Dave Obey slows war funding

[kpete]

Source: Politico

Dave Obey slows war funding

House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey said he will hold off on new Afghanistan war funding until there is some resolution of a long-delayed economic relief bill extending aid to states and the jobless as well as tax breaks for individuals and business.

With a July 4th Pentagon deadline looming, the chairman's new posture is a blow to the White House and more than ever, explicitly links war funding with liberal concerns over domestic priorities

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Obey has been central to the fight over education aid and, in an interview, drew a direct link between war funding and progress on domestic priorities.

He said he would withhold action on the war funds until there was some resolution on a major economic relief bill extending jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and popular tax breaks for individuals and businesses.








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[polichick]

1. Good - think where we'd be in this country if we didn't engage in unnecessary wars. k&r

[24601]

9. So you are in effect calling President Obama a liar for characterizing

Afghanistan as a necessary war? Smooth move - plays right into the hands of the repugs.

For the record, I'm supporting the President on this.

[polichick]

10. The TRUTH is what it is - these wars are unnecessary. nt

[UpInArms]

2. Eisenhower said:

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

[chill_wind]

3. That's a rather encouraging notion.

K & R.

[harkadog]

4. The war in Afghanistan is unwinable and is an expense which will destroy us.

The money should be cut off now not tomorrow and send the troops home.

[No Elephants]

5. With 1 trillion in minerals. the afghan war will pay for itself, maybe even

turn a profit, just like the Iraq War.

[Kolesar]

6. Does he look like a stroke damaged muscle control on half of his face? eom

[joe black]

7. No

He looks like an asshole.

[mvd]

8. Good for Obey standing up for what's right!

:thumbsup:

[midnight]

11. These is a great move by Obey. I wish I would of seen this earlier, because this

wonderful idea deserves many recommendations.