "for the children...!" politicizing and thuggery by preventing vital funds and protection for our fighting men and women.
A den of vipers are they, the whole lot of them.
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 04:12 PM
--This from the moron who has wasted $500 Billion on a failed war in Iraq. What a dope...--
The ignorance displayed in this sentence is mind boggling. Poor chris. Bush is not a moron, the $$ are not wasted and the war has not failed. You managed to get it ALL wrong once again. Poor chris. It must be hard to be constantly outsmarted by "Bush the Dope." He will get all the funding he needs, have no doubt. The only question is, how stupid will the dems look in the meantime.
Poor, poor chris. I must hurt to lose EVERY time. I can only imagine how you will feel when the do-nothing dems get the boot and hillary steps on her dick and a republican takes the white house once again. So sad for you, poor chris.
Posted by: ET | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 05:13 PM
"Bush is not a moron, the $$ are not wasted and the war has not failed."
Semper Fi, patriot. The stuttering Decider and his 24% legion thank you for your service.
"hillary steps on her dick"
Oh my - the ANGER, the PATRIOTISM. More victories are assuredly coming your way.
Posted by: bobInStamford | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 06:02 PM
poor, poor boob. We all feel your pain...to be the top puppeteer in a losing cause must make you weep in your oatmeal. To be so LOUD and yet so WRONG. What a pity.
RANT ON, LIBERALS!
Posted by: ET | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 07:04 PM
You're still looking for Bush's fake Thanksgiving turkey, boob. I guess it's like those WMDs, it vanished into thin air, the only difference being that the WMDs were real, while that turkey you're looking for is not. Basically, that is the problem with you liberals, you chase a fake turkey, yet care nothing about thousands of WMDs missing since 2003. Why is that, boob? Why are you and your friends meaningless hacks?
Posted by: jj | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 07:05 PM
Oops - the WMDs were REAL. They just seemed to vanish without a trace! That clearly justifies the cowardly male cheerleader's invasion of Iraq. But, but they were there!!
SURGE ON, hero! Baghdad will be yours in a few SHORT years!
Posted by: bobInStamford | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 08:25 PM
Uh, bOOb, surely you aren't saying that the United Nations...the United Nations...would lie about WMDs existing in Iraq. The United Nations certified several thousand WMDs existent in Iraq, yet they have disappeared. I know you believe EVERYTHING the United Nations says, bOOb, so WMDs must have been in Iraq.
As for the Surge, it is working better than expected, and Bagdad is ours. Even Iraqis are convinced al-Queda is defeated. That makes you sad, bOOb. You wanted your country to lose, but not this time, bOOb. Now we must turn our full attention to a war you liberals say you support, the one in Afghanistan.
Posted by: templar knight | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 08:46 PM
Hey Boob...
RAWRrrRrkKKkkk!!!
Wanna cracker?
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 09:39 PM
The community of nations may see more and more of the very kind of threat Iraq poses now: a rogue state with weapons of mass destruction, ready to use them or provide them to terrorists. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow.
Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 10:04 PM
Doh!
I bet your would-be worshipers would rather not hear that line, Bill.
Posted by: seekeronos | Thursday, November 01, 2007 at 10:12 PM
"11 Billion dollars in unnecessary spending"
Wow, that's almost as much money as has already disappeared in the form of great big pallets of cash flown into Iraq on C-5s without so much as a ledger. At least they posted a few Blackwater guards, though.
Say, I wonder why the mercs are swimming in cash while the reconstruction halted years ago? Coincidence, I'm sure...
Posted by: scarshapedstar | Friday, November 02, 2007 at 10:48 AM
'Victories' cost money. If you don't like it, move to France.
Posted by: chris | Friday, November 02, 2007 at 11:44 AM