#8 Someone should set fire to his porkbarrel and see how he likes it.
The time to do that was **before** the last elections. Unfortunately, the f****wits who "led" the late, not-so-geat Republican majority were too damned busy feathering their own nests to pay any attention to what was right for the country as a whole. If we weren't at war, I'd have said "good riddance" to the lot of them. Unfortunately, their fecklessness and stupidity is very, very likely to give us a seven-figure body count in midtown Manhattan in the next few years. |
Democratic Representative John Murtha, chairman of a House subcommittee on defense spending, said he will try to block the increase of U.S. forces in Iraq and force the closing of a military prison in Guantanamo Bay by withholding funds for those operations. Murtha said his panel will draft a set of conditions to be attached to the emergency spending legislation for military operations that President George W. Bush is to submit to lawmakers next month. ``We have a role as elected officials to exert our influence through the power of the purse,'' said Murtha. ``We're going to look at every aspect'' of the funding request.