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“The legislation was passed by the Senate last week in a voice vote, and it now goes to President Obama for his signature.”
The Boston Globe says while the 308-114 vote is "an indication there is still support for President Obama's war strategy," there are "divisions developing even among top Democrats."
The New York Times reminds us of the context of yesterday’s vote: the Wikileaks leak. The vote “came after the leak of an archive of classified battlefield reports from Afghanistan that fueled new debate over the course of the war and whether President Obama’s counterinsurgency strategy could work. But Mr. Obama and top military officials said Tuesday that the disclosure of the documents should not force a rethinking of America’s commitment to the war. As Mr. Obama told reporters in the Rose Garden, ‘While I’m concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don’t reveal any issues that haven’t already informed our public debate on Afghanistan.’”
Welcome to Jersey... President Obama is making a pit stop at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J., Wednesday to talk about the economy -- and maybe nosh on a few sandwiches," the New York Daily News writes. The owner "said if Obama asks, he'll recommend the $8.30 Super Sub with five kinds of meat, including pressed ham, cappacola and proscuttini."
Conservatives can't help but criticize President Obama's appearance on The View.
Did you know Joe Arpaio's county has deported a quarter of all the illegal immigrants deported since 2007? AP reports: "Statistics obtained by The Associated Press show that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office was responsible for deportations or forced departure of 26,146 immigrants since 2007. That's about a quarter of the national total of 115,841 sent out of the U.S. by officers in 64 law enforcement agencies deputized to help enforce immigration laws, some since 2006, under the so-called 287(g) program."
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Yeah the repugnant ones are all for wasting taxpayer money killing nonchristians around the world but they didn't want to invest any money to help stimulate our Bushwhacked economy. The Democrats just don't have the political courage to push through more government stimulus and make a fight of it. Interesting that 102 Democrats and 12 dopes of nope voted against more war funding, even the dopes of nope are getting war spending fatigue.
It's funny how the Republicans can easily pass legislation that has killings involved, and yet when it comes to helping people they are against it.
Please notify the Democrats that there's a better way to draw down and end the war than to cut off funding. It doesn't make them look good; in fact, it seems as though they can't bring themselves to actually call for a quicker end to the war, so in passive-aggressive fashion, they elect to try and stop the money flow.
I am not a fan of this maneuver.
Since you know ALL about it how about enlighening the rest of us on how we can do that?
I never claimed to know everything. This is merely opinion.
To answer your question, abetter way would be to have discussions with the Commander-In-Chief, and let it be up to the Commander-In-Chief. Witholding funding for someone who does not answer to you only fosters dissent in the ranks.
Somebody needs to tell President Obama that his infomercial is a clear way to show how OUT OF TOUCH he and his administration is.
The very people who don't have Health Insurance also don't have COMPUTERS...
Just how do those who voted for the bill plan on paying for it? Reducing revenues won't work. In the past wars were financed through the sale of bonds to Americans, borrowning money from Americans (not Chinese) and by raising taxes. The same people who whine about spending too much or not being able to pay for this or that are the same ones who believe deficits don't matter if a country is at war. We defeated the Soviet Union by out spending them on war and weapons of war. Are we now going to outspend ourselves into oblivion?