Sunday, January 07, 2007
Pelosi shows her grit
On "Face The Nation" today Nancy Pelosi showed that she has been listening to the vast majority of Americans who are tired of reinforcing Bush's failure in Iraq. Without tipping her hand, she made it clear that Our Dear Leader's constant demands for more money without any accounting for it are over and done with.
"If the president chooses to escalate the war, in his budget request, we want to see a distinction between what is there to support the troops who are there now," she said in an interview broadcast Sunday.At the same time, Sen. Joseph " Joe Plugs" Biden attempted to undercut the upstart Speaker of the House by saying "Biden, D-Del., said cutting off funds was not an option." But you really have to have your head deeply buried in the sand or elsewhere to miss the need for what Pelosi is recommending.
"The American people and the Congress support those troops. We will not abandon them. But if the president wants to add to this mission, he is going to have to justify it and this is new for him because up until now the Republican Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards, no conditions," said Pelosi, D-Calif.
"This war cost a trillion dollars if it ended now," Pelosi said. "But more important than that, the lives lost, the casualties sustained, the lost reputation in the world, and the damage to our military readiness. For these and other reasons we have to say to the president, in your speech ... we want to see a plan in a new direction because the direction you've been taking us in has not been successful.About time somebody asked that question.
"So when the bill comes ... it will receive the harshest scrutiny. What do we really need to protect our troops? What is there for an escalation? What is the justification for that?"
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