GOP Slams Pelosi:: Get Back to Work

[Geezah]

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.

We are especially troubled by the House's 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 failure to act.

It should go without saying that our military leaders are in the best position to know the needs of our troops, 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." 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."

Our troops need this funding, and they need it soon. The Senate is in session and ready to work. We respectfully request that you cancel the remainder of your break, call the House back into session, appoint conferees promptly, and work in good faith 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.

Link (http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm)

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[Durandal]

Pelosi is about as good as Bush in managing the opposition and giving them "fodder" for their press.

Better at speaking (even if I find her voice annoying) but no better at damage control.

EVERY House vote is either too slow or too fast mainly as a cause of one of the many vacations they take.

Pelosi should have taken care of this before she left because of the possible negative press and to be honest, troops in the field aren;t going to start running out of supplies if the vote happens two weeks later.

The negative press is there now and she has to show now why she "hates" our troops so much.

Ahhhh the sweet, sweet, smell of politics.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Ahhhh the sweet, sweet, smell of politics.

Ain't it the truth. I sometimes think the country would be better off if we just froze all programs for 18 months and sent them all home.

[PPSH41]

Ain't it the truth. I sometimes think the country would be better off if we just froze all programs for 18 months and sent them all home.

no kidding. time for a vote of "no confindence" in the government.

[Noble713]

no kidding. time for a vote of "no confindence" in the government.

Any chance we could rent Putin from the Russians? Hmmm, that would be interesting, temporary Executive/Legislative Branches bouncing from country to country doing local damage control and restructuring, kinda like some of the talented CEOs do for big companies. The locals could enact some kind of "Stewardship" program so they don't violate constitutional laws about needing to be a natural-born citizen to be President, etc. Although I shudder to think of the obscene salary and bonuses they would get for cleaning up the government of a $12 trillion dollar economy.

[Durandal]

Any chance we could rent Putin from the Russians?

Only if you want to make things worse and completely destroy what remains of Americana...

[Bia]

First paragraph after, "Dear Speaker Pelosi" is hype...

why read farther?

l0Lz

[ElHombre]

Dear GOP Leaders and President Bush,

While your concern is admirable, one must wonder where it was a year ago when the previous Congress took 86 and 119 days, respectively, to enact similar funding requests made by the President. By way of comparison, Speaker Pelosi has taken about 60 days thus far.

Take your feigned concern and blow it out of your collective asses. If y'all are so concerned about troops funding, perhaps you might actually include said funding in the regular budget cycle made by the White House each year.

Yours truly,

ElHombre

[Nano]

First paragraph after, "Dear Speaker Pelosi" is hype...

why read farther?

l0Lz
Why bother reading it after reading the title? It is all of the same just from the another side this time around. I am just waiting for California Joe to declare his candidacy for president or some public office so I could say that there is one politico I would not mind shaking his hand. California Joe for President!!wootwoot

[Chulo]

atleast they didnt tell her to get back in the kitchen and start fixing dinner

[Chulo]

Dear GOP Leaders and President Bush,

While your concern is admirable, one must wonder where it was a year ago when the previous Congress took 86 and 119 days, respectively, to enact similar funding requests made by the President. By way of comparison, Speaker Pelosi has taken about 60 days thus far.

Take your feigned concern and blow it out of your collective asses. If y'all are so concerned about troops funding, perhaps you might actually include said funding in the regular budget cycle made by the White House each year.

Yours truly,

ElHombre

but isnt the funding running out in the next week or so, while last year it wasnt close to the deadline

[Mailman]

Tish tosh, minor details dear sir!

Mailman

[joedirt]

there actually will be money for quite a while. the reason the democrats are doing this is to bring accountability to the white house in regards to Iraq since 2003 the administration has made one bad choice after another and every year asks for a supplemental spending package that really is a pretty big chunk of change. I really doubt there is anyone elected to office in this country regardless of party who does not support the armed forces and this is also is true for the majority of Americans. the stakes are extremely high right now and George Bush's government has failed repeatedly it is time to change how things are done and finally show some backbone and bring him under control. the democrats might say they wont to start pulling troops by 2008 but we all know that is not going to happen regardless who is in power in this country in the next few years there will be Americans there for quite a while into the future. over 400 billion dollars has been squandered on this adventure in Iraq money that could have benefited this country and the people who live in it. I would take a new school being built in America or a health care program over a bunch of fancy JDAMS used to level houses in Ramadi any day.

[noname]

I would take a new school being built in America or a health care program over a bunch of fancy JDAMS used to level houses in Ramadi any day.

I would rather see the public education system turn out intelligent kids, kids who can read, write, and be able to balance a checkbook. That would involve purging the education system of incompetent teachers, or those that feel the necessity to spread their idea of socialism.

Also I would rather not see a socialized health care program, Walter-Reed seems to be a microcosim of what nationalized health care would look like. Maybe i misread what you meant, but throwing money at these problems, you see, someone still has to pay for it right?

What do you have against JDAMs? They are better than carpet bombing a city to destroy houses in Ramadi yes?

[ElHombre]

but isnt the funding running out in the next week or so, while last year it wasnt close to the deadline

Not according to a couple of gov't agencies. They tallied the numbers and noted that the Pentagon has enough money to keep going through July.

[Geezah]

Not according to a couple of gov't agencies. They tallied the numbers and noted that the Pentagon has enough money to keep going through July.

Still trying to justify the actions of the loony left................

[Durandal]

If y'all are so concerned about troops funding, perhaps you might actually include said funding in the regular budget cycle made by the White House each year.

Ain't that the ƒucking truth.

[ElHombre]

Still trying to justify the actions of the loony left................

Still trying to keep from admitting that the critics were right all along...

[usa320]

Still trying to keep from admitting that the critics were right all along...

thats what its all about- proving the left was right and getting payback...

Not properly funding government programs and putting forward an agenda other than "get back at the republicans even though half our own party voted for the war".

[Durandal]

Not properly funding government programs and putting forward an agenda other than "get back at the republicans even though half our own party voted for the war".

Actually, it was more than half...

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

Ain't that the ƒucking truth.

Might want to remove the industrial arms complex to. I find it ****ing hilarious that the US spends x amount on the military yet the vast majority of this funding does not go to anything that is beneficial.

To quote independence day

15 thousand for a hammer and 20 thousand for a toilet seat.

[steelfury]

ok i just hope that people on this forum will hold the dems when they take the presidentry over, to the same standard. if you do kudos. Fair play..its not too much to ask.

[steelfury]

elhombre if they dissapoint you feel free to bitch...its your American right!

[Geezah]

Still trying to keep from admitting that the critics were right all along...

And those critics would be????

[Noble713]

Also I would rather not see a socialized health care program, Walter-Reed seems to be a microcosim of what nationalized health care would look like. Maybe i misread what you meant, but throwing money at these problems, you see, someone still has to pay for it right?


Always amazing how people take the worst example of something and extrapolate from that. Walter Reed is a single, DoD-run medical center. It sucks.

The VA (i.e. not DoD-run) has dozens (probably hundreds) of facilities. They don't suck. In fact, they are some of the best in the country. Government run healthcare done right.

But I guess people see what they want to see....