when you consider the two news items (see below) side-by-side, they tell you pretty much everything you need to know about the republican Congress ...
maybe this is what they mean when they refer to the republican "party" ... it's a party to celebrate the US success in Iraq that gets pushed back year after year after year after year after year ... now it all makes sense ...
first, there's this one:
source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/washington/04victory.html“Tucked away in fine print in the military spending bill for this past year was a lump sum of $20 million to pay for a celebration in
‘for commemoration of success’ in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the NYT reports. “Not surprisingly, the money was not spent.” But in the spending bill approved last week, conservatives rolled the $20 million over into 2007.
and then, there's this one:
source:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20061003-104001-2200r.htm“Congress has set a 2007 termination date for the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction,” Stuart Bowen, “at the behest of the Bush administration, removing the source of a series of audit reports that have emboldened critics of the president’s war polices. Bowen has said post-war reconstruction planning in Iraq was “insufficient in both scope and implementation.”
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