USNews: WH PR is in full force - trying to paint the Dems as delaying funds for the troops

[sabra]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_070403.htm

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White House Launches PR Offensive On Iraq Bill

The US News Political Bulletin has learned White House strategists are now pulling out all the stops to blame the Democratic majority in Congress for a potential delay in funding the Iraq war. The money is locked into competing supplemental appropriations bills from the House and Senate, and each one ties the funding to setting a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, which President Bush opposes. White House aides have adopted a new gambit -- referring to the number of days since Bush requested funding for the troops -- 56 today -- in an effort to keep up the pressure. Bush will also have lunch with American soldiers and their families Wednesday in California and give a speech there to put the Democrats on the hot seat even more. Bush advisers and their allies are using a similar set of talking points calculated to make the Democrats look wrong-headed and weak, such as: The nation has "only one commander in chief at a time"; U.S. troops don't need a "brigade of lawyers" meddling in the war by imposing military restrictions; Congress would be "mandating failure" if the Democratic legislation becomes law; and the only reason the legislation passed the House is because it was "loaded up with enticements" -- billions of dollars in pork-barrel projects that have nothing to do with Iraq. "He's determined to get the troops what they need," a White House spokesman told the Political Bulletin. "As an administration, you can expect us to be very vocal about all this."

[Demit]

1. I hope the Dems are gearing up to respond. "He's determined to get the troops what they need"?

Like body armor and enough rest before they go back? Like healing from their injuries first? My disgust with this little pissant in chief knows no bounds. I hope the Dems have their strategy well thought out & will stick to it.

[Dawgs]

2. Only one problem...

Most Americans agree with the Democrats.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. I agree, but when it comes to the so-called "pork barrel spending"

the Pukes are going to go to town.

From what I understand most of this so-called "pork" wasn't really pork, it was funding for people who really need it, but of course the corporate media wouldn't dare to point this out to Americans.

They might actually "lose" :sarcasm: their access to the half wits that spin and spin the Repuke lies....