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| GOP Slams Pelosi: Get Back To Work |
| 2007-04-10 |
| Grabbed this from Drudge before it gets moved! Link may need updating eventually. Today, GOP Leaders from both chambers urged Speaker Pelosi to call the House back into session immediately to finish its work on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill for the troops. Speaker Pelosi neglected to appoint House conferees before the two-week break, further delaying negotiations on a final bill. The joint letter to Pelosi is attached. Text follows: Dear Speaker Pelosi: We are writing to urge you to call the House back into session immediately so that Congress can finish its work on the emergency legislation to fund the Global War on Terrorism. This funding request has been pending since February 5, but your leadership team chose to leave town for more than two weeks rather than completing this bill. As a result, our troops have been put at risk but you knew that. We are especially troubled by the House's [read: your] failure to appoint conferees. The Senate appointed conferees on March 29, moments after passing its bill, but the House never did so despite passing the bill a week earlier. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Senate that he hoped the House-Senate conference would begin on March 30. That hoped-for progress has been thwarted by your intentional failure to act at the troops' expense. It should go without saying that our military leaders are in the best position to know the needs of our troops and not you, and they have left no doubt that this funding is needed urgently. General Peter Schoomaker, United States Army Chief of Staff, has written that, "without approval of the supplemental funds in April, we will be forced to take increasingly draconian measures which will impact Army readiness and impose hardships on our Soldiers and their families a thought you seem to relish." Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has also emphasized the dangers of delay: "This kind of disruption to key programs will have a genuinely adverse effect on the readiness of the Army and the quality of life for soldiers and their families who vote and have friends that vote." Our troops need this funding, and they need it soon. The Senate is in session and ready to work unlike you. We respectfully [not!] request that you cancel the remainder of your tantrum/vacation/shopping spree break, call the House back into session, appoint conferees promptly, and work in good faith [i.e.: do your job] to pass a clean supplemental funding bill that the President can sign as soon as possible. Every day we don't fund our troops is a day their ability to fight this war is weakened and your true colors are exposed at the expense of the children. Biatch. And just what are you going to do about it. Neener neener. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #9 The Republicans can be just as bad. You remember how they withheld funding from the Haiti operation, and Speaker Newt went to Serbia to the acclaim of the nationalists there, and Bob Michael attacked Carter's attack on, um, OK scratch that one. You do remember those, right? |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-04-10 22:26 |
| #8 Personally, I believe every Democrat currently serving in the House of Representatives or the Senate should be flushed, and barred from holding ANY political office for the rest of their lives. Their behavior is totally partaisan, and in direct conflict with their sworn oath to support the Constitution, or conduct their business in accordance with the directives in the Constitution. They are not "patriots", they are political hacks who think nothing of this nation, only about their own political power. They need to be considered what they are - traitors to This nation and its people. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-04-10 17:10 |
| #7 Makr us a samich! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-04-10 17:03 |
| #6 That's what I've been telling you, Joe. They don't give a rat's ass about the troops or the war. All they know is they hate George Bush and they want the White House. Watch, they'll hold up funding and then the MSM will start crying about how the military families are suffering because of the administration's failures. It's all about spin and power and blind ambition. They don't care if Iraq is divided between AQ and the Mad Mullahs. They don't care if the Mad Mullahs get the bomb. They don't care if the Mad Mullahs initiate a nuclear exchange with Israel even if the fallout reaches around the world and poisons the US. That's how immoral and irresponsible they are. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-10 11:52 |
| #5 huh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-10 11:11 |
| #4 Do not advocate murder on this website.... |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-04-10 10:14 |
| #3 can finish its work on the emergency legislation to fund the Global War on Terrorism. heh - using the banned phrase to poke the bitch. Gotta like that |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-10 08:34 |
| #2 It's the principle of the thing, Joe. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-04-10 07:22 |
| #1 FOX > DICK MORRIS > Morris claims to had recently spoken wid a pro-Democrat lawmaker/ personage whom says that the Dems will not give Dubya anything until they are assured victory in 2008 for the White House. IOW, THE DEMS WANT THE WH IN 2008 AND WILL FILIBUSTER ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, AND OF COURSE NUTHIN', TO WIN. MORRIS' SCOPE > VICTORY IN IRAQ-ME + WOT IS SECOND FIDDLE TO WINNING 2008. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-04-10 00:55 |