03.25.08

Smoke and Mirrors.

Posted in Economic at 9:25 pm by

All right, all right, all right, folks, step right up, and guess which cup has the pea under it. See the pea, watch the cups move, watch ‘em move, here we go…

Budget battle hinges on Iraq
By ANDREW TAYLOR

WASHINGTON - Democrats controlling Congress sent the most explicit signals yet on Thursday that they are resigned to providing additional funding for the war in Iraq before Congress adjourns for the year.

Conceding that President Bush is in a strong position as Congress seeks to wrap up its work, Democrats are cooking up a pre-Christmas endgame that would deliver tens of billions of dollars for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on conditions acceptable to the White House.

The Iraq funding would ultimately be attached by Bush’s Senate GOP allies to a $500 billion-plus “omnibus” appropriations bill taking shape in closed-door talks. That’s the only way they would let the measure advance through the Senate.

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Hoyer acknowledged Democrats are considering a legislative two-step in which the House would initially pass the catch-all spending bill next week without Iraq funding attached. But the Senate would add the money as the only way to avoid a GOP filibuster and House Democrats would reluctantly accept it.

Via Captain’s Quarters.

Yes, kids, that’s right: if you are a Democrat who is against the war, the above can be read as a tacit admission by your own Party that they think that you’re too stupid to notice when you’ve been stabbed in the back.

Oops, did I just type that out? Goofy me.

Read on.

Some minor observations:

a), The GOP is not actually going to stop pushing on the funding thing. I mean, why should we?

b), I hope all you netrooters reading this have saved your receipts. I say this because I don’t think that the Party that you supposedly bought is the same one that was described on the box.

c), To those same netrooters: George W Bush is beating you. Again. The Establishment Democrats are letting him do that to you. Again. You will be given a pseudo-choice in your choice for President, only to have it given to the previously-anointed Establishment candidate. Again.

d), And she hates all of you, by the way. Even more so than the usual Establishment candidates do. Better start giving her lots and lots of money. She won’t do anything for you if you do, but she might not do anything to you.

e), And last, I’d like to thank the entire liberal/progressive blogosphere for this wonderful Christmas present that you have helped give us: we’d offer back victory in Iraq in exchange, but I’m afraid that it doesn’t go with anything in your collective wardrobes.

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