The $108 Billion Dollar Question
Since the House Democrats can’t force the United States to withdraw from Iraq, they’re going to do the next best thing: spend the $108 billion dollar war request to pass billions of dollars in election-year domestic spending.
“I reject the president’s view that all this supplemental should be is for spending money overseas,” House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, said yesterday. “We believe Americans have needs.
Some of the programs in dire need for funding is the Hurricane Katrina relief and the extension of unemployment benefits. However, according to President Goerge Bush, he will veto any supplemental war-funding bill that exceeds his $108 billion spending limit or that micromanages the war or “ties the hands of our commanders.”
This has a lot of Democrats in rage. According to the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, the President, “seems to think that he can issue pronouncements like the great Yoda and that the American people and the Congress will comply.”