What are your thoughts on 2008?

Jarod said:
You are citing to what appears to be an OP-Ed piece. It is very poorly written and devoid of any sources or vareafiable facts.
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You mean that you can't verify that the contingency funds were spent?

Reading the whole of the article it actually had repercussions. One Senator, after finding out the funds were depleted, had to take a bill off the table.

Of course, you also find out that the article was written in the 19th Century.
 
After months of impasse, Congress has considerable work to try to finish in just a few weeks, including financing nearly every federal agency...

“Congressional Democrats have neglected their duty on the 12 spending bills, they’re threatening to neglect their duty to our troops in the field and to our security at home, and they’re also about to slap millions of Americans with a middle-class tax hike better known as the A.M.T.,” said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, referring to the alternative minimum tax.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/washington/03cong.html?ref=us
 
Just one of the 12 spending bills has been signed into law, and Democrats are planning a giant, 11-bill package that's $10.6 billion more than the $933 billion Bush said he'd accept. The president opposes catch-all spending legislation and has issued veto threats on 10 of the 12 bills in the House and on five of the 12 in the Senate.

``If they send me an irresponsible spending bill, I will veto it,'' Bush said.

Bush also is demanding the Congress pass legislation for middle-income families to protect them from being bounced into higher tax brackets under the alternative minimum tax.

Failure to act soon would delay delivery of about $75 billion in tax refund checks next year and would provoke ``an additional tax increase'' on 25 million individuals, he said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZQrRb_QODvE&refer=us
 
So Congressional Republicans who refused to pass any spending bills after their resounding defeat in the 2006 elections are criticizing the Democrats for not passing spending bills? Do I have that right?

Hilarious.
 
Dungheap said:
So Congressional Republicans who refused to pass any spending bills after their resounding defeat in the 2006 elections are criticizing the Democrats for not passing spending bills? Do I have that right?

Hilarious.
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ROTFLMAO!
 
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said... If additional war funding is not approved by Congress "the military would cease operations at all Army bases by mid-February of next year," Gates told reporters. Base closures could lead to the layoff of about 100,000 government employees and as many contractors

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/15/iraq.war.funding/
 
WRL said:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said... If additional war funding is not approved by Congress "the military would cease operations at all Army bases by mid-February of next year," Gates told reporters. Base closures could lead to the layoff of about 100,000 government employees and as many contractors

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/15/iraq.war.funding/
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I think Bush should do what he can to work with Congress to avoid this!
 
The government didn't shut down, people didn't get fired because Republicans didn't pass any spending bills, they fully funded the government to cover their time in the majority, are you really complaining Republicans didn't pass 2008 spending bills in 2006?
 
WRL said:
The government didn't shut down, people didn't get fired because Republicans didn't pass any spending bills, they fully funded the government to cover their time in the majority, are you really complaining Republicans didn't pass 2008 spending bills in 2006?
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Well, I hope Bush will work with them and be flexable about his "goals" in Iraq to get some funding accomplished.
 
WRL said:
The government didn't shut down, people didn't get fired because Republicans didn't pass any spending bills, they fully funded the government to cover their time in the majority, are you really complaining Republicans didn't pass 2008 spending bills in 2006?
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2007 you twit.
 
WRL said:
They have literally held 30 seconds sessions, and called it a day.
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That was during the holiday and was done to prevent Bush from making recess appointments. Typically, the Senate would be in recess during that period and would not be in session at all.
 
Geez you people are gullible. The Army won't shut down. It is just rhetoric to get them to pass a spending bill.
 
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