Friday, October 19, 2007
How Congress works
Every once in a while some genuine journalism slips into the mass of journamalism we are subjected to each day. One example is this item tucked away on page 19 of the Washington Post. It is good because it shows us that Rep David Obey has not forgotten us and how he will work to pay for Our Dear Embattled Leadr's Glorious Little War in our lifetime
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) hates this "misbegotten, stupid, ill-advised" Iraq war. He won't even consider President Bush's latest war funding request until next year. And he wants to tax Americans to pay for it.I support this tax because it is what Americans have done for every war that we have had prior to discovering how Republicans do it. We pay for it. Only a party of cowards, child molesters, wife beaters and tea room twinkies would want to burden our children to the Nth generation to pay for Dear Leader's private amusement.
The positions surprised many of his colleagues. But not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Obey's friend for decades.
"I went to Nancy a week before we did it, and I told her: 'Nancy, I'm gonna do two things. One of them you're gonna like, and one of them you're not," Obey said. He told her he wouldn't take up Bush's funding request for Iraq until next year. "And she said: 'I like that. What won't I like?' "
She doesn't like that war tax. "We don't go forward lightly when we're talking about a tax on all the American people," Pelosi said. No problem -- Obey will introduce the tax proposal anyway on Tuesday.
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