{"id":3838,"date":"2007-11-14T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/reid-vows-not-to-fund-the-war.html"},"modified":"2007-11-14T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T11:23:00","slug":"reid-vows-not-to-fund-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/reid-vows-not-to-fund-the-war.html","title":{"rendered":"Reid vows not to fund the war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, he might as well have vowed it because this<\/a> comes close to doing it:<\/p>\n

A budget dispute erupted into a full-scale battle Tuesday as President Bush vetoed the Democrats’ top-priority domestic spending bill and the party’s Senate leader threatened to withhold war funding if the president does not agree to pull out of Iraq.
\nThe long-anticipated clash came to a head as Bush rejected a $606 billion bill to fund education, health and labor programs, complaining that it is too expensive and is larded with pork. Within hours, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) declared that Bush will not get more money to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year unless he accepts a plan to complete troop withdrawals by the end of next year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(via<\/a>)
\nOur troops are not a political football that our politicians use to get their pork. It is all kinds of wrong that he would use them in this way. I hope his phone is wringing off the hook. And our candidates better be quick to jump on this arrogant overreach and denounce it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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