Thursday, July 29, 2010
Put your budget cuts where your mouth is
Unless you are a House Republican, then you can flap your gums and pass all the gas you want but you are not going to mess with a Veterans Funding bill.
House Republicans who have spent months demanding spending cuts blanched Wednesday at their first opportunity to actually make them, instead joining Democrats in treating a bill to pay for veterans programs in 2011 as politically sacrosanct in an election year.It's easier to let Mitch The Chin screw the veterans.
The veterans measure is the first of a dozen spending bills for the upcoming 2011 budget year to come up for a vote. Democrats, meanwhile, were doing some ducking and weaving of their own to avoid time-consuming floor debates and politically difficult votes on other measures.
It's of little surprise that Democrats picked the Veterans Affairs bill as the first in the appropriations pile to bring to a vote. It passed by a 411-6 vote.
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