So the democrats were going to come into town and take care of things. Make things better. Get ri of the pork barrel politics and stop the bleeding. Regardless of your view on the war in Iraq, do any of the following have anything to do with the war in…

“With our vote this week, we’re helping our troops, protecting our veterans, and fighting to end the waste, fraud and abuse,” said Hodes, delivering the Democrats’ weekly radio address.
Here is a reminder of the waste in that bi…

The Democrats passed a bill laden with pork to pull out of Iraq. BackTalk does a simple word count to see how serious the Democrats are about the war. Number of words dealing with peanut storage costs? 101. Number of times Al-Qaeda is mentioned? 1.
Mi…

Powerline Forum had these shots of the military preparing for the inevitable budget cuts from Nancy and the Gang. Considering the embarrassing charade that took place on Capitol Hill this week, it is amazing these guys can have any sense of humor at a…

So much for being pro-military and an opponent of pork — Nick Lampson followed the wishes of the DemocratICK Party leadership and against the sentiment of CD22 and his own promises to the voters by lending his support to a…

Pelosi was able to add enough pork (cough…earmarks…cough) to push through a bill that was, as Bush described, nothing but an act of political theater.  House Democrats called for a new direction in Iraq on Friday, passing a measure ordering…

Michelle Malkin has a very good post up about the House Democrat bill being passed to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, it is loaded up with all kinds of pork since Nancypants had to bribe a number of her party members to get them…

If it gets thruogh the Senate and the President vetoes it, then the Democrats will look at those that got them elected and say” we tried”…… will that be enough for the Democrats to keep their base happy?

House Democrats barely passed this bill:
A sharply divided House voted Friday to order President Bush to bring combat troops home from Iraq next year, a victory for Democrats in an epic war-powe…

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I knew it would only take a wee bit of digging before I could find a comprehensive list of all the pork fat the Democrats had to slather onto their unpalatable ‘pull-out’ bill to make some of their less beholding-to-the-nutroots

The House passed a bill today demanding that U.S. troops leave Iraq by the end of August 2008. The vote was mostly along partisan lines, with only 2 Republicans voting in favor and 14 Democrats voting against (plus a number who voted “present” or not…

The disgusting Democrats are kvelling over giving aid and comfort to the enemy, but President Bush came out firing, and rightly so.

Liberals Relent on Iraq War Funding House Likely to Pass Bill With Pullout DateBy Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post Staff Writer Liberal opposition to a $124 billion war spending bill broke last night, when leaders of the antiwar Out of Iraq

That’s precisely what the liberal and Blue Dog Democrats have done in one of the most disgraceful moves ever taken by an American Congress. Plenty from Michelle at link.Here are some examples of what the Democrats consider ‘urgent’ needs that

Here’s the text of the House Surrender Bill that just passed.
It includes:
$140,000,000 to pay farmers for livestock and fruit destroyed in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
$25,000,000 to “growers and first handlers, as defined by the Secretary…