Comments on: AP Gives Anti-War Dems Cover Over Ignoring Military Budget Debate http://www.bloggernews.net/110355 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Mon, 21 May 2012 08:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Curtis http://www.bloggernews.net/110355#comment-91368 Curtis Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:39:25 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/110355#comment-91368 "funding for the troops is presented like an average fight over tax money" Why shouldn't funding for troops be presented like a fight over tax money? That what it is -- tax money, right? Who wrote the Republicans a blank check to spend whatever they want on ill-advised, ill-planned, and poorly executed foreign adventures, anyway? Controlling the national pocket book is Congress's Constitutionally granted responsibility, and I'm glad their doing it. The White House sure seems to have not concept about limiting spending, so I'm glad someone is trying to do it. Why does Iraq get a blank check when <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Sep20/0,4670,CongressBridgeCollapse,00.html" rel="nofollow"> we don't even have the political will to pay for bridges back home?</a> “funding for the troops is presented like an average fight over tax money”

Why shouldn’t funding for troops be presented like a fight over tax money? That what it is — tax money, right?

Who wrote the Republicans a blank check to spend whatever they want on ill-advised, ill-planned, and poorly executed foreign adventures, anyway? Controlling the national pocket book is Congress’s Constitutionally granted responsibility, and I’m glad their doing it. The White House sure seems to have not concept about limiting spending, so I’m glad someone is trying to do it.

Why does Iraq get a blank check when we don’t even have the political will to pay for bridges back home?

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