Michael Roston, Huffington Post
Dusting off his strategy from the previous showdown over Iraq war spending, President Bush has begun a public campaign to pressure Congress to quickly take up his “emergency” request.
Bush claims U.S. soldiers will suffer if the money isn’t passed in time for the holidays. But senior congressional Democrats who oversee war funding don’t believe the hype.
Staff for two top Democratic appropriators tell the Huffington Post that there’s no need to bring up the additional funding for the troops until spring 2008.
“We’ve made it clear to the leadership that we plan to take up the President’s supplemental request next year, and we’re looking toward February,” said Matthew Mazonkey, a spokesman to Rep. John Murtha, who chairs the powerful House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
“If we finish the main Defense appropriations bill on schedule,” he added, “the troops will be provided for until March.”
He lied about what happened to the WTC and he has lied ever since, He’s a treasonous, lying butt-hole, so what’s new ?