Pelosi willing to compromise with War funding

[sabra]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/06/499888.aspx#comments

It turns out that there will likely be some more war funding coming from the Democratic Congress this year after all.

Democrats had been adamant that their pre-Thanksgiving package of $50 billion for the war -- with conditions -- was a take-it-or-leave-it piece of legislation. No more.

The Administration and GOP campaign to highlight the possibility of mass Defense Department layoffs should no more money be forthcoming has paid off politically. Speaker Nancy Pelosi now says that there will likely be money in an end of the year spending bill targeting the civilian Defense employees, numbering in the tens of thousands, who would be notified in coming weeks of a furlough should Congress fail to act before the holiday break. Democrats were concerned about this potential development, and they now ready to act to avert it.

Pelosi also said that there might be money for the war in Afghanistan. Democrats have largely been supportive of the war effort there, as opposed to Iraq. Yet critics will see this as a shell game, since earmarking money for Afghanistan will free up money for the Administration and the Pentagon to send to Iraq.

Pelosi had promised anti-war Democratic members that she would stick by her guns and not put forward any more legislation this year that would fund the war in Iraq. This nascent arrangement -- hinted at for days on the Hill -- would allow her to stick to the letter of that pledge.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Edited: Okay, well, I guess this makes sense. nt

[underpants]

2. This would explain the warrantless wiretaps

Seriously I think this is what THAT is all about. Has to be.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. That, and the anthrax. nt

[annabanana]

4. "targeting the civilian Defense employees"

It is a shell game... but it might make political room for some necessary stuff..

[AndyA]

5. Compromise should be Nancy's middle name.

Whatever Bush wants, he gets. No opposition, just strong words and photo ops, but when it gets right down to it, we're still at war, troops are still dying, and the lies that got us into this war are still lies.

[MuseRider]

8. The Giver.

I see little compromise with Nancy. It is all or nothing, too bad she is apparently not on the side of the anti war or the progressive or the people, too bad indeed.

[shance]

6. Give us the ole RAZZLE DAZZLE Nan**** We know how you love the glitter and bright lights.

What was that famous quote of hers?

"If they had been homeless, they would have been arrested for loitering"

Such a compassionate humanitarian Nancy Pelosi, isn't she?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. "Democrats had been adamant.." And, those who believed them were proven stupid.

[warren pease]

11. An adamant democrat these days...

...is one who demands a first class seat on the flight to Marseilles for an official fact-finding mission to uncover the secrets of Cotes du Rhone reds, all to benefit the US wine industry, of course, although it's tough to write a cogent report from the back seat of a limo after sucking down the third liter of the afternoon.

Vive la Junket.


wp

[spanone]

9. i throw up my hands and my lunch with this congress

when do bu$h* & chenee compromise.....and why do the democrats protest at all? such a silly game.

[ck4829]

10. And that compromise will eventually mean that Bush gets 100%, Democrats get nothing

[DCKit]

12. "Roll over again Nancy and Daddy will give you a nummy." n/t